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Powietrzynska, Malgorzata; Gangji, Al-Karim H. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2016
In this manuscript we bring to focus student perceptions of salience (or lack of thereof) of emotions in the undergraduate conceptual physics course (in the teacher education program) and their relevance to teaching and learning. Our analysis of student responses to the Mindfulness in Education Heuristic constitutes a feedback loop affording the…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Science Instruction
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Ault, Charles R., Jr.; And Others – Science Education, 1988
Documents the patterns of coherence and persistence in energy conceptions. Describes the derivation of the Interview Vee technique and the procedure for putting an interview on the Vee. Discusses the production of Vee maps to help understand childrens' learning of concepts. (CW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Educational Strategies
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Magnusson, Shirley J.; Palinscar, Annemarie Sullivan – Theory into Practice, 1995
Examines the importance of learning environments as sites for change in science education, describing work with elementary teachers in which researchers are designing learning environments featuring guided inquiry. After explaining how to plan and enact guided inquiry instruction in science, the paper reflects on experiences implementing it in…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Discovery Learning, Educational Change, Elementary Education
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Roth, Wolff-Michael; Roychoudhury, Anita – School Science and Mathematics, 1993
Discusses Vee mapping, a technique to assist students in categorizing the relationship between the conceptual and procedural aspects of science. Presents a study to investigate elementary education majors' (n=27) use of the Vee heuristic and concept mapping for the construction of knowledge; attitudes toward learning science in collaborative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Constructivism (Learning)
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Moheno, Phillip B. B. – Catalyst for Change, 1991
Describes a university professor's project with prospective elementary teachers who read "Global Mind Change" (Willis Harmon), a book about postmodern science. The project included a content analysis of students' papers regarding students' ideas about the effective incorporation of philosophical and humanistic thinking into elementary…
Descriptors: College Students, Education Majors, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
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Klahr, David; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1993
Studied developmental differences in the search constraint heuristics used in scientific reasoning using 12 undergraduates, 20 community college students, 17 fifth to seventh graders (grade 6), and 15 third graders taught to use a programmable robot. Adults use domain-general skills that go beyond the logic of confirmation and disconfirmation.…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Development, College Students