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...

Table of Contents:

• Frontispiece
• Preface
• 1. De/Constructing the Blind Spots of Constructivism
• PART A: PASSIVITY, UNCERTAINTY, UNDECIDABILITY
• 2. Learning and the Erasure of Knowledge
• 3. Radical Passivity in Learning
• 4. Radical Uncertainty in Acting
• 5. Emergence of Duality
• PART B: OTHERNESS
• 6. Talking Conceptions without Conceptions
• 7. Thought Follows Communication
• 8. Otherness of Self
• 9. The Nonsense of Meaning
• PART C: PASSIONS
• 10. Emotion, Motives, Motivations
• 11. Crises, Suffering, Joy
• 12. From Incarnation to Responsibility
• PART D: EPILOGUE
• 13. Sublating the Constructivist Metaphor
• References
• Index.