Conceptual metaphor and embodied cognition in science learning. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tamer G. Amin, Fredrik Jeppsson, Jesper Haglund.
• Editors: Amin, Tamer G; Jeppsson, Fredrik; Haglund, Jesper
• Contents: Introduction: Conceptual Metaphor and Embodied Cognition in Science Learning Tamer G. Amin, Fredrik Jeppsson and Jesper Haglund 1. The Importance of Language in Students’ Reasoning About Heat in Thermodynamic Processes David T. Brookes and Eugenia Etkina 2. Varying Use of Conceptual Metaphors across Levels of Expertise in Thermodynamics Fredrik Jeppsson, Jesper Haglund and Tamer G. Amin 3. On Conceptual Metaphor and the Flora and Fauna of Mind: Commentary on Brookes and Etkina; and Jeppsson, Haglund and Amin Bruce Sherin 4. Applying Conceptual Blending to Model Coordinated Use of Multiple Ontological Metaphors Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Ayush Gupta and Edward F. Redish 5. Enacting Conceptual Metaphor through Blending: Learning activities embodying the substance metaphor for energy Hunter G. Close and Rachel E. Scherr 6. Some Challenges in the Empirical Investigation of Conceptual Mappings and Embodied Cognition in Science Education: Commentary on Dreyfus, Gupta and Redish; and Close and Scherr Rafael Núñez 7. An Analysis of Metaphors Used by Students to Describe Energy in an Interdisciplinary General Science Course Rachael Lancor 8. Understanding Starts in the Mesocosm: Conceptual metaphor as a framework for external representations in science teaching Kai Niebert and Harald Gropengiesser 9. From Stories to Scientific Models and Back: Narrative framing in modern macroscopic physics Hans U. Fuchs 10. On the Significance of Conceptual Metaphors in Teaching and Learning Science: Commentary on Lancor; Niebert and Gropengiesser; and Fuchs David F. Treagust and Reinders Duit 11. Conceptual Metaphor and the Study of Conceptual Change: Research synthesis and future directions Tamer G. Amin
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 370.1523; Cognitive learning; Science -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects; Metaphor
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315316901; 1315316900
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