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Conceptual metaphor and embodied cognition in science learning
Introduction: Conceptual Metaphor and Embodied Cognition in Science Learning Tamer G. Amin, Fredrik Jeppsson and Jesper Haglund
1. The Importance of Language in Students’ Reasoning About Heat in Thermodynamic Processes David T. Brookes and Eugenia Etkina
2. Varying Use of Conceptual Metaphors across Levels of Expertise in Thermodynamics Fredrik Jeppsson, Jesper Haglund and Tamer G. Amin
3. On Conceptual Metaphor and the Flora and Fauna of Mind: Commentary on Brookes and Etkina; and Jeppsson, Haglund and Amin Bruce Sherin
4. Applying Conceptual Blending to Model Coordinated Use of Multiple Ontological Metaphors Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Ayush Gupta and Edward F. Redish
5. Enacting Conceptual Metaphor through Blending: Learning activities embodying the substance metaphor for energy Hunter G. Close and Rachel E. Scherr
6. Some Challenges in the Empirical Investigation of Conceptual Mappings and Embodied Cognition in Science Education: Commentary on Dreyfus, Gupta and Redish; and Close and Scherr Rafael Núñez
7. An Analysis of Metaphors Used by Students to Describe Energy in an Interdisciplinary General Science Course Rachael Lancor
8. Understanding Starts in the Mesocosm: Conceptual metaphor as a framework for external representations in science teaching Kai Niebert and Harald Gropengiesser
9. From Stories to Scientific Models and Back: Narrative framing in modern macroscopic physics Hans U. Fuchs
10. On the Significance of Conceptual Metaphors in Teaching and Learning Science: Commentary on Lancor; Niebert and Gropengiesser; and Fuchs David F. Treagust and Reinders Duit
11. Conceptual Metaphor and the Study of Conceptual Change: Research synthesis and future directions Tamer G. Amin
Biography
Tamer Amin is Associate Professor and Director of the Science and Mathematics Education Center in the Department of Education at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. His research focuses on the development of scientific understanding and reasoning, with a particular emphasis on how language relates to this process. He is currently co-editing (with Olivia Levrini) a forthcoming Routledge publication entitled Converging Perspectives on Conceptual Change: Mapping an Emerging Paradigm in the Learning Sciences.
Fredrik Jeppsson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Welfare Studies at Linköping University, Sweden. His research focuses on the teaching and learning of thermal science at different age levels. He has an interest in embodied cognition and, in particular, how metaphorical language can support students’ learning. He currently studies how primary students’ meaning-making of science content can be promoted by mediation through different semiotic modes (e.g. verbal language, body language, images, or models).
Jesper Haglund is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Docent in Physics with Specialization in Physics Education at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden. His research focuses on the teaching and learning of thermal science at different age levels. He has a particular interest in embodied cognition and how analogies and metaphors can support students’ learning. Recently, his study has focused on how infrared cameras can be used in open-ended laboratory activities.
