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Visualization in Mathematics, Reading and Science Education

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  1. Linda M. Phillips

    1. Fac. Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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  2. Stephen P. Norris

    1. Fac. Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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  3. John S. Macnab

    1. Edmonton, Canada

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  • Provides a thorough review of theoretical and research literature
  • Draws explicit connections between research and practice
  • Links mathematics and science learning, and reading, in unique ways
  • Written by experts in mathematics, science and reading education
  • Applies cognitive psychology to practical pedagogy
  • Places visualization in a historical context
  • Analyzes paper-, computer- and video-based visualizations

Part of the book series: Models and Modeling in Science Education (MMSE, volume 5)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. An Introduction To Visualization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Commonsense View and Its Problems

      • Linda M. Phillips, Stephen P. Norris, John S. Macnab
      Pages 3-7

    3. A History of Visualization in Psychology and Science

      • Linda M. Phillips, Stephen P. Norris, John S. Macnab
      Pages 9-18

    4. The Concept of Visualization

      • Linda M. Phillips, Stephen P. Norris, John S. Macnab
      Pages 19-34

    5. Cognitive Theory

      • Linda M. Phillips, Stephen P. Norris, John S. Macnab
      Pages 35-41

  3. Current Educational Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-44
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    2. Visualizations and Mathematics

      • Linda M. Phillips, Stephen P. Norris, John S. Macnab
      Pages 45-50

    3. Visualizations and Reading

      • Linda M. Phillips, Stephen P. Norris, John S. Macnab
      Pages 51-62

    4. Visualizations and Science

      • Linda M. Phillips, Stephen P. Norris, John S. Macnab
      Pages 63-74

  4. Cautions and Recommendations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Research and Guidelines on Computer-Generated Visualizations

      • Linda M. Phillips, Stephen P. Norris, John S. Macnab
      Pages 77-81

    3. Concluding Comments, Recommendations, and Further Considerations

      • Linda M. Phillips, Stephen P. Norris, John S. Macnab
      Pages 83-89

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 91-107
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About this book

Science education at school level worldwide faces three perennial problems that have become more pressing of late. These are to a considerable extent interwoven with concerns about the entire school curriculum and its reception by students. The rst problem is the increasing intellectual isolation of science from the other subjects in the school curriculum. Science is too often still taught didactically as a collection of pre-determined truths about which there can be no dispute. As a con- quence, many students do not feel any “ownership” of these ideas. Most other school subjects do somewhat better in these regards. For example, in language classes, s- dents suggest different interpretations of a text and then debate the relative merits of the cases being put forward. Moreover, ideas that are of use in science are presented to students elsewhere and then re-taught, often using different terminology, in s- ence. For example, algebra is taught in terms of “x, y, z” in mathematics classes, but students are later unable to see the relevance of that to the meaning of the universal gas laws in physics, where “p, v, t” are used. The result is that students are c- fused and too often alienated, leading to their failure to achieve that “extraction of an education from a scheme of instruction” which Jerome Bruner thought so highly desirable.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Fac. Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

    Linda M. Phillips, Stephen P. Norris

  • Edmonton, Canada

    John S. Macnab

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Visualization in Mathematics, Reading and Science Education

  • Authors: Linda M. Phillips, Stephen P. Norris, John S. Macnab

  • Series Title: Models and Modeling in Science Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8816-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8815-4Published: 17 September 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3335-0Published: 06 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8816-1Published: 02 September 2010

  • Series ISSN: 1871-2983

  • Series E-ISSN: 2213-2260

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 106

  • Topics: Science Education

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