The Role of knowledge in learning and instruction
By: Patricia A. Alexander, guest editor.
Contributors: Alexander, Patricia A.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Learning, Psychology of; Knowledge, Theory of; Educational psychology; Teaching
Other titles: Educational psychologist. Special issue.
Notes: "Special issue" of Educational psychologist (vol. 31, no. 2, Spring 1996)

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The past, present, and future of knowledge research : a reexamination of the role of knowledge in learning and instruction / Patricia A. Alexander; title: Views of knowledge acquisition and representation : a continuum from experience centered to mind centered / Ralph E. Reynolds, Gale M. Sinatra, and Tamara L. Jetton; title: Types and qualities of knowledge / Ton de Jong and Monica G.M. Ferguson-Hessler; title: Inert knowledge : analyses and remedies / Alexander Renkl, Heinz Mandl, and Hans Gruber; title: Turning examples into cases : acquiring knowledge structures for analogical problem solving / Peter Reimann and Thomas J. Schult; title: Knowledge-based cognition and performance assessment in the science classroom / Gail P. Baxter, Anastasia D. Elder, and Robert Glaser; title: Situating knowledge in learning and instruction : unanswered questions and future directions / P. Karen Murphy and Bradford S. Woods.