CMNS 2228 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Theism, Collaborative Learning, Episteme
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Albert einstein theory provides the framework or lens for our observations . Two polar opposites: what we call scientific" (hypothesis-driven or experimental) theory and. Hard science vs. soft social science theories, pure science vs. Theories of learning are based on epistemologies, scientific methods and the views of knowledge communities of the time. Two major epistemologies of the 20th and 21st centuries. Objectivist epistemology (teacher to student/passed down and memorized knowledge) (reflected in behaviourist and cognitivist theories of learning) Objectivist view holds that knowledge is a kind of substance contained in and given form by the vessel we call the mind. The purpose of teaching is t transfer knowledge from the fuller vessels to the less full. Objectivist believes that there exists an objective and reliable set of facts, principles, and theories that either have been or will be discovered and delineated over the course of time.