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Book Review: Spatial Learning Strategies: Techniques, Applications, and Related Issues

Book Review: Spatial Learning Strategies: Techniques, Applications, and Related Issues Australian Journal of Education, Vol. 30, No.1, 1986, 107-116 Book Reviews Spatial Learning Strategies: Techniques, Applica­ tions, and Related Issues Charles D. Holley and Donald F. Dansereau, (Eds.) Orlando, Florida: Academic Press, 1984. Despite the electronic revolution, learning from text remains a crucial skill in our civilization. Yet, apart from the help that young children receive to acquire the mechanics of decoding letters in early reading programs, it is a skill that our educational system neglects, trusting that it will develop without deliberate intervention. All are left to learn it to their own natural degree. Those who ac­ quire the knack succeed at school; those who miss out, fail. It is remarkable that we have been so fatalistic about so vital a skill. A cynic might suggest that it would be a mistake to meddle with such a convenient sieve for separating the educable sheep from the worthless goats of our population, but there is now an increasing number of people who are trying to improve the general standard of learning. Their unifying banner is the word 'strategies'. The term refers to broad and powerful skills that are essentially independent of content, such as generalizing and deducing, maintaining atten­ http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

Book Review: Spatial Learning Strategies: Techniques, Applications, and Related Issues

White, Richard T.
Australian Journal of Education , Volume 30 (1): 2 – Apr 1, 1986
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SAGE
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© 1986 Australian Council for Educational Research
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0004-9441
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2050-5884
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10.1177/000494418603000107
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Australian Journal of Education, Vol. 30, No.1, 1986, 107-116 Book Reviews Spatial Learning Strategies: Techniques, Applica­ tions, and Related Issues Charles D. Holley and Donald F. Dansereau, (Eds.) Orlando, Florida: Academic Press, 1984. Despite the electronic revolution, learning from text remains a crucial skill in our civilization. Yet, apart from the help that young children receive to acquire the mechanics of decoding letters in early reading programs, it is a skill that our educational system neglects, trusting that it will develop without deliberate intervention. All are left to learn it to their own natural degree. Those who ac­ quire the knack succeed at school; those who miss out, fail. It is remarkable that we have been so fatalistic about so vital a skill. A cynic might suggest that it would be a mistake to meddle with such a convenient sieve for separating the educable sheep from the worthless goats of our population, but there is now an increasing number of people who are trying to improve the general standard of learning. Their unifying banner is the word 'strategies'. The term refers to broad and powerful skills that are essentially independent of content, such as generalizing and deducing, maintaining atten­

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Published: Apr 1, 1986

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