Making Meaning by Making Connections

• Main Author: Schuh, Kathy L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Educational Psychology.; Learning & Instruction.

This book documents those first links that students make between content they learn in their classrooms and their prior experiences. Through six late-elementary school case studies these knowledge construction links are brought to life. The links of the students are often rich in describing who thes...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1 – What Do Students Bring to School?
• Chapter 2 – What Do They Link?
• Chapter 3 – How is the Linking Process Prompted?
• Chapter 4 – How are School Content and What the Student Links Related?
• Chapter 5 – What Kinds of School Content and School Contexts Link?
• Chapter 6 – How is the Linking Process Supported or Inhibited in the Classroom?
• Chapter 7 – Of what Value are Student Links?
• Chapter 8 – How is Linking (and thus Learning) like Unlimited Semiosis?
• Appendix: Research Methods
• References
• Index.