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Wang, Jeremy Yi-Ming – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation examines the thesis that implicit learning plays a role in learning about scientific phenomena, and subsequently, in conceptual change. Decades of research in learning science demonstrate that a primary challenge of science education is overcoming prior, naive knowledge of natural phenomena in order to gain scientific…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Science Education, Science Process Skills, Intuition
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Towsey, Paula M. – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2009
This article presents what is possibly the first English translation of a 1930 manuscript related to Vygotsky's work (probably written by Vygotsky himself). This manuscript, the Zalkind Summary, is a five-point summary of his presentation to the First All-Union Congress on the Study of Human Behaviour in Leningrad in January 1930. This article…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology, Thinking Skills, English