Abstract
Marton (1988) distinguishes three types of competence which may form educational goals, namely, skills, knowledge and understanding. Skills refer to the way we do things and knowledge to what we know about phenomena that have already been discerned and conceived in some way. Understanding, on the other hand, refers to the way in which the phenomenon is discerned or conceived by the child.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1990 Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Pramling, I. (1990). General Theoretical Starting-Points. In: Learning to Learn. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3318-3_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3318-3_2
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-0-387-97122-3
Online ISBN: 978-1-4612-3318-3
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive