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What Do New Views of Knowledge and Thinking Have to Say About Research on Teacher Learning
Ralph T. Putnam,Hilda Borko +1 more
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The authors argue that the shifts in world view that these discussions represent are even more fundamental than the now-historical shift from behaviorist to cognitive views of learning (Shuell, 1986).Abstract:
The education and research communities are abuzz with new (or at least re-discovered) ideas about the nature of cognition and learning. Terms like \"situated cognition,\" \"distributed cognition,\" and \"communities of practice\" fill the air. Recent dialogue in Educational Researcher (Anderson, Reder, & Simon, 1996,1997; Greeno, 1997) typifies this discussion. Some have argued that the shifts in world view that these discussions represent are even more fundamental than the now-historical shift from behaviorist to cognitive views of learning (Shuell, 1986). These new ideas about the nature of knowledge, thinking, and learning—which are becoming known as the \"situative perspective\" (Greeno, 1997; Greeno, Collins, & Resnick, 1996)—are interacting with, and sometimes fueling, current reform movements in education. Most discussions of these ideas and their implications for educational practice have been cast primarily in terms of students. Scholars and policymakers have considered, for example, how to help students develop deep understandings of subject matter, situate students' learning in meaningful contexts, and create learning communities in which teachers and students engage in rich discourse about important ideas (e.g., National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1989; National Education Goals Panel, 1991; National Research Council, 1993).read more
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Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A Framework for Teacher Knowledge
Punya Mishra,Matthew J. Koehler +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a conceptual framework for educational technology by building on Shulman's formulation of pedagogical content knowledge and extend it to the phenomenon of teachers integrating technology into their pedagogy.
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Professional Development and Teacher Learning: Mapping the Terrain
TL;DR: Teacher professional development is essential to efforts to improve our schools and as discussed by the authors provides an overview of what we have learned as a field, about effective professional development programs and their impact on teacher learning and suggests some important directions and strategies for extending our knowledge into new territory of questions not yet explored.
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Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics
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Improving Impact Studies of Teachers’ Professional Development: Toward Better Conceptualizations and Measures
TL;DR: The authors argue that the use of a common conceptual framework would elevate the quality of professional development studies and subsequently the general understanding of how best to shape and implement teacher learning opportunities for the maximum benefit of both teachers and students.
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Teacher Pedagogical Beliefs: The Final Frontier in Our Quest for Technology Integration?.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conceptual overview of teacher pedagogical beliefs as a vital first step to establish a similar link to teachers' classroom uses of technology, and describe important implications for teacher professional development and offer suggestions for future research.
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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Jeanne Lave,Etienne Wenger +1 more
TL;DR: This work has shown that legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice is not confined to midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, non-drinking alcoholics and the like.
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Thought and language
TL;DR: Kozulin has created a new edition of the original MIT Press translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar that restores the work's complete text and adds materials that will help readers better understand Vygotsky's meaning and intentions as discussed by the authors.
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Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning
TL;DR: Collins, Brown, and Newman as mentioned in this paper argue that knowledge is situated, being in part a product of the activity, context, and culture in which it is developed and used, and propose cognitive apprenticeship as an alternative to conventional practices.