Reflections on the learning sciences /

"This volume offers a historical and critical analysis of the emerging field of the learning sciences, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and improving how children and adults learn. It features a wide range of authors, including established scholars who founded and guid...

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Other Authors: Evans, Michael A., 1964- (Editor), Packer, Martin J, Packer, Martin J. (Editor), Sawyer, R. Keith (Robert Keith) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016
Series:Current perspectives in social and behavioral sciences
Current perspectives in social and behavioral sciences
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Michael A. Evans, Martin J. Packer and R. Keith Sawyer; Part I. Past: 2. Why learning sciences? / Roger Schank; 3. The prehistory of the learning sciences / Roy D. Pea; 4. Some early contributions to the situative perspective on learning and cognition / James G. Greeno and Timothy J. Nokes-Malach; 5. The group as paradigmatic unit of analysis: the contested relationship of computer-suported collaborative learning to the learning sciences / Gerry Stahl; Part II. Present: 6. Reconstructing the influences on and focus of the learning sciences from the field's published conference proceedings / Victor R. Lee, Min Yuan, Lei Ye, and Mimi Recker; 7. Mapping the territory of the learning sciences / Martin J. Packer and Cody Maddox; 8. Researcher-practitioner collaboration in educational design research: processes, roles, values, and expectations / Susan McKenney; Part III. Future: 9. Growing the learning sciences: brand or big tent? Implications for graduate education / Mitchell J. Nathan, Nikol Rummel, and Kenneth E. Hay; 10. Education policy and the learning sciences: the case for a new alliance / Mary Kay Stein, Kevin Crowley, and Lauren Resnick; 11. Learning and development as transaction: offering a Deweyan perspective to extend the landscape of the learning sciences / Michael A. Evans and Sandra Schneider; 12. A Foucauldian analysis of the learning sciences: past, present, and future / R. Keith Sawyer
  • 1. Introduction / Michael A. Evans, Martin J. Packer and R. Keith Sawyer; Part I. Past: 2. Why learning sciences? / Roger Schank; 3. The prehistory of the learning sciences / Roy D. Pea; 4. Some early contributions to the situative perspective on learning and cognition / James G. Greeno and Timothy J. Nokes-Malach; 5. The group as paradigmatic unit of analysis: the contested relationship of computer-suported collaborative learning to the learning sciences / Gerry Stahl; Part II. Present: 6. Reconstructing the influences on and focus of the learning sciences from the field's published conference proceedings / Victor R. Lee, Min Yuan, Lei Ye, and Mimi Recker; 7. Mapping the territory of the learning sciences / Martin J. Packer and Cody Maddox; 8. Researcher-practitioner collaboration in educational design research: processes, roles, values, and expectations / Susan McKenney; Part III. Future: 9. Growing the learning sciences: brand or big tent? Implications for graduate education / Mitchell J. Nathan, Nikol Rummel, and Kenneth E. Hay; 10. Education policy and the learning sciences: the case for a new alliance / Mary Kay Stein, Kevin Crowley, and Lauren Resnick; 11. Learning and development as transaction: offering a Deweyan perspective to extend the landscape of the learning sciences / Michael A. Evans and Sandra Schneider; 12. A Foucauldian analysis of the learning sciences: past, present, and future / R. Keith Sawyer
  • 1. Introduction / Michael A. Evans, Martin J. Packer and R. Keith Sawyer; Part I. Past: 2. Why learning sciences? / Roger Schank; 3. The prehistory of the learning sciences / Roy D. Pea; 4. Some early contributions to the situative perspective on learning and cognition / James G. Greeno and Timothy J. Nokes-Malach; 5. The group as paradigmatic unit of analysis: the contested relationship of computer-supported collaborative learning to the learning sciences / Gerry Stahl; Part 2. Present: 6. Reconstructing the influences on and focus of the learning sciences from the field's published conference proceedings / Victor R. Lee, Min Yuan, Lei Ye, and Mimi Recker; 7. Mapping the territory of the learning sciences / Martin J. Packer and Cody Maddox; 8. Researcher-practitioner collaboration in educational design research: processes, roles, values, and expectations / Susan McKenney; Part 3. Future: 9. Growing the learning sciences: brand or big tent? Implications for graduate education / Mitchell J. Nathan, Nikol Rummel, and Kenneth E. Hay; 10. Education policy and the learning sciences: the case for a new alliance / Mary Kay Stein, Kevin Crowley, and Lauren Resnick; 11. Learning and development as transaction: offering a Deweyan perspective to extend the landscape of the learning sciences / Michael A. Evans and Sandra Schneider; 12. A Foucauldian analysis of the learning sciences: past, present, and future / R. Keith Sawyer