Ways of Knowing the Body, Bodily Ways of Knowing

Experts ' ways of knowing

Modern and Postmodern Ways of Knowing

Despite significant resistance, psychology is being dragged into the postmodern era. While many debate whether the postmodern era has officially begun, others argue that the postmodern era has already past by. This said, the emergent consensus is that these are postmodern times. Much of contemporary Western culture and academia is beginning to embrace this paradigm shift, though the field of ps...

Ways of knowing, learning, and developing.

The information age presents great opportunity to move from data to information to knowledge and potentially to go further to generate understanding and wisdom. As information is generated in ever smaller segments, however, and as we use information for increasingly narrow purposes, our understanding of the world is becoming more and more fragmented.1* Stunted development along this data-inform...

Collaborative ways of knowing: issues in facilitation

ABSTRACT This paper describes a detailed analysis of a student-centered problem-based learning group. The focus of this analysis is to understand the goals and strategies of an expert facilitator. This was accomplished by examining the questions and statements that the students and facilitators generated and inferring the facilitator’s goals and strategies. Studying facilitation in a face to fa...

Diverse Ways of Knowing and Learning: The Impact of Culture

Medical educators tend to approach teaching and learning grounded in their disciplines (content areas of expertise), culture of origin, and their own learning styles and ways of knowing. This article reviews dimensions for medical educators to consider in preparing themselves and their learners for maximum effectiveness through a lens of cultural awareness and understanding. Internationalizatio...