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Daniel T
Daniel T
Willingham
Nationality American
Scientific career
Website www
.danielwillingham
.com (http://www.dani
elwillingham.com/)
Books
Cognition: The Thinking Animal (4
editions: 2001, 2004, 2007, 2019:
Prentice Hall, Cambridge University
Press)
Current Directions in Cognitive Science
(Ed., with Barbara Spellman: 2005:
Prentice Hall)
Why Don't Students Like School?: A
Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions
About How the Mind Works and What It
Means for the Classroom (2 editions
2009, 2020: Jossey-Bass)
When Can You Trust the Experts?: How to
Tell Good Science from Bad in Education
(2012: Jossey-Bass)
Raising Kids Who Read: What Parents
and Teachers Can Do (2015: Jossey-
Bass)
The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach
to Understanding How the Mind Reads
(2017: Jossey-Bass)
Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is
Hard and How You Can Make It Easy
(2023: Gallery Books)
Articles
Students Remember. . . What They Think
About. American Educator, Summer
2003. (http://www.aft.org/newspubs/pe
riodicals/ae/summer2003/willingham.cf
m)
Reframing the Mind. Education Next,
Summer 2004. (http://educationnext.or
g/reframing-the-mind/)
The Myth of Learning Styles. Change,
September–October 2010. (http://www.
changemag.org/Archives/Back%20Issu
es/September-October%202010/the-myt
h-of-learning-full.html)
Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to
Teach? American Educator, Summer
2007. (http://www.readingrockets.org/ar
ticle/21409/)
How educational theories can use
neuroscientific data. Mind, Brain, and
Education, 1, 140–149. (With John
Lloyd) (http://www.danielwillingham.co
m/uploads/5/0/0/7/5007325/willingha
m__lloyd_2007.pdf)
21st century skills: The challenges
ahead. Educational Leadership, #67, 16–
21. (With Andrew Rotherham) (http://ww
w.ascd.org/publications/educational-lea
dership/sept09/vol67/num01/21st-Cent
ury-Skills@-The-Challenges-Ahead.asp
x)
Unlocking the Science of How Kids
Think. EducationNext, Summer 2018. (ht
tps://www.educationnext.org/unlocking-
science-how-kids-think-new-proposal-for
-reforming-teacher-education/)
References
1. Chabris, Chris (April 27, 2009). "How to
Wake Up Slumbering Minds" (https://www.
wsj.com/articles/SB12407900106375751
5) . The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved
2012-07-16.
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