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Hur eller Varför?: Kunskap i sociokulturellt eller existentialistiskt perspektiv? En kritisk betraktelse
Dalarna University, School of Languages and Media Studies, English.
2009 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor)Student thesis
Abstract [sv]

This essay set out to propose a problematic interpretation of the socio-cultural perspective on learning. Its purpose is to show how the socio-cultural perspective on learning defines the concept of knowledge in an incomplete way. The aim becomes then that of giving a more comprehensive description of this concept, and, to this end, to construct a new, broader pedagogic discourse. The investigation starts with a deconstructive analysis of Roger Säljö’s socio-cultural text in order to point out the incompleteness of the concept of knowledge. The constructive part of the analysis proceeds using Heidegger’s and Sartre’s philosophical theories which take a general approach on human learning and on human knowledge as dependent on intuition. A dichotomy of two new concepts related to knowledge is thus defined: how-knowledge and why-knowledge. This reconceptualisation of the concept of knowledge allows a reinterpretation of any act of knowledge in a structural way. Hence any act of knowledge includes a moment (a) which defines the initial contextual (conceptual or practical) situation; a moment (b) which represents an algorithm, a procedure, or a theory; and a moment (c) which represents the result of the act, and is the direct application of knowledge as a finalized entity. Knowledge inbuilt in (a) and (c) is characterized as how-knowledge, while that in (b) is characterized as why-knowledge. In a learning situation a focus on how-knowledge implies finality and objectification of students. Conversely, why-knowledge implies students becoming subjects of their own learning.

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Falun, 2009. , p. 57
Keywords [sv]
Sociokulturell kollektiv kunskap objektifiering normalisering mannet subjekt intuition verksamhet non-place hur varför
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-4515OAI: oai:dalea.du.se:4515DiVA, id: diva2:518785
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Humanities, Theology
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Available from: 2010-02-02 Created: 2010-02-02 Last updated: 2012-04-24Bibliographically approved

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