Description
Book SynopsisIf our goal is Education for Knowing, as the title says, then we need to be guided by a conception of what knowing is. For example, we can all agree that there are math facts that students need to learn, and we can agree that there are general concepts and laws that students should be acquainted with. But is there more involved, perhaps something like nurturing in students a desire to probe deeper into the workings of thing? Or developing a capacity to explain why things work the way they do? Our conceptions of what genuine knowing is serve as guides to what we think the goal of education is, and they tell us how to build a student. However, as it turns out, there are multiple conceptions of what knowing truly involves, and these conceptions tend to be different for different sets of education stakeholders such as parents and their children, school administrators, and educational researchers. Understanding this diversity of conceptions of knowing will make it easier for representati
Table of Contents
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Conceptions of Knowledge I: Realism Versus Skepticism Chapter 2 Why Children and Their Parents are Natural Realists Chapter 3: Conceptions of Knowledge II: Contextualism and PragmatismChap. 4 Policy-makers and Administrators as Contextualists and Pragmatists Chapter 5 Conceptions of Knowledge III: Instrumentalism , Evidentialism, and Social Constructivism Chapter. 6 Educational Researchers as Instrumentalists, Evidentailists, or Social ConstructivistsChapter 7 Bringing the Perspectives TogetherChapter 8 Sketching a Path Forward Glossary: 20-25 definitions of key terms ReferencesAbout the AuthorIndex
