Beyond Constructivism
| Author | : Richard A. Lesh |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 614 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780805838220 |
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Beyond Constructivism
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Beyond Constructivism
| Author | : Richard A. Lesh |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 610 |
| Release | : 2003-05-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1317438523 |
This book has two primary goals. On the level of theory development, the book clarifies the nature of an emerging "models and modeling perspective" about teaching, learning, and problem solving in mathematics and science education. On the level of emphasizing practical problems, it clarifies the nature of some of the most important elementary-but-powerful mathematical or scientific understandings and abilities that Americans are likely to need as foundations for success in the present and future technology-based information age. Beyond Constructivism: Models and Modeling Perspectives on Mathematics Problem Solving, Learning, and Teaching features an innovative Web site housing online appendices for each chapter, designed to supplement the print chapters with digital resources that include example problems, relevant research tools and video clips, as well as transcripts and other samples of students' work: http://tcct.soe.purdue.edu/booksULandULjournals/modelsULandUL modeling/ This is an essential volume for graduate-level courses in mathematics and science education, cognition and learning, and critical and creative thinking, as well as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in these areas.
Social Science
| Author | : Gerard Delanty |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780816631278 |
It is argued that the conception of social science emerging today is one that involves a synthesis of radical constructivism and critical realism. The crucial challenge facing social science is a question of its public role: growing reflexivity in society has implications for the social production of knowledge and is bringing into question the separation of expert systems from other forms of knowledge.
Human Being and Vulnerability
| Author | : Joseph Sverker |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2020-11-24 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3838213416 |
Joseph Sverker explores the division between social constructivism and a biologist essentialism by means of Christian theology. For this, Sverker uses a fascinating approach: He lets critical theorist Judith Butler, psycholinguist Steven Pinker, and systematic theologian Colin Gunton interact. While theology plays a central part to make the interaction possible, the context is also that of the school and the effect of institutions on the pupil as a human being and learner. In order to understand what underlies the division between nature and nurture, or biology and the social in school, Sverker develops new central concepts such as a kenotic personalism, a weak ontology of relationality, and a relational and performative reading of evolution. He argues that most fundamental for what it is to be human is the person, vulnerability, bodiliness, openness to the other, and dependence. Sverker concludes that the division between constructivism and essentialism discloses a deeper divide, namely that between fundamentally vulnerable persons on the one hand and constructed independent individuals on the other.
Beyond Modularity
| Author | : Annette Karmiloff-Smith |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1995-09-25 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9780262611145 |
Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches. She shows how each can enrich the other and how both are necessary to a fundamental theory of human cognition. Karmiloff-Smith shifts the focus from what cognitive science can offer the study of development to what a developmental perspective can offer cognitive science. In Beyond Modularity she treats cognitive development as a serious theoretical tool, presenting a coherent portrait of the flexibility and creativity of the human mind as it develops from infancy to middle childhood. Language, physics, mathematics, commonsense psychology, drawing, and writing are explored in terms of the relationship between the innate capacities of the human mind and subsequent representational change which allows for such flexibility and creativity. Karmiloff-Smith also takes up the issue of the extent to which development involves domain-specific versus domain-general processes. She concludes with discussions of nativism and domain specificity in relation to Piagetian theory and connectionism, and shows how a developmental perspective can pinpoint what is missing from connectionist models of the mind.
Constructivism and Education
| Author | : Marie Larochelle |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 1998-08-13 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780521621359 |
An international collection dealing with the constructivist approach to education.
Models and Modeling Perspectives
| Author | : Richard A. Lesh |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 129 |
| Release | : 2014-07-16 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1135484260 |
This special issue of Mathematical Thinking and Learning describes models and modeling perspectives toward mathematics problem solving, learning, and teaching. The concern is not only the mature forms of models and modeling in communities of scientists and mathematicians, but also the need to initiate students in these forms of thought. The contributions of this issue suggest a variety of ways that students (children through adults) can be introduced to highly productive forms of modeling practices. Collectively, they illustrate how modeling activities often lead to remarkable mathematical achievements by students formerly judged to be too young or too lacking in ability for such sophisticated and powerful forms of mathematical thinking. The papers also illustrate how modeling activities often create productive interdisciplinary niches for mathematical thinking, learning, and problem solving that involve simulations of similar situations that occur when mathematics is useful beyond school.
Science Education
| Author | : John K. Gilbert |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780415342292 |
Udvalgte artikler fra 1985-2005, fordelt på 8 temaer: The relationship between science and science education ; Aims of the formal science curriculum and the needs of the students ; Science education in the formal curriculum ; Assessment in formal science education ; Teaching in science education ; Learning in science education ; The conceptual development of students in science education ; The professional development of science teachers
Mathematical Modelling
| Author | : S J Lamon |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2003-06-01 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 085709954X |
Mathematical modelling is often spoken of as a way of life, referring to habits of mind and to dependence on the power of mathematics to describe, explain, predict and control real phenomena. This book aims to encourage teachers to provide opportunities for students to model a variety of real phenomena appropriately matched to students' mathematical backgrounds and interests from early stages of mathematical education. Habits, misconceptions, and mindsets about mathematics can present obstacles to university students' acceptance of a ''models-and-modelling perspective'' at this stage of mathematics education. Without prior experience in building, interpreting and applying mathematical models, many students may never come to view and regard modelling as a way of life. The book records presentations at the ICTMA 11 conference held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2003. - Examines mathematical modelling as a way of life, referring to habits of mind and dependence on the power of mathematics to describe, explain, predict and control real phenomena - Encourages teachers to provide students with opportunities to model a variety of real phenomena appropriately matched to students' mathematical backgrounds and interests from early stages of mathematical education - Records presentations at the ICTMA 11 conference held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2003
Teaching and Learning with Technology
| Author | : Concetta M. Stewart |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2010-07-02 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 113697380X |
Today, new media is both augmenting and extending the traditional classroom with a variety of technology-based tools available to both students and faculty, and has created "new" virtual classrooms for anywhere, anytime availability to education. Despite the enormous potential for technology to support the educational enterprise in this emerging "creative" economy, technologies are still not yet fully integrated in the classroom and their association with educational outcomes is as-yet unclear. This book profiles scholarly work from around the world to examine closely the effectiveness of the newest media in education at bridging the gaps among and between teachers, students and subject matter at all levels, from K-12 through adult education. These pieces are theory-based investigations with implications for future research, theory and application. Contributors examine how the fields of education and new media have evolved and are continuing to evolve pedagogically and practically, from predominantly instructivist, with a passive, one-way teaching format; to constructivist, including teacher- and learner-controlled, sensorially immersive and socially interactive exchanges. This book will be of interest to students and faculty in the areas of new media in education, including distance learning, online learning and "virtual" learning.
