Coherent Knowledge Structures of Physics Represented as Concept Networks in Teacher Education |
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Authors: | Ismo T Koponen and Maija Pehkonen |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland |
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Abstract: | A characteristic feature of scientific knowledge is the high degree of coherence and connectedness of its conceptual structure.
This notion is also behind the widely accepted instructional method of representing the concepts as networks. We suggest here
that notions of explanatory coherence and deductive coherence naturally connect the structure of knowledge to the processes
which are important in constructing the concept networks. Of these processes, experimental method and modelling are shown
to be closely connected with explanatory and deductive coherence, respectively. From this viewpoint, we compare here how experts
and novices represent their physics knowledge in the form of concept networks, and show that significant differences between
experts’ and novices’ quality of knowledge become directly reflected in the structure of the networks. The results also show
how concept networks make visible both the structure of knowledge and the methodological procedures, which support its formation. |
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