The Cognitive Apprenticeship Model in Educational Practice

Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 425-439

  Dennen, Vanessa P ^a   Burner, Kerry J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apprenticeship: A process through which a more experienced person assists a less experienced one by way of demonstration, support, and examples.; Articulation: In cognitive apprenticeship, verbalizing the results of reflective acts.; Coaching: In cognitive apprenticeship, assisting and supporting learners cognitive activities.; Cognitive apprenticeship: An apprenticeship process that utilizes cognitive and metacognitve skills and processes to guide learning.; Community of practice: A group of people bound by participation in an activity common to them all; may be formal or informal.; Exploration: In cognitive apprenticeship, forming and testing a personal hypothesis in pursuit of learning.; Modeling: In cognitive apprenticeship, demonstrating thought processes.; Reflection: In cognitive apprenticeship, self analysis and self assessment.; Scaffolding: Support that is provided to assist learners in reaching skill levels beyond their current abilities; essential to scaffolding is fading the support inversely to the learners acquisition of the skill that is being supported.; Situatedness: The context or constellation of influential events and elements that govern and shape human life.; Zone of proximal development (ZPD): A term coined by Vygotsky to describe the space between a learner s current skill level and the next skill level that the learner cannot reach without assistance.

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EID: 85144942117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203880869-38     Document Type: Chapter

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