Transfer in School: Doing the Work of Producing, Recognizing, and Ratifying Transferable Actions

• In Event: 54.081 - Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: 54.081-4 - Teachers and Teaching: Understanding the Social and Cultural Context

Abstract

Broadly conceived, transfer is the application of knowledge in a context that differs from where it was learned. While it is important that knowledge be applicable outside of school, there are many contexts in which students need to recognize knowledge as applicable within school and yet outside of the initial classroom in which it was constructed. Teachers typically rely upon students’ ability to transfer knowledge from prior lessons, classes or grades. In the current paper, we explore how teachers and students co-construct moments in which they treat transfer as having occurred. By exploring this process within a classroom context, we aim to support a pragmatic approach to analyzing the kinds of transfer that play an immediate role in formal educational.

Authors

• Joshua Adam Danish, Indiana University

• Asmalina Saleh, Indiana University

• Andrea Sarah Gomoll, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Robert Sigley, Texas State University

• Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, Indiana University