Learning and Awareness

ISBN-13: 9780805824551 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 236 str.

Ference Marton; Shirley Booth

Opis

This book is about learning; not learning in all its shapes and forms but learning in a particular sense - learning as coming to experience the world, or aspects of the world, in particular ways. It stems from more than 25 years of systematic research into the experience of learning undertaken by a research team trying to account for the obvious differences between more or less successful instances of learning in educational insitutions. The book offers an answer in terms of the discovery of critical differences in the structure of the learner's awareness and critical differences in the meaning of the learner's world. The authors offer a detailed account of the empirical findings that give rise to theoretical insights, and discuss the particular form of qualitative research that has been employed and developed.

Recenzje

"...(the authors') book makes a strong point that the art of teaching some things to some men (and women and children) can be developed if we understand how these men (and women and children) experience what is to be learned in the the context of their world."
—Journal of Curriculum Studies

Spis treści

Contents: Prologue. Acknowledgements. What Does It Take to Learn? Qualitative Differences in Learning. The Experience of Learning. Revealing Educationally Critical Differences in Our Understanding of the World Around Us. The Anatomy of Awareness. The Idea of Phenomenography. Learning to Experience. A Pedagogy of Awareness. Epilogue.

O autorze

Marton, Ference; Booth, Shirley