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Routledge Education Author of the Month April 2011: Alan H. Schoenfeld

Throughout his research career, Alan Schoenfeld has been pursuing the holy grail of How We Think - the question of how and why people make the decisions they do in the midst of complex activities such as teaching and medical practice (not to mention cooking!). He says he's finally nailed the theory, and his new book lays it out in some detail. The book offers detailed analyses of teaching, a doctor-patient consultation, and applications such as a characterization of teachers' developmental trajectories.

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Schoenfeld, who holds the Elizabeth and Edward Conner Chair in Education at Berkeley and is also a member of Berkeley's mathematics department, has served as President of the American Educational Research Association and Vice President of the National Academy of Education. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Laureate of the education honor society Kappa Delta Pi. A mathematician by training, he got interested in educational research because he wanted to do something useful, and to introduce students and teachers to the joys of mathematical problem solving. He thought he'd dip his toe in the waters of educational research - and 35 years later, he's still swimming in them.

Over the course of his career Schoenfeld has directed projects concerned with problem solving, assessment, teachers' professional development, and equity. He has written or edited 22 books, including Mathematical Thinking and Problem Solving, Cognitive Science and Mathematics Education, and How We Think; he has published nearly 200 articles. Schoenfeld was lead author for grades 9-12 of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. He was a founding editor of Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education, and served as associate editor of Cognition and Instruction. Schoenfeld is editor for the Routledge series Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning, which contains 50 volumes devoted to unpacking what it means to think, act, and teach mathematically.
 

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    A Theory of Goal-Oriented Decision Making and its Educational Applications

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    Teachers try to help their students learn. But why do they make the particular teaching choices they do? What resources do they draw upon? What accounts for the success or failure of their efforts? In How We Think, esteemed scholar and mathematician, Alan H. Schoenfeld, proposes a groundbreaking...

    Published October 4th 2010 by Routledge

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    Published August 31st 1994 by Routledge

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    This volume supports the belief that a revised and advanced science education can emerge from the convergence and synthesis of several current scientific and technological activities including examples of research from cognitive science, social science, and other discipline-based educational...

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  4. Cognitive Science and Mathematics Education

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