A Mind at a Time
By Mel Levine
(Simon & Schuster, Paperback, 9780743202237, 352pp.)
Publication Date: December 31, 2002
Other Editions of This Title: Audio Cassette - Abridged (July 1, 2002), Compact Disc - Abridged (July 1, 2002), Hardcover (March 26, 2002)
Categories: Child Development, Education, Learning Styles
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"Different minds learn differently," writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known learning experts and pediatricians in America today. Some students are strong in certain areas and some are strong in others, but no one is equally capable in all. Yet most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy. As a result, many children struggle because their learning patterns don't fit the way they are being taught.
In his #1 New York Times bestseller A Mind at a Time, Dr. Levine shows parents and those who care for children how to identify these individual learning patterns, explaining how they can strengthen a child's abilities and either bypass or help overcome the child's weaknesses, producing positive results instead of repeated frustration and failure.
Consistent progress can result when we understand that not every child can do equally well in every type of learning and begin to pay more attention to individual learning patterns -- and individual minds -- so that we can maximize children's success and gratification in life. In A Mind at a Time Dr. Levine shows us how.
Dr. Mel Levine is a professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School and the director of the university's Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning. He is also the founder and cochair of All Kinds of Minds, a nonprofit institute that develops products and programs to help parents, teachers, clinicians, and children deal with differences in learning. A Rhodes scholar and graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Levine lives on a farm in Rougemont, North Carolina, with his wife, Bambi, and many animals.
Howard GardnerProfessor in Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and author of The Disciplined Mind and Frames of MindA wide-ranging exploration of the myriad ways in which young minds differ, coupled with vivid and useful recommendations about developing those minds to the fullest.
Edward Hallowell, M.D.instructor, Harvard Medical School; director, The Hallowell Center, Sudbury, Massachusetts; author of Driven to Distraction and Human Moments.A Mind at a Time continues Mel Levine's enormously valuable lifework of helping children find success....Brimming with intelligence, humor, wit, and originality...this is a groundbreaking and useful book.
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