Envisioning Process as Content: Toward a Renaissance Curriculum by Arthur L. Cos

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""How will the traditional skillset of the industrial era have to be expanded for successful workers and citizens in the knowledge era? How must the traditional education process be transformed? Two cornerstones to the new system of education will be elevating the learning process to comparable standing with the content of what is learned, and making high-level thinking and learning skills, like systems thinking and collaborative learning, as important as traditional skills of reductionistic thinking and individual problem solving. These could indeed be two elements of a 'thought revolution in education."" From the Foreword by Peter M. Senge, Center for Organizational Learning Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Envisioning Process as Content" proposes a radical revision of curriculum, the heart and soul of teaching, too often an overlooked component of school reform and restructuring. The chapter authors of this comprehensive study, all leaders in their respective fields, establish a new framework for our learning communities that fosters a desire to see life as an intellectual and personal quest for knowledge and meaning. Teaching specific disciplines, such as language arts, math, or social studies, reinforces the all-important teaching of processes and skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, information processing, and lifelong learning. The authors explore in detail the dynamics of shifting the primary focus so that the content becomes the vehicle for teaching the process, resulting in a greater mastery of the discipline. This volume will help you: Reconsider specific disciplines as vehicles for teaching processes Link processes and content Enhance student learningthrough process-centered teaching Create outcomes that ensure all students have learned to think "Envisioning Process as Content" is the first volume of a trilogy addressing the curriculum needs for the 21st century. Written for school administrators, teachers, staff developers, curriculum specialists, and students and faculty of teacher education, the series provides new insight about the role of restructuring the curriculum in the school.

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This innovative book on school reform addresses directly the curriculum needs for the twenty-first century. The contributors share a new vision for schools that fosters a desire to learn about self, others and the world and to view life as an intellectual and personal quest for knowledge and meaning. The book presents a strong case for teaching process - including critical thinking, problem-solving, information-processing and life-long learning skills - which evidence shows can be more effective than the teaching of specific disciplines.

Author Biography

Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D., is an Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Sacramento. He is Co-Founder of the Institute for Habits of Mind and Co-founder of the Center for Cognitive Coaching. He served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, and an assistant superintendent for instruction in the Office of the Sacramento County Superintendent of Schools and as the director of educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He has made presentations and conducted workshops in all 50 states as well as on six of the seven continents Active in many professional organizations, Art served as president of the California Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and was the National President of Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, from 1988 to 1989. He was the recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Urban Alliance in 2010.

Table of Contents

Foreword - Peter M SengeTowards Renaissance Curriculum - Arthur L Costa and Rosemarie M LiebmannAn Idea Whose Time Has ComeDifficulties with the Disciplines - Arthur L Costa and Rosemarie M LiebmannShifting Paradigms from Either/Or to Both/And - Arthur L Costa and Rosemarie M LiebmannCurriculum - Arthur L CostaA Decision-Making ProcessHow Process Is Connected with the Human Spirit - Rosemarie M LiebmannProcess as Content - Nancy SkerrittReading as a Thinking Process - Ruth LorigMathematics [u/s]Is Process Education - Carol LloydTeaching the Process of Aesthetic Knowing and Representation - James Henderson and David DeesProblem-Based Learning and Critical Thinking in Teaching for Science Literacy - Robert SwartzPaper Thinking - Peg LuidensThe Process of WritingLearning Creative Process - Louis T Coulson and Alison StricklandA Basic Life SkillHistorical Inquiry - Merv Akin and Martha I TurnerAbove the World - Virginia RojasWhen Process Is Content in Foreign Language TeachingHumor as Process - John DyerAfterword - Lou Rubin

Details ISBN0803963106 Short Title ENVISIONING PROCESS AS CONTENT Pages 280 Publisher Corwin Press Language English ISBN-10 0803963106 ISBN-13 9780803963108 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 375.001 Illustrations Yes Year 1996 Publication Date 1996-01-31 Imprint Corwin Press Inc Subtitle Toward a Renaissance Curriculum Country of Publication United States Edited by Arthur L. Costa Author Arthur L. Costa Place of Publication Thousand Oaks DOI 10.1604/9780803963108 UK Release Date 1997-02-19 NZ Release Date 1997-02-19 US Release Date 1997-02-19 AU Release Date 1997-02-18 We've got this

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