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Henderson, J. Bryan; MacPherson, Anna; Osborne, Jonathan; Wild, Andrew – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This paper argues that science education has overemphasized the importance of construction at the expense of critique. In doing so, it draws on two key premises--Ford's argument that the construction of knowledge requires a dialectic between construction and critique and Mercier and Sperber's theory of argumentative reasoning that critique is…
Descriptors: Role, Science Education, Epistemology, Literacy
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Tjoe, Hartono; de la Torre, Jimmy – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2014
In this paper, we discuss the process of identifying and validating students' abilities to think proportionally. More specifically, we describe the methodology we used to identify these proportional reasoning attributes, beginning with the selection and review of relevant literature on proportional reasoning. We then continue with the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Mathematical Concepts, Thinking Skills, Theory Practice Relationship