Contents -- Introduction -- I: Theory -- 1 Piaget's Theory Applied to the School for Thinking -- Seven characteristics: Development versus learning -- The source of development -- High-level thinking -- Language and thinking -- Intrinsic Motivation -- Scope of intelligence -- Developmental stages -- II: A School for Thinking -- 2 The Project at Charleston -- How it began -- What we proposed -- How teachers were trained -- Tyler Elementary School -- The teachers, the children, the parents -- The two years of the project -- 3 Guiding Principles of a Thinking School Classroom -- Long-range objectives -- General rationale of classroom activities -- 4 The Structure of the Classroom -- School activities program -- Time schedule of activities -- General plan of a first year school day -- A week's schedule of first year activities -- The second year schedule -- Grouping of children -- Raising and lowering demands -- 5 An Environment for Intellectual Health -- Ill: Thinking Games -- 6 General Movement Thinking -- Reflexive control, 2 games -- Mental map of body, 7 games -- Coordination of body's axes, 8 games -- Body balance, 4 games -- Coordinated action, 3 games -- 7 Discriminative Movement Thinking -- Eye movement-thinking -- Digital movement thinking, 5 games -- Lip and tongue movement-thinking, 9 games -- 8 Visual Thinking Games -- Parquetry block, 10 games -- Pegboard, 4 games -- Tachistoscope, 11 games -- Miscellaneous, 10 games -- 9 Auditory Thinking Games -- 10 Hand Thinking Games -- Feel-and-find box, 8 games -- 11 Graphic Thinking Games -- Dots, 3 games -- Tracking, 7 games -- Prewriting, 1 game -- 12 Logical Thinking Games -- Classification -- Ordering and seriating, 3 games -- Permutations, 2 games -- Cross classification, 3 games -- Symbol-picture logic, 1 game -- Probability, 3 games -- Visual perspective, 2 games.

13 Social Thinking Games -- Experience drama -- Tune-up games, 6 games -- For entire class, 8 games -- For small group, 6 games -- Experience photography, 6 games -- Experience excursions, 3 games -- Experience demonstrations -- Experience discussions -- IV: Implications -- 14 A School for Thinking for All Children -- Primary education -- Preprimary education -- Postprimary education -- Special education -- Outlook -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.