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...
In this book, Carl Bereiter--a distinguished and well-known cognitive, educational psychologist--presents what he calls "a new way of thinking about k...
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.
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....
