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Murakami, Christopher D.; Siegel, Marcelle A. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2018
This narrative project used rhizomatic analysis and reflexivity to describe a layered process of responding to a student's identity of non-participation within an undergraduate science classroom. Mapping rhizomes represents an ongoing and experimental process in consciousness. Rhizomatic mapping in educational studies is too often left out of the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Plants (Botany), Teaching Methods
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Coley, John D.; Hayes, Brett; Lawson, Christopher; Moloney, Michelle – Cognition, 2004
Previous research (e.g. "Cognition" 64 (1997) 73) suggests that the privileged level for inductive inference in a folk biological conceptual hierarchy does not correspond to the ''basic'' level (i.e. the level at which concepts are both informative and distinct). To further explore inductive inference within conceptual hierarchies, we examine…
Descriptors: Inferences, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Schemata (Cognition)
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Komis, Vassilis; Ergazaki, Marida; Zogza, Vassiliki – Computers & Education, 2007
This study aims at highlighting the collaborative activity of two high school students (age 14) in the cases of modeling the complex biological process of plant growth with two different tools: the "paper & pencil" concept mapping technique and the computer-supported educational environment "ModelsCreator". Students' shared activity in both cases…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Concept Mapping, Models, High Schools