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Paulo R. M. Correia; Ian M. Kinchin; Adriano N. Conceição – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2023
The evolution of concept mapping has benefitted from the robust theoretical basis provided by Ausubelian learning theory. However, for concept mapping to maintain its relevance and to keep pace with the evolutionary changes in the educational context, it is vital that educational researchers and classroom practitioners can augment this theoretical…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Semantics, Cognitive Structures, Learning Theories
Bussey, Thomas J.; Orgill, MaryKay; Crippen, Kent J. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2013
Instructors are constantly baffled by the fact that two students who are sitting in the same class, who have access to the same materials, can come to understand a particular chemistry concept differently. Variation theory offers a theoretical framework from which to explore possible variations in experience and the resulting differences in…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Instruction, Prior Learning, Learning Theories
Kinchin, Ian M.; Miller, Norma L. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2012
In an attempt to reveal potential threshold concepts in the field of higher education pedagogy, groups of university teachers (in the UK and in Panama) were encouraged to develop personal reflection upon their conceptions of teaching. This was initiated through concept mapping activities. It was hoped that this would help participants to address…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Concept Mapping, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
Greeno, James G. – Cognition and Instruction, 2009
Son and Goldstone (2009) provided orienting activities intended to increase personal engagement, and these activities reduced participants' transfer based on concepts of signal detectability theory. I offer a theoretical interpretation that differs from theirs. First, instead of assuming that activity is contextualized in some conditions and not…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Cognitive Structures, Student Attitudes, Epistemology
Mckeown, Ian – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
Entrepreneurship is increasingly viewed as a plural rather than singular endeavour. This paper develops a conceptual framework of team-based entrepreneurial learning, challenging the myth of the entrepreneurial "Lone Ranger" and revealing the significance of power structures in the SME management team in mediating what is and is not learnt.…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, Learning Theories
Iverson, Kathleen M. – Performance Improvement, 2009
This article presents a conceptual framework for the writing process to facilitate motivation, learning, retention, and knowledge transfer in readers of expository material. Drawing from four well-developed bodies of knowledge--cognitive science, learning theory, technical communication, and creative writing--the author creates a model that allows…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories
Reed, Stephen K. – Educational Psychologist, 2006
This article provides a tutorial overview of cognitive architectures that can form a theoretical foundation for designing multimedia instruction. Cognitive architectures include a description of memory stores, memory codes, and cognitive operations. Architectures that are relevant to multimedia learning include Paivio's dual coding theory,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Multimedia Instruction, Curriculum Development, Learning Theories
Koplowitz, Herb – 1979
The world presented to our senses is essentially continuous in space and time. The simplest observations of children have shown that we are not born with ways of "breaking up" the world. The structures of our knowledge must be developed, and the major issue this paper considers is how those structures develop. The discussion focuses on Jean…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Epistemology

Wittrock, M. C. – Elementary School Journal, 1991
Describes a model for generative teaching of comprehension that focuses on students' knowledge base and preconceptions; motivation; attention; and generation of new models and explanations. Generative teaching procedures for facilitating comprehension in elementary school are reported. (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attention, Cognitive Structures, Comprehension

Shapiro, Amy M. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 1999
Explores the relevance of hierarchies to information processing. Suggests that participants in all conditions create hierarchical representations as they work, and those in nonlinear conditions use this structure to guide their exploration of the material. An important function of hierarchies may be to define relationships between concepts.…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Cognitive Structures, Hypermedia, Learning Strategies
Yli-Luoma, Pertti V. J.; Naeve, Ambjorn – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2006
In the present study, a semantic perspective on e-learning theory is advanced and a modelling approach is used. This modelling approach towards the new learning theory is based on the four SECI phases of knowledge conversion: Socialisation, Externalisation, Combination and Internalisation, introduced by Nonaka in 1994, and involving two levels of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, Learning Theories
von Glasersfeld, Ernst – 1989
Like any apparently novel approach to the basic epistemological problems of "knowledge," the constructivist ideas that have spread in the last 20 years continue to generate a host of negative as well as a few positive reactions. This document focuses on some aspects of Radical Constructivism, as distinct from "trivial"…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
Nohda, Nobuhiko – 2000
Mathematics educators in Japan have traditionally emphasized mathematical perspectives in research and practice. This paper features an account of changes in mathematics education in Japan that focus on the possibilities of individual students as well as their mathematical ways of thinking. Students' mathematical thinking, mathematical…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries

Dijkstra, Sanne – Instructional Science, 1997
Constructivist theory argues that students construct knowledge for themselves and that each knows the world in a different way. The problem for education is how students can construct an "objectified" knowledge. Outlines an integrative framework for the description of information and problem-solving procedures and a problem-solving…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Constructivism (Learning), Instructional Design
Callison, Daniel – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1998
Presents a revised working definition of schema, lists four types of knowledge that individuals have (i.e., identification, elaboration, planning, and execution), and outlines issues in schema theory. The usefulness of schema in problem solving and information problem solving is discussed, and implications for teachers of information literacy are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Literacy