Overview
- Radically new, empirically based epistemology in science/technology-related knowing and learning
- Integrative treatment of emotion, motivation, and the passions in a comprehensive theory
- First/third person perspectives on critical aspects of learning in science
Part of the book series: Classics in Science Education (CISE, volume 3)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction/Deconstructing
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Front Matter
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Introduction/ Deconstructing
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Passivity, Uncertainty, Undecidability
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Front Matter
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Passion
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Front Matter
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Epilogue
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book argues that the ‘constructivist metaphor’ has become a self-appointed overriding concept that suppresses other modes of thinking about knowing and learning science. Yet there are questions about knowledge that constructivism cannot properly answer, such as how a cognitive structure can intentionally develop a formation that is more complex than itself; how a learner can aim at a learning objective that is, by definition, itself unknown; how we learn through pain, suffering, love or passion; and the role emotion and crises play in knowing and learning.
In support of the hypothesis that passibility underlies cognition, readers are provided with a collation of empirical studies and phenomenological analyses of knowing and learning science—in schools, scientific laboratories and everyday life—all of which defy a constructivist explanation. The author argues that ‘passibility’ constitutes an essential factor in the development of consciousness, with a range of essential experiences that cannot be brought into the linguistic realm. His exploration is guided by concepts such as ‘otherness’, passion, passivity and undecidability, and concludes by resituating the construction metaphor to accord it its proper place in a more comprehensive theory of learning.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Passibility
Book Subtitle: At the Limits of the Constructivist Metaphor
Authors: Wolff-Michael Roth
Series Title: Classics in Science Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1908-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1907-1Published: 05 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3746-4Published: 27 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1908-8Published: 05 August 2011
Series ISSN: 1875-3035
Series E-ISSN: 2213-2252
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 282
Topics: Science Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Psychology