The Nature of the Learner’s Knowledge

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The previous chapter is Knowledge in a Cognitive System Approach

Chapter 9 is The Nature of the Learner’s Knowledge

Contents:

  • Knowledge as a Problematic Notion
  • Public and Personal Knowledge
  • What Does It Mean to Know?
  • Knowledge as True Reasoned Belief
  • Finding a More Useful Notion of Knowledge for Science Education
  • Use of the Term ‘Knowledge’ in Science Education
  • Personal Knowledge
  • What Are the Cognitive Resources That Support Learning?
  • The Possibility of Distributed Knowledge

"For the purposes of this book, then, the term ‘knowledge’ will continue to be used, with the understanding that a learner’s knowledge refers to what they believe to be the case or simply consider as a viable possibility. Their knowledge is the range of notions under current consideration as possibly reflecting some aspect of how the world is. That is not knowledge as philosophers understand it, but it better fits common usage, and refers to what is relevant to science education researchers, where true, reasoned belief is an ideal of limited practical use in understanding learners."

The next Chapter is Relating the Learner’s Knowledge to Public Knowledge