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Pacheco, Mariana – Educational Researcher, 2012
This essay addresses the value of leveraging the unique learning, thinking, and knowledge students develop in home-community spaces for school curriculum. The author explores "everyday resistance" to highlight a particular set of enacted political actions and practices in which students, families, and communities participate to negotiate the…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Hispanic American Students, Constructivism (Learning), Resistance (Psychology)
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Ruthven, Kenneth; Laborde, Colette; Leach, John; Tiberghien, Andree – Educational Researcher, 2009
European programs of design research have developed distinctive types of apparatus to structure and support the process of didactical design. This article illustrates how intermediate frameworks and design tools serve to mediate the contribution of grand theories to the design process, by coordinating and contextualizing theoretical insights on…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Epistemology, Models, Mathematics Education
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Ogawa, Rodney T.; Crain, Rhiannon; Loomis, Molly; Ball, Tamara – Educational Researcher, 2008
This article is intended to spark a discussion between two research communities--scholars who study learning and scholars who study educational organizations. A secondary purpose is to encourage researchers to look beyond schools to examine learning in other types of educational organizations. The authors outline a framework to guide research on…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Organizational Theories, Research Methodology, Organizations (Groups)
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Smith, Erick – Educational Researcher, 1995
Discusses Paul Cobb's distinction in learning research between psychological constructivism, the emergent perspective, and sociocultural theory, and examines his argument that it is reasonable to talk about knowing from each of these viewpoints. The author offers a refinement of Cobb's pragmatic approach in accounting for learning. (GR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Shepard, Lorrie A. – Educational Researcher, 2000
Presents a historical framework of classroom assessment, highlighting the key tenets of social efficiency curricula, behaviorist learning theories, and scientific measurement. Offers a contrasting social-constructivist conceptual framework that blends key ideas from cognitive, constructivist, and sociocultural theories. Elaborates on ways that…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Improvement, Educational Research
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Cook-Sather, Alison – Educational Researcher, 2002
Recommends attending to students' perspectives in education, critiquing various recent attempts to listen to students, including constructivist and critical pedagogies, postmodern and poststructural feminisms, educational researchers' and social critics' work, and recent developments in medicine and law. Contextualizes two challenges of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Feminism