Books in the Advances in Learning and Instruction Series series

Opens up theoretical perspectives and practical possibilities to analyze the learning opportunities emerging in the transitional zones between educational institutions and workplaces. This book draws on a range of ideas developed within constructivistic, socio-cultural and activity theory.

The authors examine theories and models that help to understand individual and social aspects of processes of learning, development of expertise, knowledge creation, and innovation. These processes are studied both in the contexts of education and work, and are illuminated with numerous examples, and interview data.

This volume provides a platform for discussing theoretical and methodological developments in the field of motivation research related to learning and instruction. It highlights how motivation research is reaching out beyond its own traditional domain of study.

Aims to collect papers on learning declarative knowledge and problem solving skills that involve multiple representations such as graphical and mathematical representations, knowledge at different levels of abstraction. This book covers approaches to this topic from different perspectives: educational, cognitive modelling and machine learning.