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Passibility
eBook - At the Limits of the Constructivist Metaphor, Classics in Science Education
ISBN/EAN: 9789400719088
Umbreit-Nr.: 1844241
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 282 S., 7.60 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 05.08.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- <p>This book argues that the constructivist metaphor has become a self-appointed overriding concept that suppresses other modes of thinking about knowing and learning science. Yet there are questions about knowledge that constructivism cannot properly answer, such as how a cognitive structure can intentionally develop a formation that is more complex than itself; how a learner can aim at a learning objective that is, by definition, itself unknown; how we learn through pain, suffering, love or passion; and the role emotion and crises play in knowing and learning.</p><p>In support of the hypothesis that passibility underlies cognition, readers are provided with a collation of empirical studies and phenomenological analyses of knowing and learning sciencein schools, scientific laboratories and everyday lifeall of which defy a constructivist explanation. The author argues that passibility constitutes an essential factor in the development of consciousness, with a range of essential experiences that cannot be brought into the linguistic realm. His exploration is guided by concepts such as otherness, passion, passivity and undecidability, and concludes by resituating the construction metaphor to accord it its proper place in a more comprehensive theory of learning.</p>
- Kurztext
- <p>Guided by concepts such as passion and undecidability, this book uses empirical studies and phenomenological analyses of knowing and learning science to argue that the constructivist metaphor suppresses other modes of thinking about scientific learning.</p>