Beyond Smarter: Mediated Learning and the Brain's Capacity for Change - Tapa dura

A summary of the work of Reuven Feuerstein. Feuerstein and his co-authors define intelligence as a dynamic force that drives the human organism to change the structure of thinking in order to answer needs. They describe the specific skills of the three stages of thinking - the input and data-gathering stage; the processing stage; and the output stage - and show how student thinking can stall at any of these stages and how intentional mediation can help students restructure their thinking and improve their ability to learn.

Reuven Feuerstein was the founder and director of the Feuerstein Institute (formerly ICELP) and professor of psychology in Bar-Ilan University's School of Education (Ramat-Gan, Israel), and a Nobel Prize nominee. Louis H. Falik is emeritus professor of counseling at San Francisco State University and a senior scholar at the Feuerstein Institute. Refael Feuerstein is chairman of the Feuerstein Institute. Their books include Beyond Smarter: Mediated Learning and the Brain's Capacity for Change and A Think-Aloud and Talk-Aloud Approach to Building Language: Overcoming Disability, Delay, and Deficiency . Refael Feuerstein is vice-chairman of the International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential (ICELP) in Jerusalem, Israel. Louis H. Falik is Emeritus Professor of Counseling at San Francisco State University and a senior scholar at ICELP.