Overview
- Pushes the boundary of knowledge building pedagogy towards a more inclusive paradigm of knowledge creation
- Offers the most thorough account yet of integration of pedagogies of knowledge creation paradigm into Singaporean classrooms
- Expands the knowledge base on the topic of knowledge creation in education from theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives
- Provides a timely update on advancement in the theories and research methodologies of knowledge building
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Education Innovation Series (EDIN)
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Seng Chee Tan, Ph.D., is the Head of the Learning Sciences and Technologies academic group of the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (LST, NIE). His research interests include computer-supported collaborative learning and knowledge creation in education. He has conducted several intervention projects in Singapore classrooms using knowledge building pedagogy and has been working on building teachers’ community for knowledge creation among teachers.
Dr. Hyo-Jeong So is currently affiliated to the department of Creative IT Engineering at Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH), Korea. Previously, she was working with LST, NIE. Her research interests include computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), mobile learning, and human-computer interaction (HCI). In Singapore, she conducted research projects on knowledge building in primary and secondary school contexts and explored the pedagogical and technological design of pervasive knowledge building accessible to a wide range of students.
Jennifer Yeo is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education (Singapore). Prior to joining NIE, Jennifer taught physics and English in Victoria School for eight years. She was the subject head of audio and visual department and then of physics. As she embarked on the Master of Arts in instructional design and technologies and Ph.D, she assisted in various research projects related to the use of technologies in teaching and learning. Jennifer's research interest is in understanding how people learn science. Her earlier studies looked at students’ sense-making in problem-based learning and knowledge building environments. Her current research focuses on the role of representations in students’ construction of scientific explanation and argumentation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Knowledge Creation in Education
Editors: Seng Chee Tan, Hyo Jeong So, Jennifer Yeo
Series Title: Education Innovation Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-047-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-046-9Published: 01 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1180-1Published: 27 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-047-6Published: 12 June 2014
Series ISSN: 2211-4874
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4882
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 305
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Educational Technology, Learning & Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education