Creating action schema based on conceptual knowledge
Much of constructivist pedagogy focuses on moving past direct instruction or “chalk and talk” to promote active construction of knowledge or teaching for understanding. In this article a group of teacherresearchers conducts two classroom investigations. The first is epistemological (structural) in nature, and the second is functional. In the first investigation, a student’s efforts to employ her conceptual knowledge to guide her actions is analyzed through the lens of a conceptual framework based...