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Hot action at work: A different understanding of “understanding”
Author(s) -
Beckett David
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
new directions for adult and continuing education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0717
pISSN - 1052-2891
DOI - 10.1002/ace.42
Subject(s) - action (physics) , ask price , adult education , action learning , adult learning , psychology , work (physics) , state (computer science) , cognitive science , pedagogy , teaching method , computer science , cooperative learning , engineering , economics , mechanical engineering , physics , economy , algorithm , quantum mechanics
This chapter offers a new approach to “understanding.” Instead of asking how the learning, through training, is represented to the learner—Has there been a change in the state of the learner?—we need to ask a more profound question: What inferences can now be articulated by the learner?