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Elementary Education and Teaching

1954

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A Study Of How Children Can Be Taught To Think Better, Josephine Brown Williams Jan 1954

A Study Of How Children Can Be Taught To Think Better, Josephine Brown Williams

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This study was concerned with ways to improve the thinking of upper elementary school children. An attempt was made to analyze classroom situations which do and do not help children learn to think, and to make suggestions for developing skills in thinking. Criteria were developed by the writer and were presented to upper elementary classroom teachers to help them evaluate themselves in teaching children to think. This problem was the study of how classroom teachers can teach children to think better.

If the democratic way of life in the United States is to survive and the world tomorrow is to …