Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ648001
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2002
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From Thing to Sign and "Natural Object": Toward a Genetic Phenomenology of Graph Interpretation.
Roth, Wolff-Michael; Bowen, G. Michael; Masciotra, Domenico
Science, Technology, and Human Values, v27 n3 p327-56 Sum 2002
Reports on a study designed to find out what scientists and science students actually do when they are reading familiar and unfamiliar graphs. Describes changes in ontologies of scientists and science students as they engage in the reading tasks assigned to them. Theorizes a transition of graphs from things to signs that come to stand for natural objects. (Author/MM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Graphs, Higher Education, Science Education, Scientists, Semiotics
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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