Supporting Lifelong Learning: Perspectives on Learning and by Julia Clarke, Ann Hanson, Roger Harrison, Fiona Reeve PDF

By Julia Clarke, Ann Hanson, Roger Harrison, Fiona Reeve

ISBN-10: 0415259266

ISBN-13: 9780415259262

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ISBN-13: 9780415259279

This Open collage Reader examines the practices of studying and instructing that have been built to help lifelong studying, and the knowledge and assumptions which underpin them. the choice of texts hint the widening scope of educational knowing of learning and instructing, and considers the consequences in case you improve programmes of studying. It examines in nice intensity these theories that have had the best influence within the box, theories of mirrored image and studying from event and theories of located studying. the consequences of those theories ar tested on the subject of topics which run around the reader, particularly, office studying, literacies, and the chances provided by means of info and communique technologies.
The specific concentration of this Reader is at the mental or cognitive phenomena that happen within the minds of person inexperienced persons. The readings were chosen to symbolize a number event in numerous sectors of schooling from world wide.

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213–229. Rogers, Carl R. (1961) On Becoming a Person, Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Shiel, Barbara J. p. Chapter 3 From Technical Rationality to reflection-in-action Donald Schön The dominant epistemology of practice According to the model of Technical Rationality – the view of professional knowledge that has most powerfully shaped both our thinking about the professions and the institutional relations of research, education, and practice – professional activity consists of instrumental problem solving made rigorous by the application of scientific theory and technique.

Axline, Virginia M. (1944) ‘Morale on the school front’, Journal of Educational Research, pp. 521–533. Bull, Patricia (1966) ‘Student reactions, Fall, 1965’, unpublished manuscript, New York State University College. Moon, Samuel F. (1966) ‘Teaching the self,’ Improving College and University Teaching, 14 Autumn, pp. 213–229. Rogers, Carl R. (1961) On Becoming a Person, Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Shiel, Barbara J. p. Chapter 3 From Technical Rationality to reflection-in-action Donald Schön The dominant epistemology of practice According to the model of Technical Rationality – the view of professional knowledge that has most powerfully shaped both our thinking about the professions and the institutional relations of research, education, and practice – professional activity consists of instrumental problem solving made rigorous by the application of scientific theory and technique.

Let me take an illustration from Virginia Axline, dealing with a second grade boy. Jay, age 7, has been aggressive, a troublemaker, slow of speech and learning. Because of his ‘cussing’, he was taken to the principal, who paddled him, unknown to Miss Axline. During a free work period, Jay fashioned very carefully a man of clay down to a hat and a handkerchief in his pocket. ’ asked Miss Axline. ‘Dunno,’ replied Jay. ‘Maybe it is the principal. ’ Jay glared at the clay figure. ‘Yes,’ he said. Then he began to tear the head off and looked up and smiled.

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