ABSTRACT

But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

5.1 Introduction .................................................................................... 94 5.2 Foundational Knowledge Perspective ........................................... 94 5.3 Non-Foundational View of Knowledge: Social Construction ....... 95 5.4 Knowledge and Language ............................................................. 96 5.5 Authority and Foundational Knowledge ........................................ 98 5.6 Situated Learning and Discourse ................................................. 100 5.7 Deep Learning and Social Interaction ......................................... 102 5.8 The Institutional Level: Learning Communities .......................... 103 5.9 Classroom-Level Pedagogical Implications ................................ 105 5.10 Students’ Attitude to Collaborative Learning .............................. 106 5.11 Summary ...................................................................................... 107 Practice Corner ...................................................................................... 108 Keywords ...............................................................................................110 References ..............................................................................................110

5.1 INTRODUCTION