1st Edition

Expertise, Pedagogy and Practice

Edited By David Simpson, David Beckett Copyright 2016
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

Expertise, Pedagogy and Practice takes as its focus recent work on situated and embodied cognition, the concepts of expertise, skill and practice, and contemporary pedagogical theory. This work has made important steps towards overcoming traditional intellectualist and individualist models of cognition, group interaction and learning, but has in turn generated a number of important questions... Read more

Introduction: Expertise, pedagogy and practice David Simpson and David Beckett

1. Education and Broad Concepts of Agency Christopher Winch

2. Practice and Group Learning Paul Hager

3. An Education in Narratives Shaun Gallagher

4. Cognitive Transformations and Extended Expertise Richard Menary and Michael Kirchhoff

5. Wittgenstein and Stage-Setting: Being brought into the space of reasons David Simpson

6. Distributed Cognition in Sports Teams: Explaining successful and expert performance Kellie Williamson and Rochelle Cox

7. Yoga From the Mat Up: How words alight on bodies Doris McIlwain and John Sutton

8. To Think or Not To Think: The apparent paradox of expert skill in music performance Andrew Geeves, Doris J.F. McIlwain, John Sutton and Wayne Christensen

9. Emergent Expertise? Patrick McGivern

Biography

David Simpson is Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and Adjunct Researcher at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He writes on the philosophy of language (pragmatics), epistemology (virtue epistemology), and the history of philosophy, specialising in Plato, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. He has a long-standing interest in lying, irony and the politics of communication.

David Beckett is a Professor of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He writes in adult workplace learning and professional practice, and is currently co-writing a book on complexity theory and thinking in the social sciences.