Disciplinary Intuitions and the Design of Learning Environments

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lim, Kenneth Y. T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Education.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Curriculum Studies.; Learning & Instruction.; Educational Psychology.

As children, we would have spilt glasses of milk, dropped things, and broken things. As children, therefore, we would have developed intuitions about how the world ‘works’, but we would not necessarily have been able to explain these ‘workings’. It would only have been till we entered formal schooli...