Then there are the thinking dispositions that activate the other types of mindware. They are distinct from effectivities or capabilities, because without the inclination to put ideas into practice, potential for action will never be realized. So much for cognitive psychology. It is nicely reductionist, individual in nature, and amenable to scientific explanations by communication engineers such as Claude Shannon or professional communications specialists such as William Horton. And it works.
Good teachers have good systems of pedagogy.
They stimulate the recall of inert knowledge so students can discuss it, and then introduce students to a new situation that produces cognitive dissonance. Once students can explain the phenomenon using a more critical and mature reasoning, the new information is linked to the prior knowledge structure and replaces it. A combination of didactic and constructivist teaching usually works well. All about neurons This all made perfect sense until I started reading the book about neurons. Like cognition, the philosophy is still individual rather than social, but the whole notion of free will, controlling the senses, and the sense of the self is lost.