Teaching knowledge application: Advances in theoretical conceptions and their professional implications

We describe and examine a view of knowledge application in schooling develo ped om aspects of contemporary learning theory. To situate our perspective in contemporary practice, we establish the significance of the issue of kno wledge application as an educational challenge. We then review some endurin g theoretical conceptions of the problem and their educational ramification s following which we introduce some developments in educational learning th eory and consider their implications far teaching knowledge application.