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Incorporating Motivation into a Theoretical Framework for Knowledge Transfer 115Table 1Cognitivist Classical Approaches to TransferApproach Scope <strong>of</strong>transferIdenticalrulesAnalogyVery near;applies insituationsthat matchsimilarapplicationconditions<strong>and</strong> goalsNear for bothnovice <strong>and</strong>expert; farfor expertsKnowledge Transfer process EfficiencyProductionrulesExemplarsSchema Near to far Facts,principles,<strong>and</strong>constraintsAppliedautomatically ifapplicationconditions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>rule match <strong>the</strong>current context(1) Retrieve anexample, (2) align<strong>and</strong> map to <strong>the</strong>current context,(3) generateinference, (4)re-represent, <strong>and</strong>(5) learnDeclarative toprocedural:knowledgecompilation;constraintviolationHigh efficiency,appliedautomaticallyModerateefficiency;more similartaskrepresentationswill result infaster alignment<strong>and</strong> mappingLow efficiency,requires muchcognitiveresources <strong>and</strong> iserror pronetransfer in <strong>the</strong> laboratory raised important questions about <strong>the</strong> definition,assumptions, <strong>and</strong> processes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> classical approaches (Lave, 1988;Lobato, 2006). In this section, we briefly describe two <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> alternativeviews including situative transfer <strong>and</strong> PFL.The situative perspective postulates that knowledge transfer is deeplyinterwoven into <strong>the</strong> individual’s activity in <strong>the</strong> world (Greeno, 1997,1998; Lave, 1988; Rog<strong>of</strong>f, 2003; see Gruber, Law, M<strong>and</strong>l, & Renkl,1995 for a review). Transfer is dependent on a set <strong>of</strong> interrelationsbetween <strong>the</strong> individual <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> environment <strong>and</strong> it is this set <strong>of</strong> interrelationsthat determines <strong>the</strong> likelihood <strong>of</strong> transfer (Greeno, 2006). Transfer isdescribed as ‘‘patterns <strong>of</strong> participation’’ <strong>and</strong> it is <strong>the</strong> replication <strong>of</strong> thispattern that determines transfer to future contexts. Research programsthat employ this view examine how <strong>the</strong> environment affords particularways <strong>of</strong> participating in au<strong>the</strong>ntic activities (Brown, Collins, & Duguid,

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