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"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 have a theory of mind that carries education into the knowledge age. The author situates and elaborates this theory of mind and discusses its practical educational implications. This work draws on 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, it is concerned with developing a way of thinking about the mind that works for the new challenges faced by education."

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Author:   Carl Bereiter
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.160kg
ISBN:  

9780805839425

ISBN 10:   0805839429
Pages:   540
Publication Date:   01 April 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. Part I: 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. Part II: 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.

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This fascinating book sets out a central argument about the construction of knowledge in two steps. One step is why a two-dimensional world based on a folk-theory of mind (FTM) should be replaced by a three-dimensional world based on Popper's epistemology without a knowing subject (PEWKS). The other step is how this replacement is advantageous for theory and practice in education. Carl Bereiter's book is a tribute to his good intent, the intent of bringing epistemology (back!) into education. -British Journal of Educational Psychology This is an excellent resource for educators at all levels, as well as for students of education and those involved in educational planning and reform. The creation of knowledge, or a constructivist view of education, and the goal of qualitatively (rather than quantitatively) higher standards comprise the focus of improvement in knowledge in a knowledge-based society -CHOICE Bereiter develops his position artfully with commonsense examples that traverse academic concepts, social cognition, and everyday problem solving. He holds the reader's attention with entertaining anecdotes that illustrate deep concepts. -Contemporary Psychology APA REVIEW OF BOOKS

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