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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450758903321

Titolo

The role of communication in learning to model [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Paul Brna ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2002

ISBN

1-138-01271-8

1-135-64003-3

1-282-59623-3

9786612596230

1-4106-0628-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrnaPaul

Disciplina

370.15

371.102/2

Soggetti

Communication in education

Education - Simulation methods

Models and modelmaking

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; I: Coordinating Representations; Chapter 1: Coordinating Mathematical With Biological Multiplication: Conceptual Learning as the Development of Heterogeneous Reasoning Systems; Chapter 2: Modeling in Teaching and Learning Elementary Physics; Chapter 3: Conceptualizing and Constructing Linked Models: Creating Coherence in Complex Knowledge Systems; II: Provoking More Effective Modeling; Chapter 4: Construction and Abstraction: Contrasting Methods of Supporting Model Building in Learning Science

Chapter 5: Cognitive Support in Computerized Science Problem Solving: Eliciting External Representation and Improving Search StrategiesChapter 6: Interactive Model-Building Environments; Chapter 7: Enhancing Reflective Modeling Through Communicative Interaction in Learning Environments; III: Collaboration and Language; Chapter 8: Modeling the Modelers: Communicating About Content Through Shared



External Representations; Chapter 9: Teachers' Explanations of Students' Collaborative Modeling Activities

Chapter 10: The "Power" of Text Production Activity in Collaborative Modeling: Nine Recommendations to Make a Computer- Supported Situation WorkChapter 11: Argumentative Interactions, Discursive Operations, and Learning to Model in Science; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, a number of experts from various disciplines take a look at three different strands in learning to model. They examine the activity of modeling from disparate theoretical standpoints, taking into account the individual situation of the individuals involved. The chapters seek to bridge the modeling of communication and the modeling of particular scientific domains. In so doing, they seek to throw light on the educational communication that goes on in conceptual learning.   Taken together, the chapters brought together in this volume illustrate the diversity and vivacity of