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Item Details
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PASSIBILITY
AT THE LIMITS OF THE CONSTRUCTIVIST METAPHOR |
| By: |
Wolff-Michael Roth |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£109.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9400719078 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789400719071 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER |
| Pub. date: |
5 August, 2011 |
| Edition: |
2011 ed. |
| Series: |
Classics in Science Education 3 |
| Pages: |
282 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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.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 science-in schools, scientific laboratories and everyday life-all 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. |
| Illustrations: |
XIV, 282 p. |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Springer |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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