Listed below are some of the resources that are referenced in the book. Books are linked to the publishers’ websites or to Amazon or Google Books. Websites are hot linked. In regard to articles, only those for which their full texts are available are listed.

WEBSITES, APPS, SOFTWARE

The CoRT Method of Teaching Thinking Skills. Edward de Bono Foundation

Crayon Physics

Metropolitan Museum of Art’s MET KIDS

Simple coding programs:   ScratchJr (5-7 year-olds) and Scratch (8+);  Tynker (7+);  Kodable  (5-8);  Botley the Coding Robot and Code & Go Robot Mouse Activity Set (5+); Pre-reader Express (4-8) and other curricula from Code.org.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Henkes, Kevin. 2006. Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse. New York: Greenwillow Books.

Henkes, Kevin. 2006. Lilly’s Big Day. New York: Greenwillow Books.

Lionni, Leo. (1963) 2011. Swimmy. 50th Anniversary edition. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers.

Lionni, Leo. 1967. Frederick. New York: Pantheon.

Lionni, Leo. (1975) 2006. A Color of His Own. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers.

Pickney, Jerry. 2009. The Lion and the Mouse. New York: Little, Brown.

Sendak, Maurice. 1963. Where the Wild Things Are. New York: Harper & Row.

Seuss, Dr. (1940) 2013. Horton Hatches the Egg. New York: Random House.

Seuss, Dr. (1954). 2013. Horton Hears a Who! New York: Random House.

Shannon, David. 1998. No, David! New York: Blue Sky Press.

Turner, Glennette Tilley. 2016. An Apple for Harriet Tubman. Park Ridge, IL: Albert Whitman and Company.

 

BOOKS

Bloom, B. S., M. D. Engelhart, E. J. Furst, W. H. Hill, and D. R. Krathwohl. 1956. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Categorization of Educational Goals. Handbook I: Cognitive Domain. New York: David McKay Company.

Bodrova, Elena, and Deborah J. Leong. 2007. Tools of the Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. Free full text version of the first edition is available here as a pdf file: Tools of Mind 1st edition

Brannon, E.M., and J. Park, eds. 2015. “Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Mathematical and Numerical Understanding.” In Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition, edited by Roi Cohen Kadosh and Ann Dowker, 203-13. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Celli, Lynne M., and Nicholas D. Young. 2014. Learning Style Perspectives: Impact in the Classroom. Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing.

Chomsky, Noam. 1965. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Covington, M. V., R. S. Crutchfield, and L B. Davies. 1966. The Productive Thinking Program. Columbus, OH: Merrill.

Daly, Lisa, and Miriam Beloglovsky. 2014. Loose Parts: Inspiring Play in Young Children. St. Paul, MN: Redleaf Press.

Dehaene, S. 2011. Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics. Rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dyer, Frank, Thomas Martin, and William Meadowcroft. 1910. Edison: His Life and Inventions. Vol. 1. New York: Harper & Brothers.

Elango, Sneha, Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman, and Andrés Hojman. 2016. “Early Childhood Education.” In Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, Volume 2, edited by Robert. A. Moffitt , 235–97. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Feuerstein, Reuven, Refael S. Feuerstein, and Louis H. Falik. 2010. Beyond Smarter: Mediated Learning and the Brain’s Capacity to Change. New York: Teachers College Press.

Gardner, Howard. 2011. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. 3rd ed. New York: Basic Books.

Gopnik, Alison. 2016. The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship between Parents and Children. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux.

Greene, Joshua. 2013. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap between Us and Them. New York: Penguin Press

Gregorc, A. F. 1984. The Mind Styles Model: Theory, Principles, and Applications. Columbia, CT: Gregorc Associates, Inc.

Haden, C. A., T. Cohen., D. Uttal, and M. Marcus. 2016. “Building Learning: Narrating and Transferring Experiences in a Children’s Museum.” In Cognitive Development in Museum Settings: Relating Research and Practice, edited by D. M. Sobel and J. J. Jipson, 84–103. New York: Routledge.

Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Laura E. Berk, and Dorothy G. Singer. 2009. A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool: Presenting the Evidence. New York: Oxford University Press.

Inhelder, B., and Jean Piaget. 1958. The Growth of Logical Thinking from Childhood to Adolescence: An Essay on the Construction of Formal Operational Structures. New York: Basic Books.

Kahneman, Daniel. 2011. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Katz, Lilian. 2015.Lively Minds:  Distinctions Between Academic versus Intellectual Goals for Young Children. Washington, DC: Defending the Early Years.

Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi. 2010. “Examining the Influence of Culture on Critical Thinking in Higher Education.” PhD diss., Victoria University of Wellington, NZ.

Maslow, Abraham H. 1966. The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance. New York: Harper Collins.

Pritchard, Alan. 2017. Ways of Learning: Learning Theories for the Classroom. 4th ed. London: Routledge.

Rayner, S., and E. Cools, eds. 2011. Style Differences in Cognition, Learning, and Management: Theory, Research, and Practice. New York: Taylor & Francis Group

Robson, Sue. 2012. Developing Thinking and Understanding in Young Children: An Introduction for Students. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Saifer, Steffen. 2017. Practical Solutions to Practically Every Problem: The Survival Guide for Early Childhood Professionals. 3rd ed. St. Paul, MN: Redleaf Press.

Saifer, Steffen, Keisha Edwards, Debbie Ellis, Lena Ko, and Amy Stuczynski. 2011. Culturally Responsive Standards-Based Teaching: Classroom to Community and Back. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de. 2003. Wisdom of the Sands. Mattituck, NY: Amereon Press.

