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Katrina Alford – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As the world faces increasingly complex issues, there is a recognition in many disciplines that the existing paradigm of reductionist and linear thinking is not enough to address these issues. The agriculture, food, and natural resources fields are facing a host of issues that defy solutions in part because of the level of complexity. Systems…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Models, Classification, Agricultural Education
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Ghalichi, Narmin; Schuchardt, Anita; Roehrig, Gillian – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Developing students' ability to think about systems, as opposed to isolated facts, is of central importance in much of science teaching. Prior work in this area has focused on students' recognition of the processes occurring within a system. Comparatively, little work has been done on how students organise the objects that are contained within the…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills
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Zhang, Yin; Chu, Samuel K. W. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
In recent years, a number of models concerning problem solving systems have been put forward. However, many of them stress on technology and neglect the research of problem solving itself, especially the learning mechanism related to problem solving. In this paper, we analyze the learning mechanism of problem solving, and propose that when…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Problem Solving, Foreign Countries, Information Processing
Tierney, Benjamin P. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The complex topic of global climate change continues to be a challenging yet important topic among science educators and researchers. This mixed methods study adds to the growing research by investigating student conceptions of climate change from a system theory perspective (Von Bertalanffy, 1968) by asking the question, "How do differences…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Student Attitudes, Classification