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Pulls together diverse theoretical & methodological approaches to the origin, structure, function, & development of intuitive conceptions; explores these in a diversity of academic disciplines; explicitly links theory & research to educ. implications.
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Contents: Preface. Part I: Introduction.B. Torff, R.J. Sternberg, Intuitive Conceptions Among Students and Teachers. Part II: Intuitive Conceptions and Student Learning.T. Ben-Zeev, J. Star, Intuitive Mathematics: Theoretical and Educational Implications. J.V. Wertsch, J.L. Polman, The Intuitive Mind and Knowledge About History. N.H. Freeman, M.J. Parsons, Children's Intuitive Understandings of Pictures. D.P. Fromberg, The Intuitive Mind and Early Childhood Education: Connections With Chaos Theory, Script Theory, and Theory of Mind. Part III: Intuitive Conceptions and Teacher Learning.H. Patrick, P.R. Pintrich, Conceptual Change in Teachers' Intuitive Conceptions of Learning, Motivation, and Instruction: The Role of Motivational and Epistemological Beliefs. A.W. Hoy, P.K. Murphy, Teaching Educational Psychology to the Implicit Mind. L.M. Anderson, Nine Prospective Teachers and Their Experiences in Teacher Education: The Role of Entering Conceptions of Teaching and Learning. S. Strauss, Folk Psychology, Folk Pedagogy, and Their Relations to Subject Matter Knowledge. D.R. Olson, S. Katz, The Fourth Folk Pedagogy.
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Bruce Torff, Robert J. Sternberg
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Pulls together diverse theoretical & methodological approaches to the origin, structure, function, & development of intuitive conceptions; explores these in a diversity of academic disciplines; explicitly links theory & research to educ. implications.
