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  • 2 - Foundations of the Learning Sciences

  • from Part I - Foundations
  • Edited by R. Keith Sawyer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences
    Published online:
    14 March 2022
    Print publication:
    07 April 2022, pp 27-52

  • Summary

    This chapter describes the intellectual foundations that have influenced the learning sciences (LS) from its beginning, and identifies the core elements that unify many chapters of this handbook. Its theoretical influences include pragmatism, constructivism, sociocultural theory, situated learning, and distributed cognition. The chapter organizes LS research into two levels of analysis: the individual or elemental, and the sociocultural or systemic. The chapter reviews the methodologies that have been used to study each level of analysis and summarizes research findings at each level. LS research bridges research and practice and combines elemental and systemic perspectives on learning across a range of timescales of human behavior.