Expertise, Pedagogy and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138309944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 154 str.

David Simpson; David Beckett

Opis

This book examines important questions about learning and expertise through the lens of contemporary work in philosophy, cognitive science and pedagogical theory. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Spis treści

Introduction: Expertise, pedagogy and practice  1. Education and Broad Concepts of Agency  2. Practice and Group Learning  3. An Education in Narratives  4. Cognitive Transformations and Extended Expertise  5. Wittgenstein and Stage-Setting: Being brought into the space of reasons  6. Distributed Cognition in Sports Teams: Explaining successful and expert performance  7. Yoga From the Mat Up: How words alight on bodies  8. To Think or Not To Think: The apparent paradox of expert skill in music performance  9. Emergent Expertise?

O autorze

David Simpson is Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and Adjunct Researcher at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He writes on the philosophy of language (pragmatics), epistemology (virtue epistemology), and the history of philosophy, specialising in Plato, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. He has a long-standing interest in lying, irony and the politics of communication.

David Beckett is a Professor of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He writes in adult workplace learning and professional practice, and is currently co-writing a book on complexity theory and thinking in the social sciences.