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Chi, Michelene T. H.; Brem, Sarah K. – Educational Psychologist, 2009
Ohlsson's proposal of resubsumption as the dominant process in conceptual, or nonmonotonic, change presents a worthy challenge to more established theories, such as Chi's theory of ontological shift. The two approaches differ primarily in that Ohlsson's theory emphasizes a process of learning in which narrower, more specific concepts are subsumed…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Learning Processes, Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
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Hsu, Pei-Ling – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2010
This commentary dialogues with three articles that analyze the same database about science and religion discourse produced 17 years ago. Dialogues in these three articles and this commentary across space and time allow us to develop new and different understandings of the same database and situation. As part of this commentary, I discuss topics…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Persuasive Discourse, Databases, Religion