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Transfer of Learning
Cognition, Instruction, and Reasoning
A volume in Educational Psychology

Author(s):
Robert E. Haskell
ISBN: 978-0-12-330595-4
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Copyright 2001 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved

Table of Contents Educators and educational psychologists recognize

transfer of learning as perhaps the most significant issue
in all fields of instruction. Transfer of learning cuts
across all educational domains, curricula, and methods.
Despite its importance, research and experience clearly
show that significant transfer of learning in either the
Foreword classroom or in everyday life seldom occurs. Simply put,
transfer of learning is illustrated by the phrases "It
Introduction, Pages xiii-xx reminds me of..." or "It's like..." or "It's the same as...".
First page PDF PDF (489 K) This book addresses the fundamental problem of how
past or current learning is applied and adapted to similar
Part I: What Transfer of Learning Is and/or new situations. Based on a review of the applied
educational and cognitive research, as well as on the
Chapter 1 - The State of Education and the Double Transfer of Learning Paradox, Pages
3-21 author's teaching experience with transfer of learning,
Purchase PDF - $31.50 this book presents a new framework for understanding
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and achieving transfer of learning.
Current education and educational psychology
Chapter 2 - Transfer of Learning: What It Is and Why It's Important, Pages 23-39 textbooks either lack or lament the lack of research and
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guidance to educators on promoting transfer of learning.
Thus this book is a necessary basis for all instruction
Chapter 3 - To Teach or Not to Teach for Transfer: That is the Question, Pages 41-55 and learning. Based on history and research, the book
Abstract Purchase PDF - $31.50 shows that transfer of learning is not just a technique of
learning or instruction, but a way of thinking and
knowing.
Chapter 4 - Transfer and Everyday Reasoning: Personal Development, Cultural
Diversity, and Decision Making, Pages 57-73
Key Features
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* The only nonedited educational book about transfer of
learning
Chapter 5 - A Brief History of Transfer and Transfer as History, Pages 75-92 * Written in a plain, easy-to-understand style
Abstract Purchase PDF - $31.50 * Illustrates how transfer of learning can be promoted in
the classroom as well as in everyday life
* Prescribes 11 principles for achieving transfer of
Part II: What Makes Transfer of Learning Work
learning
Chapter 6 - Knowledge Base and Transfer: On the Usefulness of Useless Knowledge, * Demonstrates how we reason using transfer of
Pages 95-113 learning
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Chapter 7 - The Spirit of Transfer and Personality: Motivation, Meaning, and Emotion,
Pages 115-134
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Chapter 8 - Cultures and Contexts of Transfer: Social Origins and Support Systems,
Pages 135-151
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Chater 9 - When Theory Fails: The Importance of a Learner's Theoretical Knowledge for
Transfer, Pages 153-169
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Chapter 10 - The two Faces of Practice: Transfer and That Old-Time Lesson Drill, Pages
171-188
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Chapter 11 - The Similarity-Based Brain: Evolutionary and Neurological Bases of

Transfer, Pages 189-204
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Chapter 12 - The Harmonic Structure of Mind: Higher Level Everyday Transfer Thinking,
Pages 205-218

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Coda - Deep-Context Teaching for Transfer, Pages 219-227

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Index, Pages 229-241

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