Reflections on the learning sciences / edited by Michael A. Evans, North Carolina State University, Martin J. Packer, University of the Andes, Bogota, Colombia, R. Keith Sawyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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.
Summary:
"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 guided the learning sciences through the initial turbulence of forming a new line of academic inquiry, as well as newcomers who are continuing to shape the field. This diversity allows for a broad yet selective perspective on what the learning sciences is, why it came to be, and how contributors conduct their work. Reflections on the Learning Sciences serves both as a starting point for discussion among scholars familiar with the discipline and as an introduction for those interested in learning more. It will benefit graduate students and researchers in computer science, educational psychology, instructional technology, science, engineering, and mathematics"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Current perspectives in social and behavioral sciences
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