knowledge-in-pieces

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a theory of learning and cognition which posits conscious conceptions and conceptual frameworks are constructed by recruiting more 'primitive' combinations of tacit knowledge elements, p-prims

"…the implicit knowledge elements act as kind of conceptual toolkit – or perhaps better, a kind of conceptual identikit set… from which elements that fit specific situations are selected" (Taber, 2019, p.456)

 

Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.