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EJ519125 SP524838
Title: Culture and the Sciences of Pedagogy.Author(s): Gordon, Edmund W.
Source: Teachers College Record, v97 n1 p32-46 Fall 1995
Publication Date: 1995
ISSN: 0161-4681
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Opinion papers (120)
Journal Announcement: CIJJUN1996
Discusses
the changing knowledge base for pedagogy, the domain of the pedagogical
sciences, and the intersection between these pedagogical sciences
and culture. The paper draws on cultural psychology as a basis for
pedagogy and details the implications for teacher education of the
view that knowledge is shaped by the cultural contexts in which
it is produced and interpreted. (SM)
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences; *Context Effect; *Cultural Context;
Culture; Higher Education; Instruction; *Knowledge Base for Teaching;
Preservice Teacher Education; Social Psychology; Social Sciences
