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In this book, Carl Bereiter--a distinguished and well-known cognitive, educational psychologist--presents what he calls "a new way of thinking about knowledge and the mind." He argues that in today's Knowledge Age, education's conceptual tools are inadequate to address the pressing educational challenges and opportunities of the times. Two things are required: first, to replace the mind-as-container metaphor with one that envisions a mind capable of sustaining knowledgeable, intelligent behavior without actually containing stored beliefs; second, to recognize a fundamental difference between...

Examines the nature of expert knowledge, the part that shows and the much larger part that is hidden, and offers an explanation of how it comes about. Hard work, practice, and experience are not enough to make an expert.

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This work argues that in today's Knowledge Age, education's conceptual tools are inadequate to address the pressing educational issues and challenges of the times. Two things are required: to get away from the idea of the mind as a container and to understand the role of individual minds in societal knowledge production. An alternative model is proposed that the brain does not actually contain knowledge that we readily conceived of. The need is to understand how a brain thus constituted could sustain knowledgeable, intelligent behaviour. It is this model that needs to be developed in order to...

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.