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Vanderburg, Willem H. – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2007
Our knowledge "system" is built up from disciplines and specialties as its components, which are "wired" by patterns of collaboration that constitute its organization. The intellectual autonomy of these components prevents this knowledge system from adequately accounting for what we have gradually discovered during the past 50 years: In human…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Intellectual Disciplines, Scientific and Technical Information, Science and Society
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Lucariello, Joan; Nelson, Katherine – Discourse Processes, 1987
Explores three aspects of temporally displaced talk between mothers and children: (1) the role of the knowledge base in such talk; (2) the effect of mother talk on child talk; and (3) the impact of such talk on the child's knowledge base. Indicates that maternal speech can mediate information and experience and contribute to the child's world…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Connected Discourse, Developmental Studies Programs