Preface. 1. Types of Knowledge and Purposes of Education H.S. Broudy 2. Schooling and the Facilitation of Knowing John D. Brandsford, Kathleen E. Nitsch and Jeffrey J. Franks 3. The Languages of Instruction: On the Literate Bias of Schooling David R. Olson 4. The Representation of Knowledge in Memory David Rumelhart and Andrew Ortony 5. Remembering the Information from Text: The "State of Schema" Approach Rand J. Spiro 6. The Structure of Prose: Effects on Learning and Memory and Implications for Educational Practice Bonnie J.F. Meyer 7. Cognitive Development and the Acquisition of Concepts Katherine Nelson 8. Attitudes, Beliefs and Information Acquisition Robert S. Wyer, Jr. 9. We Know Who Knows, But Why? Earl Hunt 10. Processes in Acquiring Knowledge Allan Collins 11. The Acquisition of Knowledge in the Classroom David C. Berliner and Barak Rosenshine 12. Schooling and the Relevance of Research: General Discussion of the Conference Robert M. Gagne. The Notion of Schemata and the Educational Enterprise: General Discussion of the Conference Richard C. Anderson. Author Index. Subject Index.
