International Handbook of the Learning Sciences [Paperback]

The International Handbook of the Learning Sciences is a comprehensive collection of international perspectives on this interdisciplinary field. In more than 50 chapters, leading experts synthesize past, current, and emerging theoretical and empirical directions for learning sciences research. The three sections of the handbook capture, respectively: foundational contributions from multiple disciplines and the ways in which the learning sciences has fashioned these into its own brand of use-oriented theory, design, and evidence; learning sciences approaches to designing, researching, and evaluating learning broadly construed; and the methodological diversity of learning sciences research, assessment, and analytic approaches. This pioneering collection is the definitive volume of international learning sciences scholarship and an essential text for scholars in this area.

Foreword, Janet L. Kolodner 1. Introduction, Frank Fischer, Susan R. Goldman, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver and Peter Reimann I. Historical Foundations and Theoretical Orientations of the Learning Sciences 2. A Short History of the Learning Sciences, Christopher Hoadley 3. Epistemic Cognition and Epistemological Development, Clark Chinn and William Sandoval 4. Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspective on Learning: Tensions and Synergy in the Learning Sciences, Joshua A. Danish and Melissa Gresalfi 5. Apprenticeship Learning, Julia Eberle 6. Expertise, Peter Reimann and Lina Markauskaite 7. Cognitive Neuroscience Foundations for the Learning Sciences, Sashank Varma, Soo-hyun Im, Astrid Schmied, Kasey Michel and Keisha Varma 8. Embodied Cognition in Learning and Teaching: Action, Observation and Imagination, Martha W. Alibali and Mitchell J. Nathan 9. Learning from Multipll3!