Editors:
- Investigates the "hidden world" of expert creative reasoning in science
- Unpacks the role of imagery, analogy, and insight in "live" scientific thinking as it occurs
- Analyzes the largely uncharted domain of thought experiments based on mental simulation
- Examines similarities between creative thinking in students and experts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Analogies, Models, and Creative Learning in Experts and Students
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Expert Model Construction and Scientific Insight
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Creative Nonformal Reasoning in Students and Implications for Instruction
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Advanced Uses of Imagery and Investigation Methods in Science and Mathematics
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Transformations, Imagery, and Simulation in Experts and Students
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Advanced Uses of Imagery in Analogies, Thought Experiments, and Model Construction
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About this book
How do scientists use analogies and other processes to break away from old theories and generate new ones? This book documents such methods through the analysis of video tapes of scientifically trained experts thinking aloud while working on unfamiliar problems. Some aspects of creative scientific thinking are difficult to explain, such as the power of analogies, the use of physical intuition, and the enigmatic ability to learn from thought experiments. The book examines the hypothesis that these processes are based on imagistic mental simulation as an underlying mechanism. This allows the analysis of insight ("Aha!") episodes of creative theory formation. Advanced processes examined include specialized conserving transformations, Gedanken experiments, and adjusted levels of divergence in thinking. Student interviews are used to show that students have natural abilities for many of these basic reasoning and model construction processes and that this has important implications for expanding instructional theories of conceptual change and inquiry. "I regard this work as the most comprehensive account ever attempted to show how imagistic, analogic, and sensory-motor representations participate in creative thinking." Professor Ryan Tweney
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
John J. Clement
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Creative Model Construction in Scientists and Students
Book Subtitle: The Role of Imagery, Analogy, and Mental Simulation
Editors: John J. Clement
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6712-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6711-2Published: 25 June 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3023-8Published: 05 August 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6712-9Published: 10 June 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 602
Topics: Science Education, Educational Psychology, Educational Philosophy