The Informed Vision: Essays on Learning and Human Nature
Hawkins, David
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Hawkins shows how science and mathematics can become powerful vehicles for children’s curiosity rather than dry subjects to be memorized. In essays such as “The Informed Vision” and “Messing About in Science,” he describes rich classroom scenes in which children play with pendulums, water, light, and air, gradually building their own intuitions about the physical world. Other essays, including “Childhood and the Education of Intellectuals” and “On Understanding the Understanding of Children,” ask why our culture invests so little intellectual energy in early childhood and what it would mean to take children’s thinking seriously.
Throughout the book, Hawkins is in conversation with John Dewey, Jean Piaget, Kant, and other major thinkers, but always returns to concrete questions: How do teachers balance structure and freedom? What kind of science education helps people feel at home in a technological world rather than alienated by it? How can schools cultivate genuine agency, rationality, and aesthetic experience in children’s learning, rather than mere obedience and routine?
This book will appeal to teacher educators, classroom teachers (especially in elementary science and math), progressive educators, homeschoolers, and anyone interested in the philosophical foundations of education. Readers who admire Dewey, Piaget, or contemporary “inquiry-based” and “child-centered” approaches will find in Hawkins a thoughtful, often provocative guide whose insights remain strikingly relevant.
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