Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- 1 Types of Knowledge and Purposes of Education -- COMMENTS ON CHAPTER 1 BY BROUDY -- OPEN DISCUSSION ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS BY BROUDY AND PETRIE -- 2 Schooling and the Facilitation of Knowing -- COMMENTS ON CHAPTER 2 BY BRANSFORD, NITSCHE, AND FRANKS -- OPEN DISCUSSION ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS BY BRANSFORD, NITSCH, FRANKS, AND SCRIVEN -- 3 The Languages of Instruction: The Literate Bias of Schooling -- COMMENTS ON CHAPTER 3 BY OLSON -- OPEN DISCUSSION ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS BY OLSON AND ROTHKOPF -- 4 The Representation of Knowledge in Memory1 -- 5 Remembering Information from Text: The "State of Schema" Approach -- REMEMBERING: CONSTRUCTIVE OR RECONSTRUCTIVE? COMMENTS ON CHAPTER 5 BY SPIRO -- OPEN DISCUSSION ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS BY SPIRO AND ROYER -- 6 The Structure of Prose: Effects on Learning and Memory and Implications for Educational Practice -- COMMENTS ON CHAPTER 6 BY MEYER -- OPEN DISCUSSION ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS BY MEYER AND CARTER -- 7 Cognitive Development and the Acquisition of Concepts -- DEVELOPMENT, SCHOOLING, AND THE ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT KNOWLEDGE: COMMENTS ON CHAPTER 7 BY NELSON -- OPEN DISCUSSION ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS BY NELSON AND BROWN -- 8 Attitudes, Beliefs, and Information Acquisition -- COMMENTS ON CHAPTER 8 BY WYER -- OPEN DISCUSSION ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS BY WYER AND SHERIF -- 9 We Know Who Knows, but Why? -- INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN INFORMATION PROCESSING: COMMENTS ON CHAPTER 9 BY HUNT -- OPEN DISCUSSION ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS BY HUNT AND KORAN -- 10 Processes in Acquiring Knowledge -- HOLDING AN INSTRUCTIONAL CONVERSATION: COMMENTS ON CHAPTER 10 BY COLLINS -- OPEN DISCUSSION ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS BY COLLINS AND RESNICK -- 11 The Acquisition of Knowledge in the Classroom