Word: reconstructing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Bruner sees it, mere "mastery of facts and techniques" in education is a dead end. The child learns only part of the story, and unconnected facts have "a pitiably short half-life in memory." Indeed, the only facts worth knowing are those that reconstruct details when needed, e.g., basic scientific formulas. So too, the child must be given the kind of facts that lure him onward. It is one thing to show him a black dot on the map called Chicago. It is altogether different to teach him the basics of social and economic geography-and then give...
...recent books from both sides of the Channel about the greatest battle of the age of sail (Trafalgar, by Oliver Warner; Trafalgar, by Rene Maine), Dudley Pope, 34, British yachtsman, newsman, and merchant mariner, has written the best. In it he tries, and for the most part successfully, to reconstruct the historic engagement as it was seen by both officers and men, not only of the British Navy but of the Combined Fleets of France and Spain...