Passibility: At the Limits of the Constructivist Metaphor - Couverture souple

Roth, Wolff-Michael

 
9789400737464: Passibility: At the Limits of the Constructivist Metaphor
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9400737467 ISBN 13 : 9789400737464
Editeur : Springer, 2013

Synopsis

This book argues that the ‘constructivist metaphor’ has become a self-appointed overriding concept that suppresses other modes of thinking about knowing and learning science. Yet there are questions about knowledge that constructivism cannot properly answer, such as how a cognitive structure can intentionally develop a formation that is more complex than itself; how a learner can aim at a learning objective that is, by definition, itself unknown; how we learn through pain, suffering, love or passion; and the role emotion and crises play in knowing and learning.

In support of the hypothesis that passibility underlies cognition, readers are provided with a collation of empirical studies and phenomenological analyses of knowing and learning science—in schools, scientific laboratories and everyday life—all of which defy a constructivist explanation. The author argues that ‘passibility’ constitutes an essential factor in the development of consciousness, with a range of essential experiences that cannot be brought into the linguistic realm. His exploration is guided by concepts such as ‘otherness’, passion, passivity and undecidability, and concludes by resituating the construction metaphor to accord it its proper place in a more comprehensive theory of learning.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Guided by concepts such as passion and undecidability, this book uses empirical studies and phenomenological analyses of knowing and learning science to argue that the ‘constructivist metaphor’ suppresses other modes of thinking about scientific learning.

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Éditeur
Springer
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9400737467
ISBN 13 
9789400737464
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Darmstadt
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  9400719078 ISBN 13 :  9789400719071
Editeur : Springer, 2011
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