Premium
Promoting creative confrontations
Author(s) -
Brna P.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of computer assisted learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.583
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-2729
pISSN - 0266-4909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2729.1991.tb00235.x
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , domain (mathematical analysis) , process (computing) , computer science , management science , dynamics (music) , epistemology , mathematics education , data science , psychology , artificial intelligence , pedagogy , engineering , mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , operating system
We outline a methodology for confronting students with the inconsistencies entailed by their own beliefs. We illustrate this with reference to one particular physics subdomain which stresses an understanding of process (how things are made to happen): the dynamics domain. The aspects of the methodology described are: the construction of a variety of situations which are expected to cause a student some conceptual difficulty; the predictions made by the student prior to modelling; and the observations of the student's attempts to model the situation. We use a case study to illustrate the approach.