Teaching for Transfer: Fostering Generalization in Learning - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805813098 ISBN 13: 9780805813098

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

The transfer of learning is universally accepted as the ultimate aim of teaching. Facilitating knowledge transfer has perplexed educators and psychologists over time and across theoretical frameworks; it remains a central issue for today's practitioners and theorists. This volume examines the reasons for past failures and offers a reconceptualization of the notion of knowledge transfer, its problems and limitations, as well as its possibilities.

Leading scholars outline programs of instruction that have effectively produced transfer at a variety of levels from kindergarten to university. They also explore a broad range of issues related to learning transfer including conceptual development, domain-specific knowledge, learning strategies, communities of learners, and disposition. The work of these contributors epitomizes theory-practice integration and enables the reader to review the reciprocal relation between the two that is so essential to good theorizing and effective teaching.

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McKeough, Anne; Lupart, Judy Lee; Marini, Anthony

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805813098
• ISBN 13: 9780805813098
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246
• Editor: McKeough Anne, Lupart Judy Lee, Marini Anthony