Saracho, Olivia, ed. 2017. Cognitive Style in Early Education. London: Routledge.

Siegler, R. S., and M. W. Alibali. 2005. Children’s Thinking. 4th ed. New York: Pearson.

Swartz, Robert J., Arthur L. Costa, Barry K. Beyer, Rebecca Reagan, and Bena Kallick. 2010. Thinking-Based Learning: Promoting Quality Student Achievement in the 21st Century. New York: Teachers College Press.

Vygotsky, Lev. 1978. “The Role of Play in Development.” In Mind in Society by Lev Vygotsky, 92–104. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Zhang, Li-Fang, Robert Sternberg, and Stephen Rayner, eds. 2012. Handbook of Intellectual Styles Preferences in Cognition, Learning, and Thinking. New York, NY: Springer.

 

ARTICLES & REPORTS

Bonawitz, E. B., P. Shafto, H. Gweon, N. D. Goodman, E. S. Spelke, and L. Schulz. 2011. “The Double-Edged Sword of Pedagogy: Instruction Limits Spontaneous Exploration and Discovery.” Cognition 120 (3): 322–33.

Burgoyne, Alexander P., Giovanni Sala, Ferand Gobet, Brooke N. Macnamara, Guillermo Campitelli, and David Z. Hambrick. 2016. “The Relationship between Cognitive Ability and Chess Skill – A Comprehensive Meta-analysis” Intelligence 59 (2016): 72-83.

Center for Public Education. 2007. “What Research Says about the Value of Homework: Research Review.” Center for Public Education.

Cimpian, A., and E. Salomon. 2014. “The Inherence Heuristic: An Intuitive Means of Making Sense of the World, and a Potential Precursor to Psychological Essentialism.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37:461–527.

Clements, Douglas H., and Julie Sarama. 2014. “Play, Mathematics, and False Dichotomies.” Preschool Matters Today (blog). National Institute for Early Education Research. March 3. 

Collins, Robyn. 2014. “Skills for the 21st Century: Teaching Higher-Order Thinking.” Curriculum & Leadership Journal 12 (14).

Goodwin, Bryan. 2017. “Research Matters / Critical Thinking Won’t Develop through Osmosis.” Educational Leadership 74 (5): 80–81.

Gopnik, Alison. 2016. “What Babies Know about Physics and Foreign Languages.” New York Times Sunday Review: Opinion. July 30.

Hamlin, J. K., G. E. Newman, and K. Wynn. 2009. “Eight-Month-Old Infants Infer Unfulfilled Goals Despite Ambiguous Physical Evidence.” Infancy 14 (5): 579–90.

Hamlin, J. K., and K. Wynn. 2011. “Young Infants Prefer Prosocial to Antisocial Others.” Cognitive Development 26 (1): 30–39.

Hamlin, J. K., K. Wynn, and P. Bloom. 2007. “Social Evaluation by Preverbal Infants” Nature 450 (7169): 557–59.

Hamlin, J. K., K. Wynn, and P. Bloom. 2010. “Three-Month-Olds Show a Negativity Bias in their Social Evaluations.” Developmental Science 13 (6): 923–29.

Higgins, S., E. Hall, V. Baumfield, and D. Moseley. 2005. “A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of the Implementation of Thinking Skills Approaches on Pupils.” Research in Education Library (October). London: EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research.

Krathwohl, David R. 2002. “A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy: An Overview” Theory into Practice 41 (4): 212-18.

Leong, Deborah J., and Elena Bodrova. 2012. “Assessing and Scaffolding Make_Believe Play.” Young Children 67 (1): 28–34.

Lewis, Katherine Reynolds. 2016. “Abandon Parenting, and Just Be a Parent.” Atlantic. September 23.

Mahajan, Neha, and Karen Wynn. 2012. “Origins of ‘Us’ versus ‘Them’: Prelinguistic Infants Prefer Similar Others.” Cognition 124 (2): 227–33.

Mischel, Walter, Ebbe B. Ebbesen, and Antonette Raskoff Zeiss. 1972. “Cognitive and Attentional Mechanisms in Delay of Gratification.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 21 (2): 204–18.

National Center for Education Statistics. 2016. The Nation’s Report Card 2015. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education.

Noguera, Pedro, Linda Darling-Hammond, and Diane Friedlaender. 2015. “Equal Opportunity for Deeper Learning.” Jobs for the Future.

Pianta, Robert C., Jay Belsky, Renate Houts, and Fred Morrison. 2007. “Opportunities to Learn in America’s Elementary Classrooms.” Science 315 (5820): 1795–96.

Saifer, Steffen. 2010. “Higher Order Play” Psychological Science and Education Journal of the Moscow State University 3:38–50.

Touhill, Luke. 2012. “How to Draw a Mirror.” National Quality Standards Professional Learning Program e-Newsletter 43:3. Deakin West, Australia: Early Childhood Australia.

Thomson, Derek. 2015. “Lotteries: America’s $70 Billion Shame.” The Atlantic. May 11.

Weisberg, Deena Skolnick, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff. 2013. “Guided Play: Where Curricular Goals Meet a Playful Pedagogy. 2013.” Mind, Brain, and Education 7(2): 104-12. 

Weisberg, Deena Skonick, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Audrey K. Kittredge, and David Klahr. 2016. “Guided Play: Principles and Practices.” Current Directions in Psychological Science 25(3): 177-82. 

Wineburg, Sam, Sarah McGrew, Joel Breakstone, and Teresa Ortega. 2016. “Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning.” Stanford History Education Group: Stanford, CA.