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Conceptual Integration And Educational Analysis

Conceptual Integration And Educational Analysis

Conceptual Integration is a key operating principle in education and a powerful skill for any teacher. Two different concepts are brought together in a way that recognizes what is similar and different in them. This allows for an imaginative synthesis that can illuminate a complex process, such as when the heart is compared to a pump, or the cell to a factory. Good teachers do this intuitively all the time, but the act of conceptual integration is poorly understood and insufficiently researched.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format: 

240mm x 168mm

Pages: 

168

ISBN-13: 

978-0-7969-2509-1

Publish Year: 

october 2015

Rights: 

World Rights
Conceptual Integration is a key operating principle in education and a powerful skill for any teacher. Two different concepts are brought together in a way that recognizes what is similar and different in them. This allows for an imaginative synthesis that can illuminate a complex process, such as when the heart is compared to a pump, or the cell to a factory. Good teachers do this intuitively all the time, but the act of conceptual integration is poorly understood and insufficiently researched.

Introduction

1. Using conceptual integration for educational analysis: A step–by–step guide
Wayne Hugo

2. Where conceptual integration comes from and why it is useful for educational analysis
Wayne Hugo

3. Analogy but no disanalogy: The case of urban slums
Carol Bertram

4. An analysis of economic modelling used in school economics textbooks
Suriamurthee Maistry

5. Understanding teacher and learning movement between real–world and classroom genres via conceptual integration
Fiona Jackson

6. Conceptual integration in the development of alphabet knowledge
Claire Verbeek

7. The heart as a pump
Thomas Edward Sommerville

8. Conceptual integration in science: A solar system in an atom
Kavish Jawahar and Tabitha Mukeredzi

9. A transforming pedagogic space: The school crest
Jenni Karlsson

10. Conceptual integration in vector–kinematics
Nadaraj Govender

11. What conceptual integration isn’t: Examples from mathematics education
Iben Maj Christiansen

12. Conclusion: Conceptual Integration as a descriptive and prescriptive tool of analysis
Wayne Hugo

Carol Bertram is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of KwaZulu–Natal. Her research interests are broadly in curriculum and knowledge, and are currently focused on the empirical fields of history education and teacher learning.

Iben Maj Christiansen is a faculty member of the Department of Mathematics at Stockholm University and Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of KwaZulu–Natal. Her current research focuses on mathematics teachers’ knowledge and learning, with an emphasis on how mathematical discourses in instruction of novice teachers develop over time.

Nadaraj Govender is a physics education researcher in the School of Education at the University of KwaZulu–Natal. He is currently exploring ways to improve pre–service science teacher education through conceptual development research.

Wayne Hugo is Associate Professor of Education at the University of KwaZulu–Natal. He is committed to enhancing the description and analysis of educational processes.

Fiona Jackson is an applied linguist currently researching the knowledge base of the practice of English teachers. She has recently moved into media studies, focusing on representations of masculinity and on critical discourse analysis of media texts.

Kavish Jawahar is Lecturer of Science Education in the Department of Education at Rhodes University, where he works on the science BEd, PGCE, honours and master’s degree programmes. His PhD research focused on school science curriculum multi–literacy alignment.

Jenni Karlsson formerly a Senior Lecturer at the University of KwaZulu–Natal, is now engaged in establishing the Mzala Nxumalo Centre for the Study of South African Society, a research and training non–profit organisation. Her doctoral thesis, awarded by the University of London, was a visual study of apartheid and post–apartheid discourses embedded and being embedded in school space and spatiality.

Suriamurthee Maistry is an academic at the University of KwaZulu–Natal. His research interests are in economics pedagogy and economic education research.

Tabitha Grace Mukeredzi is Lecturer in the School of Education at the Durban University of Technology. Her research interests are in teacher professional learning, rural education, and mixed–mode/distance–education methodologies.

Thomas Edward Sommerville is semi–retired Associate Professor of Medical Education and Anaesthesia at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine. He mentors postgraduate students and is researching the nature of doctoral studies in the health sciences.

Clare Verbeek is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Cape Town. Her research interests are in teacher development and literacy development.