Disciplinary Intuitions and the Design of Learning Environments

Kenneth Y. T. Lim is a Research Scientist at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prior to his appointment, he taught geography and social studies in several schools and junior colleges in Singapore, as well as served as a Curriculum Designer in the Ministry of Education. He received his Masters in Technology-in-Education from Harvard and built on this during his doctoral research on adolescent spatial cognition. Kenneth’s present research interests lie in maker movements and the affordances for learning of fictive worlds and virtual environments, for which he has developed the Six Learnings curriculum framework. As a theory of learning, Disciplinary Intuitions undergirds his work in maker movements and in immersive environments.

• PART ONE Theoretical and historical foundations.- Chapter 1 Intuitions all around us.- Chapter 2 On the nature of Disciplinary Intuitions.- Chapter 3 Learning through intuition in early China.- Chapter 4 Applying Disciplinary Intuitions to classroom contexts: a constructivist perspective.- PART TWO Delving into Disciplines.- Chapter 5 Developing Disciplinary Intuitions in the Natural Sciences.- Chapter 6 The nature of Intuition in Design.- Chapter 7 From seasons to cisterns - the nature of Geographical Intuition.- Chapter 8 Second Language Intuition: native language and linguistic universals.- Chapter 9 Manifestations of intuitions in the English Language.- Chapter 10 Disciplinary Intuitions in the English Language classroom: implications for practice.- Chapter 11 Surfacing Intuitions through visual novels.- Chapter 12 Mathematical Intuition and storytelling for meaningful learning.- PART THREE Coda.- Chapter 13 Disciplinary Intuitions as Praxis: the role of Intuition in Social Education.- Chapter 14 Misconceptions, Intuitions and Elementary Physics: harnessing everyday understanding in learning environment design.