1st Edition

Design Research on Learning and Thinking in Educational Settings Enhancing Intellectual Growth and Functioning

Edited By David Yun Dai Copyright 2012
312 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The key question this book addresses is how to identify and create optimal conditions for the kind of learning and development that is especially important for effectively functioning in the 21 st century. Taking a new approach to this long-debated issue, it looks at how a design research-based science of learning (with its practical models and related design research) can provide insights and... Read more

Dedication  Preface  1. From Smart Person to Smart Design: Cultivating Intellectual Potential and Promoting Intellectual Growth through Design Research, David Yun Dai  2. Intelligent Action as a Shared Accomplishment, Melissa Gresalfi, Sasha Barab, and Amanda Sommerfeld  3. The Interplay of Creative and Critical Thinking in Instruction, Judith A. Langer  4. Developing Validity and Reliability Criteria for Assessments in Innovation and Design Research Studies, Anthony E. Kelly  5. Design Research and Twice Exceptional Children: Toward an Integration of Motivation, Emotion and Cognition Factors for a Technology-based Intervention, Brenda Bannan  6. Designing a Learning Ecology to Support the Development of Rational Number: Blending Motion and Unit Partitioning of Length Measures, Richard Lehrer and Erin Pfaff  7. The Productive Disciplinary Engagement Framework: Origins, Key Concepts, and Developments, Randi A. Engle  8. Designing Adaptive Collaboration Structures for Advancing the Community’s Knowledge, Jianwei Zhang  9. Trajectories of Participation and Identification in Learning Communities Involving Disciplinary Practices, Joseph L. Polman  10. Does Playing the World of Goo Facilitate Learning? Valerie J. Shute, and Yoon Jeon Kim  Epilogue: Where Are We, and Where Are We Going?, David Yun Dai, Jianwei Zhang, and Zheng Yan  About the Editor and Authors

Biography

David Yun Dai is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Methodology, Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York.