Overview
- Organized into position papers, commentaries, responses, and synthesis chapters, facilitating a dialogic structure
- Grounds discussion into a common stet of material leading to collaborative analysis
- Includes primary data (transcripts, exhibits, images)
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Explorations in the Learning Sciences, Instructional Systems and Performance Technologies (LSIS, volume 1)
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This is a book about an attempt to change the way math was taught in a particular classroom. Its title plays on our everyday usage of the terms theory and practice. In education, these terms are conventionally treated oppositionally—we have theories about what we should do and we have what teachers actually do do. In this way, theory stands prior, logically and chronologically, to practice; practice inevitably becoming theory’s imperfect realization. We seek in this volume, however, to develop a different stance with regard to the relationship between the two. Taking the details of instructional practice as our principle object of study, we explore what role theories of learning might play in illuminating such practices. The book is about actual practices by which teaching is done and how contemporary theories of learning might help us understand those practices. It seeks to provide a foundation for future practice-based inquiry in education, by addressing the methodological question: How do we go about studying instructional practice in a principled way?
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Introductions
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The Situated Action Perspective
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A Dialogic Theory of Learning
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Transactional Inquiry
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theories of Learning and Studies of Instructional Practice
Editors: Timothy Koschmann
Series Title: Explorations in the Learning Sciences, Instructional Systems and Performance Technologies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7582-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-7581-2Published: 26 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2867-1Published: 28 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-7582-9Published: 19 April 2011
Series ISSN: 2512-1715
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1723
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 488
Topics: Learning & Instruction