Educational Knowledge

Author : Seng Chee Tan,Hyo Jeong So,Jennifer Yeo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789812870476

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Knowledge Creation in Education by Seng Chee Tan,Hyo Jeong So,Jennifer Yeo Pdf

This book arises from research conducted through Singapore’s National Institute of Education on such topics as integrating knowledge building pedagogies into Singaporean classrooms, with both students and teachers across school levels, from primary schools to high schools. Additionally, international scholars contribute research on theories of knowledge creation, methodological foundations of research on knowledge creation, knowledge creation pedagogies in classrooms and knowledge creation work involving educators. The book is organized in two sections. Section A focuses on theoretical, technological and methodological issues, where sources of justification for claims are predominantly theories and extant literature, although empirical evidence is used extensively in one chapter. Section B reports knowledge creation practices in schools, with teachers, students or both; the key sources of justification for claims are predominantly empirical evidence and narratives of experience The editor asserts that schools should focus on developing students’ capacity and disposition in knowledge creation work; at the same time, leaders and teachers alike should continue to develop their professional knowledge as a community. In the knowledge building vernacular, the chapters are knowledge artifacts – artifacts that not only document the findings of the editors and authors, but that also mediate future advancement in this area of research work. The ultimate aim of the book is to inspire new ideas, and to illuminate the path for researchers of similar interest in knowledge creation in education.

Author : Marc Spooner,James McNinch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : EDUCATION
ISBN : 0889775362

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Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education by Marc Spooner,James McNinch Pdf

Dissident Knowledge challenges the audit-based, neoliberal culture that is threatening the foundational values of higher education institutions everywhere.

Author : Jim Hordern,Johan Muller,Deng Zongyi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040012284

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Towards Powerful Educational Knowledge by Jim Hordern,Johan Muller,Deng Zongyi Pdf

This book explores what constitutes valid or powerful educational knowledge and the role of educational theorising in questions of educational practice. It examines the challenges facing the ‘deliberative’ educational knowledge traditions of educational foundations, curriculum theory and Didaktik as a consequence of the rising tide of empiricism in educational research, the ‘what works’ agenda in global educational reform and internal fragmentation within the traditions themselves. By examining the potential for the reconfiguration or reconstruction of these traditions, the book explores the possibility of reinvigorating deliberative educational theorising in ways that could provide a meaningful basis for educators to conceptualise their practice, and a robust response to policies that seek to narrow educational activity to a focus solely on learning outcomes and technical efficiency. This insightful volume will be of interest to all those concerned about the future of education, and particular the relationship between educational theory and educational practice in curriculum studies, teacher education and professional development. It will be a key resource for teachers, curriculum developers, policy makers and researchers in the field of curriculum theory and didactics. The book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Curriculum Studies.

Author : Ann E. Lopez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031556883

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Decolonizing Educational Knowledge by Ann E. Lopez Pdf

Author : E. D. Hirsch
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612509549

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Why Knowledge Matters by E. D. Hirsch Pdf

In Why Knowledge Matters, influential scholar E. D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform and shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences. Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, draws on recent findings in neuroscience and data from France to provide new evidence for the argument that a carefully planned, knowledge-based elementary curriculum is essential to providing the foundations for children’s life success and ensuring equal opportunity for students of all backgrounds. In the absence of a clear, common curriculum, Hirsch contends that tests are reduced to measuring skills rather than content, and that students from disadvantaged backgrounds cannot develop the knowledge base to support high achievement. Hirsch advocates for updated policies based on a set of ideas that are consistent with current cognitive science, developmental psychology, and social science. The book focuses on six persistent problems of recent US education: the over-testing of students; the scapegoating of teachers; the fadeout of preschool gains; the narrowing of the curriculum; the continued achievement gap between demographic groups; and the reliance on standards that are not linked to a rigorous curriculum. Hirsch examines evidence from the United States and other nations that a coherent, knowledge-based approach to schooling has improved both achievement and equity wherever it has been instituted, supporting the argument that the most significant education reform and force for equality of opportunity and greater social cohesion is the reform of fundamental educational ideas. Why Knowledge Matters introduces a new generation of American educators to Hirsch’s astute and passionate analysis.

