Knowing Teaching Poetically

Knowing and Teaching

FALL 1999 T TITLE of this article is also the title of a remarkable new book written by Liping Ma. The basic format of the book is simple. Each of the first four chapters opens with a standard topic in elementary school mathematics, presented as a part of a situation that would arise naturally in a classroom. These scenarios are followed by extensive discussion by teachers regarding how they wo...

Book Review: Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics by Liping Ma

Introduction: A Sea Change in Thinking, Knowing, Learning, and Teaching

Forty years ago, Marshall McLuhan discussed how media at that time influenced both messages and users.1 Today, we see a broader spectrum of more powerful information technologies (IT) providing a much wider range of capabilities for communication, entertainment, personal expression, and education. Studying how undergraduates use electronic devices to these ends—and in turn how they are actively...

Knowing How vs . Knowing That

More than forty years after Gilbert Ryle published his paper on "Knowing How and Knowing That" in 1945, 1 the problem of practical knowledge has still failed to establish for itself a secure position in the field of problems dealt with by analytic philosophers. Thus even today it can safely be asserted that it is discursive or theoretical knowledge, knowledge linguistically expressed, above all...

Emancipatory knowing: Hidden necessity

Background & Aim: Knowledge patterns in nursing are key foundation elements for the development of knowledge and practice. Carper identified four fundamental knowledge patterns; empirical, personal, ethical and aesthetic. Chain and Kramer added the pattern of emancipatory knowledge to Carperchr('39')s patterns. The pattern of emancipatory knowledge in nursing has been neglected. The aim of this...