Beyond Constructivism

Author : Richard A. Lesh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317438515
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Constructivism written by Richard A. Lesh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Matt Jarvis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000849139
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching and Learning with Technology written by Matt Jarvis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching and Learning with Technology sets out key principles for digital learning underpinned by research evidence. It explores the ways in which technology can help teachers to achieve their goals and support good pedagogy and offers practical strategies for using technology when planning and delivering effective lessons. Drawing on examples from across the curriculum and highlighting a wide range of key technologies, chapters cover: Live remote teaching Delivering content and instruction Using technology to assess learning Alternative learning platforms Ensuring accessibility and personalising learning E-safety, safeguarding and legal compliance Written by a leading expert in digital education and filled with easy-to-implement tips, this book is an essential guide for all teachers delivering lessons online.

Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816631278
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Science written by Gerard Delanty and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Marie Larochelle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521621359
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructivism and Education written by Marie Larochelle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international collection dealing with the constructivist approach to education.

Author : Joseph Sverker
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838213416
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Being and Vulnerability written by Joseph Sverker and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262611145
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Modularity written by Annette Karmiloff-Smith and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995-09-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429581394
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Perspectives written by Robert Schwartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a good part of the 20th century, the classic Pragmatists—Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey—and pragmatism in general were largely ignored by analytic philosophers. They were said to hold such untenable views as whatever best satisfies our needs is true and that the end justifies the means. Despite a recent revival of interest in these figures, spurred largely by the work of Richard Rorty, it is not uncommon to continue to hear claims that pragmatism is a subjectivist, anti-realist position that denies that there is a mind-independent world, and fails to place objective constraints on inquiry. In this book, Robert Schwartz dispels these traditional views by examining the empiricist and constructivist orientation of the classic pragmatists. Based on updated and expanded versions of his influential papers, as well as a number of previously unpublished essays, in this book Schwartz demonstrates the relevance of pragmatic thought to a wide range of issues beyond concerns over truth and realism that currently dominate discussions. The individual essays elaborate and defend pragmatic, instrumentalist, and constructivist conceptions of truth and inquiry, moral discourse and ethical statements, perception, art, and worldmaking. Pragmatic Perspectives will appeal to scholars interested in the history of American philosophy and pragmatic approaches to contemporary issues in analytic philosophy.

Author : Ines W. Jindra
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900426650X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Model of Religious Conversion written by Ines W. Jindra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the analysis of 52 conversion narratives to various religious groups, A New Model of Religious Conversion utilizes case studies for comparison of converts' backgrounds, network influence, and conversion narratives. The author convincingly illustrates a "fit" between the converts' background and the religion they convert to, such as between disorganized family backgrounds and highly structured religions. Conversely, those from highly structured backgrounds often convert to more "open" groups. The book also makes it clear that not all conversions are influenced by networks or align themselves with a social constructivist view of a conversion as an "account." Taking converts' trajectories seriously, the author makes a strong case for the application of biographical sociology to the study of conversion and (American) sociology overall.

Author : Chris Stabile
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119216141
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructivism Reconsidered in the Age of Social Media written by Chris Stabile and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No longer relegated to just the classroom, learning has become universal through the use of social media. Social media embodies constructivism itself as the users engage in the development of their own meaning. And, constructivism is relevant to education, and learning theory and technological advance can be better understood in the light of one another. This volume explores: particular areas influenced by constructivist thinking and social media, such as student learning, faculty development, and pedagogical practices, practical and useful ways to engage in social media, and dialogue and discussions regarding the nature of learning in relation to the technology that has changed how both faculty and students experience their educational landscape. This is the 144th volume of this Jossey-Bass higher education series. It offers a comprehensive range of ideas and techniques for improving college teaching based on the experience of seasoned instructors and the latest findings of educational and psychological researchers.

Author : James Gledhill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351205536
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy written by James Gledhill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Kantian constructivism has become one of the most influential and systematic schools of thought in analytic moral and political philosophy, Hegelian approaches to practical normativity hold out the promise of building upon Kantian insights into individual self-determination while avoiding their dualistic tendencies. James Gledhill and Sebastian Stein unite distinguished scholars of German idealism and contemporary Anglophone practical philosophy with rising stars in the field, to explore whether Hegelian idealist philosophy can offer the categories that analytic practical philosophy requires to overcome the contradictions that have so far plagued Kantian constructivism. The volume organizes the contributions into three parts. The first of these engages debates in metaethics regarding the relationship between realism and constructivism. The second part sees contributors draw on debates about the nature of political normativity, focusing primarily on the problems of historical contextualism, relativism, and critical reflection. The concluding part considers the application of the Hegelian framework to contemporary debates about specific ethical issues, including multiculturalism, democracy, and human rights. Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy contributes to the on-going debate about the importance of systematic philosophy in the context of practical philosophy, engages with contemporary discussions about the shape of a rational social order, and gauges the timeliness of Hegelian philosophy. This book is a must read for scholars interested in Hegel and in the contemporary tradition of Kantian constructivism in moral and political philosophy.