What do new views of knowledge and thinking have to say about research on teacher learning?

The education and research communities are abuzz with new (or at least re-discovered) ideas about the nature of cognition and learning. Terms like ‘situated cognition’, ‘distributed cognition’, and ‘communities of practice’ fill the air. … Some have argued that the shifts in world view that these discussions represent are even more fundamental than the now-historical shift from behaviorist to cognitive views of learning (Shuell 1986).