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Type: Thesis
Title: Conceptual mediation : a new theory and a new method of conceptual change / Edward Harry Lyndon.
Author: Lyndon, Edward Harry
Issue Date: 2000
School/Discipline: Dept. of Education
Abstract: This thesis presents a new theory and a new method of cognitive change, and reports on their practical application in the mediation between conflicting habits and/or skills, and between conflicting concepts in science education. The term, mediation, is here used to mean that an individual consciously attempts to bring about a reconciliation between his or her conflicting habits, skills or concepts. The development of a procedure for conceptual mediation is described both at a theoretical and a practical level. The results of an independent evaluation of its influence on the attitudes to the learning of mathematics and science amongst students at a public secondary school are also presented.
Dissertation Note: Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Education, 2000
Subject: Cognitive learning.
Science Study and teaching.
Mathematics Study and teaching.
Description: Copies of author's previously published works inserted.
Includes bibliographical references (12 leaves)
1 v. (various pagings) ; 30 cm.
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