In this new edition of the highly regarded Why Don't Students Like School? cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham turns his research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning into workable teaching techniques. This book will help you improve your teaching practice by explaining how you and your students think and learn. It reveals the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences. With a treasure trove of updated material, this edition draws its themes from the most frequently asked questions in Willingham’s “Ask the Cognitive Scientist” column in the American Educator. How can you teach students the skills they need when standardized testing just requires facts? Why do students remember everything on TV, but forget everything you say? How can you adjust your teaching for different learning styles? Read this book for the answers to these questions and for practical advice on helping your learners learn better.

通过这本书，尼克尔斯医生向我们展示了一幅幅生动的家庭生活图景。作者以生动的语言和娴熟的叙述手法，对家庭生活的各个发展阶段进行了呈现，包括恋爱、结婚、生子、养育子女、子女离家独立生活、子女回家寄居、出轨、分居、离婚、再婚，等等。此外，对于家庭中不同关系类型（夫妻关系、父母关系、同胞关系、姻亲关系、子亲关系）对家庭成员的影响，作者也在全书以单独的章节逐个呈现。 读者可以通过一位家庭治疗师的诊疗日志，了解他与萨拉萨尔一家的合作经历，探索这一家人的家庭关系在不同阶段的演化——从恋爱一直到孩子们开始独立生活。 这份独特的案例研究笔记通过家庭治疗师的视角，为我们提供了极具深度的第一手资料，展示了每个家庭成员的心路历程，对家庭系统疗法进行了较为全面的介绍。本书对家庭生活的每个重大阶段均以单独章节呈现，并探讨了性别、种族和性取向对个体和家庭的影响。