Author : Carnot E. Nelson,Ward S. Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015028100520

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1975 Federal Funding for Education Knowledge Production and Utilization by Carnot E. Nelson,Ward S. Mason Pdf

Author : David Carr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134714322

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Education, Knowledge and Truth by David Carr Pdf

In the 1960s educational philosophers showed enormous interest in the nature of knowledge and the curriculum. This work responds to the need to reinstate conceptual problems of truth, knowledge and the curriculum on the agenda for debate.

Author : Carl S. Blyth,Joshua J. Thoms
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781800411012

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Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching by Carl S. Blyth,Joshua J. Thoms Pdf

Compared with STEM fields, foreign language (FL) education and second language acquisition have only slowly embraced open education and the new knowledge ecologies it produces. FL educators may have been hesitant to participate in the open education movement due to a lack of research which investigates the benefits and challenges of FL learning and teaching in open environments. This book contextualizes open education in FL learning and teaching via an historical overview of the movement, along with an in-depth exploration of how the open movement affects FL education beyond the classroom context; fills the research void by exploring aspects of open second language learning and teaching across a range of educational contexts; and illustrates new ways of creating, adapting and curating FL materials that are freely shared among FL educators and students. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.

Author : Carl Bereiter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135644796

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Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age by Carl Bereiter Pdf

In this book, Carl Bereiter--a distinguished and well-known cognitive, educational psychologist--presents what he calls "a new way of thinking about knowledge and the mind." He argues that in today's Knowledge Age, education's conceptual tools are inadequate to address the pressing educational challenges and opportunities of the times. Two things are required: first, to replace the mind-as-container metaphor with one that envisions a mind capable of sustaining knowledgeable, intelligent behavior without actually containing stored beliefs; second, to recognize a fundamental difference between knowledge building and learning--both of which are essential parts of education for the knowledge age. Connectionism in cognitive science addresses the first need; certain developments in post-positivist epistemology address the second. The author explores both the theoretical bases and the practical educational implications of this radical change in viewpoint. The book draws on current new ways of thinking about knowledge and mind, including information processing, cognitive psychology, situated cognition, constructivism, social constructivism, and connectionism, but does not adhere strictly to any "camp." Above all, the author is concerned with developing a way of thinking about the mind that can usher education into the knowledge age. This book is intended as a starting point.

Author : Thomas A. Popkewitz,Jennifer Diaz,Christopher Kirchgasler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315528519

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A Political Sociology of Educational Knowledge by Thomas A. Popkewitz,Jennifer Diaz,Christopher Kirchgasler Pdf

Bringing together the sociology of knowledge, cultural studies, and post-foundational and historical approaches, this book asks what schooling does, and what are its limits and dangers. The focus is on how the systems of reason that govern schooling embody historically generated rules and standards about what is talked about, thought, and acted on; about the "nature" of children; about the practices and paradoxes of educational reform. These systems of reason are examined to consider issues of power, the political, and social exclusion. The transnational perspectives interrelate historical and ethnographic studies of the modern school to explore how curriculum is translated through social and cognitive psychologies that make up the subjects of schooling, and how educational sciences "act" to order and divide what is deemed possible to think and do. The central argument is that taken-for-granted notions of educational change and research paradoxically produce differences that simultaneously include and exclude.

Author : Anke Hertling,Peter Carrier
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781800734838

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Collecting Educational Media by Anke Hertling,Peter Carrier Pdf

Introduction. Collections, Collectors and the Collecting of Knowledge in Education -- Section 1. Collectors and Collecting -- Section 2. Objects, Materials, and Old and New Media -- Section 3. Access and Acquisition -- Conclusion. Collecting Literacy when Gathering, Storing and Disseminating Educational Media.

