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“Profound and useful, readers will benefit from the systematic treatment of learning through superb scholarship. Cultural-philosophical-curricular-pedagogical-historical perspectives on learning, curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment, and learners make this collection unique.” - Carol A. Mullen, Professor of Educational Leadership, Virginia Tech Learning is a fundamental topic in education. Combining traditional views of learning and learning theory with sociocultural and historical perspectives, this Handbook brings together original contributions from respected researchers who are leading figures in the field. The editors provide a insightful introduction to the topic, and the theories, frameworks, themes and issues discussed in the individual chapters are central to each and every learning episode. The Handbook is organized into four sections, each beginning with a short introduction: • Philosophical, Sociological and Psychological Theories of Learning • Models of Learning • Learning, Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment • Learning Dispositions, Life-Long Learning and Learning Environments
Knowledge, Curriculum and Learning: ‘What Did You Learn in School?'
Knowledge, Curriculum and Learning: ‘What Did You Learn in School?'
INTRODUCTION
In my days as a teacher educator I would often begin my one-year postgraduate course by asking students to share with each other as much as they could immediately remember about what they had learned and been taught during the course of their own compulsory education, which in most cases spanned at least 13 years. Even though I would make it clear that it was not experiences or feelings that I wanted them to recall, but rather the formal curriculum knowledge they had taken away with them and the skills they had formally acquired and developed, it was very common ...
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