The Nature of Disciplinary and Domain Learning: The Knowledge, Interest, and Strategic Dimensions of Learning From Subject Matter Text

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The Nature of Disciplinary and Domain Learning: The Knowledge, Interest, and Strategic Dimensions of Learning From Subject Matter Text

ABSTRACT

In training a child to activity of thought, above all things we must beware of what I will call “inert ideas”—that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations