A new mechanism for transfer between conceptual domains in scientific discovery and education

Foundations of Science

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 129-155

  Cornuéjols, Antoine ^a   Tiberghien, Andrée ^b   Collet, Gérard ^b  

^a UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

Author keywords

Analogy; Conceptual learning; Reasoning; Scientific discovery; Teaching of physics; Transfer mechanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645445982     PISSN: 12331821     EISSN: 15728471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1011398802965     Document Type: Article

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