CREATIVITY AND WRITING: CONCEPTUAL MAPPING

The article reveals the concept of conceptual mapping in the process of learning a foreign language. It is stated that a concept map is a diagram that shows the relationships between notions. Such maps are graphical tools for organizing and presenting knowledge. It is emphasized that the most useful form of a concept map for teaching and learning is one that is placed in a hierarchical organization, where more general and comprehensive notions are at the top of the map and more specific at the bottom. The difference between concert cards and mind maps is given. It is emphasized that despite a similarity of mind maps and concept maps, these two methods differ in many respects, in particular, concept maps are characterized by clear links between the described ideas and are more structured than mind maps, as a formally approximate description, which places ideas in some sequence and organizes them hierarchically by levels of importance.

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A STUDY ON PRE-SERVICE PHYSICS TEACHERS’ CONCEPTUALIZATION ON ELEMENTARY QUANTUM MECHANICS

Investigações em Ensino de Ciências ◽

10.22600/1518-8795.ienci2017v22n2p120 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 120

Author(s):

Glauco Cohen Ferreira Pantoja

Keyword(s):

Quantum Mechanics ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Data Analysis ◽

Physical System ◽

Quantum Physics ◽

Meaningful Learning ◽

Physics Teachers ◽

Conceptual Mapping ◽

Learning Patterns ◽

Similarities And Differences

In this work, we present the results of a research in which we aimed to evidence obstacles and advances in pre-service teachers’ conceptualization on a subject involving elementary Quantum Mechanics. We based our analysis on the theories due to David Ausubel and Gèrard Vergnaud to study Meaningful Learning patterns, both in predicative and operatory form of knowledge, of six students involved in a didactical intervention composed of six classes, in which we emphasized both similarities and differences between Classical and Quantum Physics. With this intervention, we intended to teach the concepts of Physical System, Dynamical Variables, State of a Physical System and Time Evolution. We guided our data analysis by the methodology of content analysis (Bardin, 2008) and it turned possible to map Meaningful Learning patterns involving the four concepts to which were associated a set of essential features (in the predicative stage) and a set of theorems-in-action (in the operatory stage) relating the aim-concepts in problem-solving or conceptual mapping.

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Conceptual Mapping of Insurance Risk Management to Data Mining

International Journal of Computer Applications ◽

10.5120/4791-7026 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 13-18

Author(s):

Dilbag Singh ◽

Pradeep Kumar

Keyword(s):

Data Mining ◽

Risk Management ◽

Insurance Risk ◽

Conceptual Mapping

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The complex nature of willpower and conceptual mapping of its normative significance in research on stress, addiction, and dementia

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x20000886 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 44 ◽

Author(s):

Veljko Dubljević ◽

Shevaun D. Neupert

Keyword(s):

Time Travel ◽

Mental Time Travel ◽

Complex Nature ◽

Coping With Stress ◽

Conceptual Mapping ◽

Future Events ◽

Normative Significance

Abstract Willpower (as suppression, resolve, and habit) has ramifications for autonomy and mental time-travel. Autonomy presupposes mature powers of volition and the capacity to anticipate future events and consequences of one's actions. Ainslie's study is useful to clarify basic autonomy in addiction and dementia. Furthermore, we show how our study on coping with stress can be applied to suppression and resolve.

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Conceptual Mapping, Visualisation, and Systems Thinking in Engineering

New Media Communication Skills for Engineers and IT Professionals ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-0243-4.ch006 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 72-93

Author(s):

Carol Russell

Keyword(s):

Systems Thinking ◽

Complex Adaptive Systems ◽

Adaptive Systems ◽

Engineering Project ◽

Technical Aspects ◽

Conceptual Mapping ◽

Complex Adaptive ◽

Simplifying Assumptions ◽

Technical Discussion ◽

Tacit Assumptions

Diagrams and maps have uses beyond the purely technical representations that engineers routinely use as part of their work. Diagrams can also help to clarify and resolve non-technical aspects of an engineering project, by visualizing hidden assumptions, values, and priorities that might remain tacit and unresolved in a purely technical discussion. This chapter shows how systems thinking and mapping allows soft interpersonal and social aspects of an engineering project to be represented and discussed alongside hard technological activities. Any map or model of a complex and dynamic socio-technical system requires simplifying assumptions. Complex adaptive systems theory provides a conceptual framework for identifying the limitations from different types of simplification. Examples from educational technology and from mining engineering show how various types of conceptual map can help in clarifying, negotiating, and combining different perspectives on technologies in a complex human context – to overcome barriers of specialist language and tacit assumptions.

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