Teaching for Transfer: Fostering Generalization in Learning

McKeough, Anne [Editor]; Lupart, Judy Lee [Editor]; Marini, Anthony [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0805813098 / ISBN 13: 9780805813098

Published by Routledge, 1995

About this Item

Used items may contain, highlighting, writing, and other previous signs of use. Used items may not contain CD's. access codes and other accompanying items when applicable.

Seller Inventory # 15A41385

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teaching for Transfer: Fostering Generalization in Learning
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805813098
• ISBN 13: 9780805813098
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 20 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

The transfer of learning is universally accepted as the ultimate aim of teaching. Facilitating knowledge transfer has perplexed educators and psychologists over time and across theoretical frameworks; it remains a central issue for today's practitioners and theorists. This volume examines the reasons for past failures and offers a reconceptualization of the notion of knowledge transfer, its problems and limitations, as well as its possibilities.

Leading scholars outline programs of instruction that have effectively produced transfer at a variety of levels from kindergarten to university. They also explore a broad range of issues related to learning transfer including conceptual development, domain-specific knowledge, learning strategies, communities of learners, and disposition. The work of these contributors epitomizes theory-practice integration and enables the reader to review the reciprocal relation between the two that is so essential to good theorizing and effective teaching.

About the Author

McKeough, Anne; Lupart, Judy Lee; Marini, Anthony