Beyond Agency: Sources of Knowing and Learning in Children's Science- and Technology-Related Problem Solving

Autor/inn/en	Kim, Mijung; Roth, Wolff-Michael
Titel	Beyond Agency: Sources of Knowing and Learning in Children's Science- and Technology-Related Problem Solving
Quelle	In: Cultural Studies of Science Education, 11 (2016) 4, S.1081-1101 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1871-1502
DOI	10.1007/s11422-015-9683-7
Schlagwörter	Problem Solving; Children; Individual Power; Learning; Intention; Knowledge Level; Comprehension; Science Education; Engineering; Design + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Problemlösen; Child; Kind; Kinder; Eigeninitiative; Lernen; Wissensbasis; Verstehen; Verständnis; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Maschinenbau
Abstract	In (science) education, primacy is given to agency, the human capability to act and, in this, to learn. However, phenomenological philosophers and societal-historical psychologists point out that agency, the purposeful (intentional) engagement with the world, is only the effect of a much more profound capacity: passibility, the capacity to be affected. In this study, we begin with what has been recognized as a fundamental condition of learning: learners cannot intentionally orient to the learning outcome because they inherently do not know it so that that knowledge cannot be the object of intention. In this study, we provide evidence for three empirically grounded assertions: (a) children do not intend new knowledge and understanding, which instead give themselves in and through materials and material configurations; (b) knowing-how is received (as unintended gifts) because our bodies are endowed with passibility, the capability to be affected; and (c) the new knowledge and understanding exists as and in social relation first. We suggest implications for engineering design in science classrooms. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01