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First Published In 2012. Routledge Is An Imprint Of Taylor & Francis, An Informa Company. Cover -- Teaching For Understanding What It Is And How To Do It -- Copyright -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Quality Counts -- Why A Concern For Understanding? -- A Thumbnail Sketch Of Some Underlying Ideas -- The Structure Of The Book -- Chapter 2 Understanding: A Worthwhile Goal -- What Does Understanding Offer? -- Understanding As A Common Educational Goal -- A Worthwhile Goal But A Secondary Concern -- Chapter 3 The Nature Of Understanding -- Mental Connections And Structures -- Different Kinds Of Understanding -- Understandings In Various Subjects -- Some Other Differences In Understandings -- Providing Support For Understanding -- Chapter 4 Making Connections -- Constructing A Mental Representation -- Working Memory -- The Undermind -- Constraints On Constructing Understandings -- Reconstructed Knowledge -- Chapter 5 Mental Engagement -- A Teaching Orientation -- Mental Engagement -- Explanation -- Questioning -- Forced Prediction -- Game-like Activities -- Reducing Processing Load -- Supporting Mental Processes -- Supporting Particular Kinds Of Understanding -- Practice And Theory -- Chapter 6 Something To Think With -- Representations -- Graphic Organizers -- Analogies -- The Effect Of Analogies -- Kinds Of Analogy -- Analogy And Understanding -- Bridging Analogies -- Using Analogies To Change Perspectives -- Limitations Of Support From Analogies -- Preparing To Offer An Analogy -- Chapter 7 Surrogate Teachers -- The Surrogate Teacher Analogy -- Text As Teacher -- Supporting Understanding With Text -- Text And Teaching -- Supporting Understanding With Information And Communication Technology (ict) -- Ict And Teaching -- Chapter 8 Failing To Understand -- Failure To Understand -- Origins Of Misconceptions. Theories About Dealing With Misconceptions -- Strategies For Dealing With Misconceptions -- Failing To Be Creative -- Emotions Matter Too -- Cha