Transfer and Learning Studies (Broadly)

  • Baxter-Magolda, M. Making Their Own Way: Narratives for Transforming Higher Education to Promote Self-Development. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2001.
  • Baxter-Magolda, Marcia B. Creating Contexts for Learning and Self-Authorship: Constructive-Developmental PedagogyNashville, TN: Vanderbilt UP, 1999.
  • Bereiter, Carl and Marlene Scardamalia. Surpassing Ourselves: An Inquiry into the Nature and Implications of Expertise. Chicago: Open Court, 1993.
  • Collins, Harry and Robert Evans. Rethinking Expertise. Chicago: U of Chicago, 2007.
  • Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice. “How Experts Differ from Novice.” How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2000. 31-50.
  • Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice. “How Experts Differ from Novice.”  How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2000. 51-78.
  • Cook, Scott D.N. and John Seely Brown. “Bridging Epistemologies: The Generative Dance Between Organizational Knowledge and Organizational Knowing.”Organizational Science. 10(1999). 381-400. Print.Dweck, Carol. Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development. Florence, KY: Psychology Press, 2000.
  • Haskell, Robert E.. Transfer of Learning: Cognition, Instruction, and Reasoning.  Orlando: Florida, Harcourt, 2001. Print.
  • Hatano, G. and J. G. Greeno.  “Commentary:  Alternative Perspectives on Transfer and Transfer Studies.”  International Journal of Educational Research 31, p. 645-654.
  • Kirsch, D. (2009). Problem solving and situated cognition. In P. Robbins & M. Aydede (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of situated cognition (pp. 264-306). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.​
  • Lauder, W., Reynolds, W., & Angus, N. (1999).  Transfer of knowledge and skills: Some implications for nursing and nurse education. Nurse Education Today, 19(6), 480-87.
  • Lave, Jean. “Situated Learning in Communities of Practice.” Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition. Ed. L. Resnick, J. Levine, and S.E. Teasley. Washington DC: APA, 1991. 63-82. Print. ​
  • McKeough, Anne, Judy Lupart, and Anthony Marini, eds.  Teaching for Transfer:  Fostering Generalization in Learning.  Mahway, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995.
  • Mestre, Jose P. Ed. Transfer of learning from a modern multidisciplinary perspective: Current Perspectives on cognition, learning, and instruction. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2005.
  • Meyer, Jan H. F., and Ray Land, eds. Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge. New York: Routledge, 2006.
  • National Research Council. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and SchoolNational Academies Press, 2000.
  • Pace, David and Joan Middendorf, eds. Decoding the Disciplines: Helping Students Learn Disciplinary Ways of Thinking. New Directions for Teaching and Learning 98 (Summer 2004).
  • Perkins, D. & Salomon, G. (1992). Transfer of learning. International Encyclopedia of Education. 2nd Ed. Boston: Pergamon Press. Retrieved on September 16, 2009, from http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/thinking/docs/traencyn.htm
  • Salomon, G. & Perkins, D. N. (1989).  Rocky roads to transfer: rethinking mechanisms of a neglected phenomenon.  Educational Psychologist, 24, 113-142.
  • Schwartz, D. L., Varma, S., & Martin, L. (2008). Dynamic transfer and innovation. In S. Vosniadou (ed.), International Handbook of Research on Conceptual Change (pp. 479-506). New York: Routledge.Sennett, Richard. The Craftsman. New Haven: Yale UP, 2008.
  • Tishman, S., E. Jay, and D.N. Perkins.  “Teaching Thinking Dispositions:  From Transmission to Enculturation.”  Theory into Practice, 32, p. 147-153.
  • Tuomi-Grohn, “Developmental Transfer as a Goal of Internship in Practical Nursing,” in Between School and Work: New Perspectives on Transfer and Boundary-Crossing (2003).
  • Tuomi-Grohn, Terttu, and Yrjo Engestrom, eds. Between School and Work: New Perspectives on Transfer and Boundary Crossing. Oxford: Pergamon, 2003.
  • Wenger, Etienne. Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
  • Wenger, Etienne, Richard McDermott, and William Snyder. Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge. Harvard Business School Press, 2002.
  • Wiggens, G. (11 Jan. 2012). Transfer as the point of educationGranted, and… Thoughts on Education.
  • Wiggens, G. (11 Jan. 2012). The research on transfer and some practical implicationsGranted, and… Thoughts on Education.

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