Guest Editors' Introduction: Rethinking Methodology in the Learning Sciences

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Guest Editors' Introduction: Rethinking Methodology in the Learning Sciences

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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)

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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

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