Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Authors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I: Theoretical and Historical Foundations; Chapter 1: Intuitions All Around Us; Introducing Nathan; Cognition and Action at the Individual and Social Levels; What Mediates Between the Individual and Social Levels?; Cognition and Action at the Level of the Social; Cognition and Action at the Level of the Individual; Embodiment and Confidence-Building Through a Zone of Proximal Development; Lensing the Individual and the Social

Mediation: Interactions Between Individual and Social Levels Some Summative Thoughts on Embodied Cognition; Embodied Cognition at the Level of the Individual; Embodied Cognition at the Level of the Social; References; Chapter 2: On the Nature of Disciplinary Intuitions; Opening Thoughts on Intuition and Disciplinarity; Sociological Arguments for Disciplinarity; Building an Epistemological Case for Disciplinarity; The Nature of Knowledge; On Intuition: How Our Senses Deceive Us, and Why This Is Actually a Good Thing; The Disciplinarity in Intuitions: Innate Abilities of the Mind

Disciplinary IntuitionsReferences; Chapter 3: Learning Through Intuition in Early China; Education in Classical Chinese Philosophy; Knowing That and Knowing How; Engaging the Individual; Building from Prior Knowledge; References; Chapter 4: Applying Disciplinary Intuitions to Classroom Contexts: A Constructivist Perspective; Introduction; Constructivism, Prior Knowledge, and Conceptual Change; Conceptual Change and Disciplinary Intuitions; Disciplinary Intuitions as a Resource to Address Student Misconceptions; Implications for Classroom Practice: Challenging Dispositions

Concluding RemarksReferences; Part II: Delving into Disciplines; Chapter 5: Developing Disciplinary Intuitions in the Natural Sciences; Introduction; The Example of Genetically Modified (GM) Crops; An Example from the Water Cycle; But What Happens for Counterintuitive Concepts?; References; Chapter 6: The Nature of Intuition in Design; Introduction; Sketching to Design; Design Intuitions and Curriculum Design; Design Context and Activities; Dialogue-in-Action; Teacher Co-drawing with Pupils; Conclusion; References

Chapter 7: From Seasons to Cisterns: The Nature of Geographical IntuitionIntroduction; The Nature of Geographical Intuitions; Geographical Intuitions and Curriculum Design; When Intuitions Pose Problems; Geography All Around Us - Opportunities for Developing Intuitions; References; Chapter 8: Second Language Intuition: Native Language and Linguistic Universals; Introduction; First Language Acquisition; Second Language Acquisition; Native Language Effects in Second Language Acquisition; Linguistic Universals in Second Language Acquisition