Integrating and Sustaining Habits of Mind. (Book Reviews).Arthur Costa and Bena Kallick's Integrating and Sustaining Habits of Mind is the fourth book of a developmental series on discovering and exploring, activating and engaging, assessing and reporting, and now integrating and sustaining habits of mind. The books are quick reads loaded with references, resources and practical tools to develop thoughtful, caring and sensitive learning communities. Persisting, thinking flexibly, finding humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was , thinking about thinking and gathering data are among the 16 traits in the list of habits. The list is not exhaustive. The authors invite further elaboration and identification from readers. Late in the book, "thinking chimerically chi·mer·i·cal also chi·mer·ic adj. 1. Created by or as if by a wildly fanciful imagination; highly improbable. 2. Given to unrealistic fantasies; fanciful. 3. ," pops up. Such thinking is described as the ability to imagine and fantasize, a la filmmaker George Lucas Noun 1. George Lucas - United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944) Lucas . This is the authors' tease to the reader to consider additional habits beyond their 16. This stimulation is precisely what the writers had in mind. The writings provide habit descriptions, instructional strategies for acquisition, assessment tools, means of involving the whole learning community of adults and students, and models of those who have incorporated the habits into schools. Practicing the habits of mind is suggested as a possible anchor of stability in a chaotic environment. The overarching o·ver·arch·ing adj. 1. Forming an arch overhead or above: overarching branches. 2. Extending over or throughout: "I am not sure whether the missing ingredient . . . goal behind the development of the habits of mind is to develop more cooperative and creative approaches to world peace. (Integrating and Sustaining Habits of Mind by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, or ASCD, is a membership-based nonprofit organization founded in 1943. It has more than 175,000 members in 135 countries, including superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and , 1703 N. Beauregard Sr., Alexandria, VA 22311, 2000,107 pp., $21.95 softcover soft·cov·er adj. Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. ) |
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