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Luntley, Michael – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2005
In this paper I propose a contrast between learning as the acquisition of theories and learning as the development of insight. I then suggest that, in a great many cases, the cognitive achievement by which we come to organise behaviour rationally is the development of insight, where this is independent of the acquisition of knowledge regimented in…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Cognitive Processes, Learning, Epistemology