Learning & Knowledge

Robert McCormick
Carrie Paechter
Learning Curriculum and Assessment Series
Learning & Knowledge
March 1999 | 272 pages | Sage UK
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Description

This textbook is founded on the idea of learning as knowledge construction and the implications of this for the nature of knowledge and for the way it is acquired.

The first section examines the nature of knowledge from several perspectives. The dominant theme is that views of learning closely relate to views of knowledge. The second section considers what it is to be knowledgeable. Expertise and types of knowledge are considered using examples from different phases of education and subject areas. The final part of the book focuses on learning within domains and what this means from different subject perspectives.

Learning and Knowledge is a Course Reader for The Open University course E836 Learning Curriculum and Assessment.

Contents

Introduction

  • Learning and Knowledge Construction

PART ONE: THE NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING

  • Epistemology and Education
  • Authentic School Science
  • Intellectual Traditions
  • Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Communities of Practice
  • Perspectives on the Nature of Science
  • The Curriculum as Socially Organised Knowledge
  • Music, Music Education and the Bourgeois Aesthetic
  • Developing a Music Curriculum for the New Millennium

PART TWO: LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT

  • Expert Knowledge and Processes of Thinking
  • Knowledge at Work
  • Practical Knowledge
  • A View from the Snooker Table
  • Achievement and Theories of Knowing and Learning
  • Meaning and Values in Test Validation
  • The Science and Ethics of Assessment

PART THREE: LEARNING IN DOMAINS

  • On Understanding the Nature of Scientific Knowledge
  • Medical Education; Or The Art of Keeping a Balance Between Science and Pragmatics
  • Mathematics (Grades 7-12)
  • Some Voices Are More Equal than Others
  • Subject and Other in the School Curriculum
  • Content as Context
  • The Role of School Subjects in Secondary School Teaching

Description

This textbook is founded on the idea of learning as knowledge construction and the implications of this for the nature of knowledge and for the way it is acquired.

The first section examines the nature of knowledge from several perspectives. The dominant theme is that views of learning closely relate to views of knowledge. The second section considers what it is to be knowledgeable. Expertise and types of knowledge are considered using examples from different phases of education and subject areas. The final part of the book focuses on learning within domains and what this means from different subject perspectives.

Learning and Knowledge is a Course Reader for The Open University course E836 Learning Curriculum and Assessment.

Contents

Introduction

  • Learning and Knowledge Construction

PART ONE: THE NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING

  • Epistemology and Education
  • Authentic School Science
  • Intellectual Traditions
  • Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Communities of Practice
  • Perspectives on the Nature of Science
  • The Curriculum as Socially Organised Knowledge
  • Music, Music Education and the Bourgeois Aesthetic
  • Developing a Music Curriculum for the New Millennium

PART TWO: LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT

  • Expert Knowledge and Processes of Thinking
  • Knowledge at Work
  • Practical Knowledge
  • A View from the Snooker Table
  • Achievement and Theories of Knowing and Learning
  • Meaning and Values in Test Validation
  • The Science and Ethics of Assessment

PART THREE: LEARNING IN DOMAINS

  • On Understanding the Nature of Scientific Knowledge
  • Medical Education; Or The Art of Keeping a Balance Between Science and Pragmatics
  • Mathematics (Grades 7-12)
  • Some Voices Are More Equal than Others
  • Subject and Other in the School Curriculum
  • Content as Context
  • The Role of School Subjects in Secondary School Teaching
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Learning & Knowledge

Robert McCormick , Carrie Paechter
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March 1999 | 272 pages | Sage UK

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This textbook is founded on the idea of learning as knowledge construction and the implications of this for the nature of knowledge and for the way it is acquired.

The first section examines the nature of knowledge from several perspectives. The dominant theme is that views of learning closely relate to views of knowledge. The second section considers what it is to be knowledgeable. Expertise and types of knowledge are considered using examples from different phases of education and subject areas. The final part of the book focuses on learning within domains and what this means from different subject perspectives.

Learning and Knowledge is a Course Reader for The Open University course E836 Learning Curriculum and Assessment.


Table Of Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Learning and Knowledge Construction
  • PART ONE: THE NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING
  • Epistemology and Education
  • Authentic School Science
  • Intellectual Traditions
  • Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Communities of Practice
  • Perspectives on the Nature of Science
  • The Curriculum as Socially Organised Knowledge
  • Music, Music Education and the Bourgeois Aesthetic
  • Developing a Music Curriculum for the New Millennium
  • PART TWO: LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT
  • Expert Knowledge and Processes of Thinking
  • Knowledge at Work
  • Practical Knowledge
  • A View from the Snooker Table
  • Achievement and Theories of Knowing and Learning
  • Meaning and Values in Test Validation
  • The Science and Ethics of Assessment
  • PART THREE: LEARNING IN DOMAINS
  • On Understanding the Nature of Scientific Knowledge
  • Medical Education; Or The Art of Keeping a Balance Between Science and Pragmatics
  • Mathematics (Grades 7-12)
  • Some Voices Are More Equal than Others
  • Subject and Other in the School Curriculum
  • Content as Context
  • The Role of School Subjects in Secondary School Teaching

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