Meanings are acquired from experiencing differences against a background of sameness, rather than from experiencing sameness against a background of difference: putting a conjecture to the test by embedding it in a pedagogical tool

Frontline Learning Research

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 24-41

  Marton, Ference ^a   Pang, Ming Fai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Critical experiment; Discernment; Phenomenography; Variation Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921323428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22953159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14786/flr.v1i1.16     Document Type: Article

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