The Learner’s Thinking

One of Keith's publications is:

Taber, K. S. (2013). Modelling Learners and Learning in Science Education: Developing representations of concepts, conceptual structure and conceptual change to inform teaching and research. Dordrecht: Springer.

The previous chapter is The Learner’s Understanding

Chapter 7 is The Learner’s Thinking

Contents:

  • A Study on ‘Scientists and Scientific Thinking’
  • Establishing a Meaning for ‘Thinking’
  • Thinking and Processing
  • The Significance of Preconscious Processing
  • Thinking as an Inclusive Term
  • Forms of Thinking Valued in Science Education
  • Scientific Thinking
  • Science-as-Logic: Logical Thinking
  • Creative Thinking
  • Analogical Thinking
  • Imagery
  • Critical Thinking
  • Problem-Solving
  • Metacognition
  • The Fallacy of ‘Machine Code’
  • The Limits of Computing Analogies for Cognition
  • A Different Type of Processing System
  • The Ghost in the Machine: Who Tunes Our Processing Networks?.
  • Emergent Systems
  • Key Terms from the Mental Register

The next Chapter is Knowledge in a Cognitive
System Approach

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