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Teaching and Learning Science through Multiple Representations: Intuitions and Executive Functions
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Hansen, Janice; Richland, Lindsey Engle – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
Reasoning about visual representations in science requires the ability to control one's attention, inhibit attention to irrelevant or incorrect information, and hold information in mind while manipulating it actively--all aspects of the limited-capacity cognitive system described as humans' executive functions. This article describes pedagogical…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Attention Control, Executive Function
Teaching and Learning Science through Multiple Representations: Intuitions and Executive Functions
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Hansen, Janice; Richland, Lindsey – Grantee Submission, 2020
Reasoning about visual representations in science requires the ability to control one's attention, inhibit attention to irrelevant or incorrect information, and hold information in mind while manipulating it actively--all aspects of the limited capacity cognitive system described as humans' Executive Functions (EFs) (see Diamond, 2002). This…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Attention Control, Executive Function
Intuitive Knowing and Embodied Consciousness
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Lawrence, Randee Lipson – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2012
Intuitive knowing is one of the most complex and misunderstood ways of knowing. It is difficult to put into words and verbalize. Intuition is spontaneous, heart-centered, free, adventurous, imaginative, playful, nonsequential, and nonlinear. People access intuitive knowledge through dreams, symbols, artwork, dance, yoga, meditation, contemplation,…
Descriptors: Intuition, Adult Learning, Knowledge Level, Adult Education