Passibility At the Limits of the Constructivist Metaphor /

• Main Author: Roth, Wolff-Michael (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Classics in Science Education ; 3
• Subjects: Education.; Science education.; Education > Philosophy.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Science Education.; Educational Philosophy.; Educational Psychology.

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 int...