Australian Journal of Education articles from November 2000

Australian Journal of Education archives from November 2000

SPECIAL ISSUE Editor's introduction: Education and cognition--Naturalistic explorations into the nature of mind and learning.(Editorial)
November 1, 2000... My editorship of the Australian Journal of Education terminates with this special, Special Issue. I began my editorship (AJE, 40(1), 1996) by noting that I, like my predecessors, would be keen to stress issues in educational research that I...

Connectionist modelling and education.
November 1, 2000... Introduction The main aim of this paper is to describe and explain some recent work on artificial neural networks (ANNs) that should be of interest to researchers in educational studies. These networks are also known more generally in the...

Keeping the brain in mind.(how brain acquires knowledge)
November 1, 2000... On its own, a neuron firing has no meaning, no symbolic quality whatsoever... It is a level shift as drastic as that between molecules and gases that takes place when thought emerges from billions of in-themselves-meaningless neural firings....

Teaching computer programming: A connectionist view of pedagogical change.
November 1, 2000... One of the major issues of teaching computer programming is concerned with determining pedagogical factors that contribute to students' learning and instructional improvement. Classroom teachers are the keys to making learning happen as well as...

Changing conceptions of human intelligence and reasoning: Implications for the classroom.(education research)
November 1, 2000... This article lays out an alternative view of that which enables human competence, which is framed by complexity theory and draws on connectionism, and situated cognition. It suggests that developing the implications of such a view can provide...

The theory of multiple intelligences: A case of missing cognitive matter.(research)
November 1, 2000... Introduction Nearly 20 years ago, Howard Gardner mounted a challenge to conventional thinking on the nature of human intelligence with the presentation of a provocative new conception, which was neatly encapsulated in the title of his 1983...

Response to Nicholas Allix.(by Howard Gardner, intelligence theory)
November 1, 2000... Howard Gardner Michael Connell Harvard Graduate School of Education Note In what follows, the authors comment on Nicholas Allix's contentions about the theory of multiple intelligences. The first part of the response, directed...