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Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Learners and Knowledge 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Robert McCormick and Carrie Paechter Learning and Knowledge Construction PART ONE: THE NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING Epistemology and Education - Israel Scheffler Authentic School Science - Wolff-Michael Roth Intellectual Traditions Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Communities of Practice - Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger Perspectives on the Nature of Science - R Driver, et al The Curriculum as Socially Organised Knowledge - Michael Young Music, Music Education and the Bourgeois Aesthetic - Gary Spruce Developing a Music Curriculum for the New Millennium PART TWO: LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT Expert Knowledge and Processes of Thinking - Robert Glaser Knowledge at Work - Sylvia Scribner Practical Knowledge - Robert McCormick A View from the Snooker Table Achievement and Theories of Knowing and Learning - J G Greeno, P D Pearson and A H Schoenfeld Meaning and Values in Test Validation - Samuel Messick The Science and Ethics of Assessment PART THREE: LEARNING IN DOMAINS On Understanding the Nature of Scientific Knowledge - Susan Carey and Carol Smith Medical Education; Or The Art of Keeping a Balance Between Science and Pragmatics - H P A Boshuizen Mathematics (Grades 7-12) - Steven R Williams Some Voices Are More Equal than Others - Carrie Paechter Subject and Other in the School Curriculum Content as Context - Pamela L Grossman and Susan S Stodolsky The Role of School Subjects in Secondary School Teaching ...
