Dealing with Conceptualisations of Learning: Learning between Means and Aims in Theory and Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9463510273 ISBN 13: 9789463510271

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

<p>This book addresses the multiple aims/means structure in educational processes of learning. Learning happens everywhere. When dealing with learning in educational contexts, means and aims always have both a normative and an instrumental content. Furthermore, learning always actualises itself in terms of methods and targets and must be viewed from a teacher’s as well as a student’s perspective.</p>

<p>The book deals with learning by using ‘means’ and ‘aim’ as metaphors and analytical categories. As a mean, learning is the description of ‘something which happens in a process’. As an aim, learning is the description of a kind of expertise, which might be the result of a learning process. In order to get an analytical grip of learning as a phenomenon in teaching and within student/teacher interactions, the book conceptualises and discusses the multiple aims/means structure, which we assume characterises processes of learning that involve a teacher and a student.</p>

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9463510273
• ISBN 13: 9789463510271
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146
• Editor: Qvortrup Ane, Wiberg Merete