Guest Editors&#039; Introduction: Rethinking Methodology in the Learning Sciences

Guest Editors' Introduction: Rethinking Methodology in the Learning Sciences

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Title: Guest Editors' Introduction: Rethinking Methodology in the Learning Sciences
Abstract/Description: Situative (Brown, Collins, & Duguid, 1989; Greeno, 1997; Kirshner & Whitson,1997; Lave & Wenger, 1991) and distributed (Pea, 1993; Salomon, 1993) theories of cognition increasingly are being proposed as alternatives to the traditional individualist notion offered by cognitive psychology. From this perspective, knowledge, perhaps more aptly termed knowing about, is no longer conceived of as astatic structure residing in the individual’s head; instead, knowing is a process dis-tributed across the knower, the environment in which knowing occurs, and the activity in which the learner is participating. Thus, knowing and context are irreducibly co-constituted (Barab, Hay, Barnett, & Squire, in press; Greeno, 1998), and learning is (re)conceived as fundamentally constitutive of the contextual particulars in which it is nested (Cobb & Yackel, 1996; Lave, 1997). Environments developed to support such learning, what we are calling dynamical learning environments (DLEs), are not simply backdrops for supporting the transmission of content, but are considered dynamic arenas supporting trajectories of participation that are reciprocally constituted by and within context (Barab & Duffy, 2000; Cobb & Bowers,1999). How one begins to account for learning and the potential of a learning context to support learning is the focus of this special issue.
Author/creator: Barab, Sasha A.; Kirshner, David
Date: 2001
In publication: Journal of the Learning Sciences
Volume: 10
Issue: 1-2
Pages: 5-15
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Commentary/Editorial; en Methodological
IRE Approach/Concept: Learning Sciences
Open access/full-text available: en Yes
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISSN: 1050-8406
DOI: 10.1207/S15327809JLS10-1-2_2
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (Taylor & Francis); Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate); Full-text PDF Shared by Author (Academia.edu)
Citation: Barab, S. A., & Kirshner, D. (2001). Guest Editors’ Introduction: Rethinking Methodology in the Learning Sciences. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 10(1–2), 5–15. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327809JLS10-1-2_2
Cited in: The Work of Improvement

Item sets: Open Access Resource (IRE); Handbook Chapter 2 Citations

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