110b. Declarative knowledge is central to transfer
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The Importance of Knowledge for Transfer
Dewey asked to take back a lot of his statements and he says well really I kind of over did this a little bit on the progressivism but people don't remember that. People still talk about Piaget's theories as if they are still valid but they've been invalidated largely according to Anne Brown who has done research showing that young children don't follow these stages of development that Piaget said they do. Carl Barreiter says what is typically viewed as a failure of knowledge to transfer is actually an expertise effect. If a student knows nothing about a field it is not possible to go very deep the conceptual structures are not there making a similar observation about teaching with mik
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