Author : Maria Teresa Tatto,Ian Menter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350068698

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Knowledge, Policy and Practice in Teacher Education by Maria Teresa Tatto,Ian Menter Pdf

Knowledge, Policy and Practice in Teacher Education reviews the evolution of education policy on initial teacher education as an indicator of the knowledge that is considered important for nation building. It also looks at research on approaches and structures to initial teacher learning as an indication of the intellectual and moral direction to which schooling must aspire. Contributors look at these dynamics across a range of societies including Australia, the Czech Republic, England, Finland, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, and the USA. Using a review of the literature approach within a comparative framework, the book seeks to answer the following questions for each country: What has been the evolution of different approaches to learning to teach in each setting, and what factors have influenced change over the years? What are the underlying theories that characterize past and current thinking about the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed by teachers and what evidence is used to support these theories? What does a review on the state of the knowledge about teacher education over the past 30 years reveal about the evolution of the research and knowledge traditions that have supported current and past innovations in teacher education? Maria Teresa Tatto and Ian Menter explore international variability in different conceptions of knowledge in the context of learning to teach and explore the way in which national and international influences interact in the developing trajectories of teacher education policy and practice, considering what knowledge is considered important for teachers to have.

Author : Jung Cheol Shin,Barbara M. Kehm,Glen A. Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319897134

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Doctoral Education for the Knowledge Society by Jung Cheol Shin,Barbara M. Kehm,Glen A. Jones Pdf

This book explores and compares the systems of doctoral education in twelve higher education systems, consisting of four systems in East Asia, four in Europe and four Anglo-American systems. The emphasis placed on doctoral education and training has increased dramatically in many higher education systems in response to the global competition for highly skilled human resources to serve the needs of knowledge societies. Doctoral education is a key element within the research and development infrastructure, and doctoral students support university research and represent the next generation of the professoriate. While doctoral education has received considerable attention within national higher education systems, there has been surprisingly little international or comparative research on the structure of doctoral education and the nature of contemporary reforms.

Author : Christine Winberg,Sioux McKenna,Kirstin Wilmot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000075533

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Building Knowledge in Higher Education by Christine Winberg,Sioux McKenna,Kirstin Wilmot Pdf

From pressures to become economically efficient to calls to act as an agent of progressive social change, higher education is facing a series of challenges. There is an urgent need for a rigorous and sophisticated research base to support the informed development of practices. Yet studies of educational practices in higher education remain theoretically underdeveloped and segmented by discipline and country. Building Knowledge in Higher Education illustrates how Legitimation Code Theory is bringing research together from across the disciplinary map and enabling practical change in a rigorously theorized way. The volume addresses both students and educators. Part I explores ways of supporting student achievement from STEM to the arts, from introductory courses to doctoral training, and from using new digital media to reflective writing. Part II focuses on academic staff development in higher education, reaching from curriculum design to pedagogic practices. All chapters focus on issues of contemporary relevance to higher education, showing how Legitimation Code Theory enables these issues to be understood and practices improved. Building Knowledge in Higher Education brings together internationally renowned scholars in higher education studies, academic development, academic literacies, and sociology, with some of the brightest new researchers. The volume significantly extends understandings of teaching and learning in changing higher education contexts and so contributes to educational research and practice. It will be essential reading not only to scholars and students in these fields but also to scholars and educators in higher education more generally.

Author : Jal Mehta,Sarah Fine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674988392

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In Search of Deeper Learning by Jal Mehta,Sarah Fine Pdf

"The best book on high school dynamics I have ever read."--Jay Mathews, Washington Post An award-winning professor and an accomplished educator take us beyond the hype of reform and inside some of America's most innovative classrooms to show what is working--and what isn't--in our schools. What would it take to transform industrial-era schools into modern organizations capable of supporting deep learning for all? Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine's quest to answer this question took them inside some of America's most innovative schools and classrooms--places where educators are rethinking both what and how students should learn. The story they tell is alternately discouraging and hopeful. Drawing on hundreds of hours of observations and interviews at thirty different schools, Mehta and Fine reveal that deeper learning is more often the exception than the rule. And yet they find pockets of powerful learning at almost every school, often in electives and extracurriculars as well as in a few mold-breaking academic courses. These spaces achieve depth, the authors argue, because they emphasize purpose and choice, cultivate community, and draw on powerful traditions of apprenticeship. These outliers suggest that it is difficult but possible for schools and classrooms to achieve the integrations that support deep learning: rigor with joy, precision with play, mastery with identity and creativity. This boldly humanistic book offers a rich account of what education can be. The first panoramic study of American public high schools since the 1980s, In Search of Deeper Learning lays out a new vision for American education--one that will set the agenda for schools of the future.