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1 - An Introduction to the Learning Sciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

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R. Keith Sawyer
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R. Keith Sawyer
R. Keith Sawyer
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Summary

The learning sciences (LS) is an interdisciplinary field that studies teaching and learning. This chapter explains how the thirty-three chapters are organized. The chapter is grouped into four key themes: (1) a shift from thinking of knowledge as facts and procedures to a conception of knowledge as situated in visible practice; (2) an expansion of a view of learning from purely cognitive to a sociocultural view that also incorporates collaboration and conversation; (3) the role of technology in learning; (4) research methodologies used in LS. The chapter closes with a short history of the field of LS from the 1980s through the present.

Keywords

the learning sciencesconceptual understandingcognitivelearning environmentssocioculturalsituated practicedesignsocial justicetechnologymethodology
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences , pp. 1 - 24
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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