Scott H Young
Writer on learning and author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything; known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
Beginning to Read by Marilyn Jager Adams
Marilyn Jager Adams's extensive review of the literature concluded essentially the same thing in 1994.
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy by Judith Beck
I recently reviewed Beck's book, which is written as a practical guide for therapists implementing CBT.
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Creativity in Science by Dean Simonton
This book surveys theories of creativity, contrasting four competing explanations: expertise, genius, society, and chance, in offering a model for how creativity works. Simonton's work provides a nice hybrid between the purely anecdotal work of biographers and the data-driven work of experimental scientists.
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How Languages are Learned by Patsy Lightbown and Nina Spada
To that end, I read a few different books from the field of second language acquisition (SLA) over the summer, and even wrote a review of How Languages are Learned.
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How We Reason by Philip Johnson-Laird
I had read Johnson-Laird's original work, Mental Models, last year. It was nice to see an in-depth follow-up on how the theory has developed in the subsequent two decades.
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Psych by Paul Bloom
Despite having read a few bookshelves worth of academic psychology texts, I enjoyed Yale professor Paul Bloom's survey of the field. Because understanding psychology cannot be divorced from understanding its history, I enjoyed Bloom's birds-eye view of the field from the past to the present day.
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Social Learning Theory by Albert Bandura
Social Learning Theory is a difficult book to summarize, but it has profoundly impacted my thinking.
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The Republic by Plato
To my surprise, I really enjoyed The Republic. It is both well-written and weird, which puts it above many other famous philosophical books that are too obscure to be easily read.
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The Science of Learning Physics by José Mestre and Jennifer Docktor
Mestre and Docktor tackle this challenge by reviewing the large body of literature on learning physics. I plan on writing a full review of their book, which I found to be a helpful summary.
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Why Knowledge Matters by E. D. Hirsch
In this 2016 book, Hirsch presents a sweeping curriculum change in French schools as evidence that misguided educational theories are undermining our children's learning.
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