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Education and mind in the knowledge age

Author: Carl Bereiter
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Bereiter argues that 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 knowledge  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Carl Bereiter
ISBN: 0805839429 9780805839425 0805839437 9780805839432
OCLC Number: 46976506
Description: xiii, 526 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Pt. 1. Mind in a knowledge-based society. Our oldest unchallenged folk theory at last faces its day of reckoning --
Keeping the brain in mind --
Knowledge outside the mind --
The knowing mind --
Aspects of knowledgeability --
Learning to think differently about knowledge and mind --
Pt. 2. Education and knowledge work. Educational planning: reacting to the future --
Putting learning in its proper place --
Subject matter that matters --
Critical thinking, creativity, and other virtues --
Can education become a modern profession? Why educational reform needs a new theory of mind --
Appendix--Conceptual artifacts: theoretical issues.
Responsibility: Carl Bereiter.
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Bereiter argues that 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 knowledge building and learning--both of which are essential parts of education for the knowledge age. Connectionism in cognitive science addresses the first need; certain developments in post-positivist epistemology address the second. The author explores both the theoretical bases and the practical educational implications of this radical change in viewpoint. The book draws on current new ways of thinking about knowledge and mind, including information processing, cognitive psychology, situated cognition, constructivism, social constructivism, and connectionism, but does not adhere strictly to any "camp." Above all, the author is concerned with developing a way of thinking about the mind that can usher education into the knowledge age.

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