Education and mind in the knowledge age

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Label

Education and mind in the knowledge age

Statement of responsibility

Carl Bereiter

Creator

• Bereiter, Carl

Subject

• Apprentissage, Psychologie de l'
• Cognitie
• Cognition
• Cognition
• Cognition
• Connaissance, Théorie de la
• EDUCATION -- Educational Psychology
• Educational change
• Educational change
• Electronic books
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Learning, Psychology of
• Learning, Psychology of
• Leerprocessen
• Pensée -- Étude et enseignement
• Psychologie de l'apprentissage
• Réforme pédagogique
• Science cognitive
• Sciences cognitives
• Théorie de la connaissance
• Knowledge, Theory of

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Bereiter argues that education's conceptual tools are inadequate to address the pressing educational challenges and opportunities of the times. Two things are required: first, to replace the mind-as-container metaphor with one that envisions a mind capable of sustaining knowledgeable, intelligent behavior without actually containing stored beliefs; second, to recognize a fundamental difference between knowledge building and learning--both of which are essential parts of education for the knowledge age. Connectionism in cognitive science addresses the first need; certain developments in post-positivist epistemology address the second. The author explores both the theoretical bases and the practical educational implications of this radical change in viewpoint. The book draws on current new ways of thinking about knowledge and mind, including information processing, cognitive psychology, situated cognition, constructivism, social constructivism, and connectionism, but does not adhere strictly to any "camp." Above all, the author is concerned with developing a way of thinking about the mind that can usher education into the knowledge age

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

370.15/23

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

LB1057

LC item number

.B47 2002eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography