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This collection of papers contributes to the tradition of model-related research in education, and it does so in both the fields of pedagogy and epistemology. Hopefully the papers will deepen understanding and move the research field forward. The ubiquity of models in the history and current practice of science is widely recognised. In the past half-century historians and philosophers of science have...
Despite its great importance, many students and even their teachers still cannot recognize the relevance of models to build up physical knowledge and are unable to develop qualitative explanations for mathematical expressions that exist within physics. Thus, it is not a surprise that analogies play an important role in science education, since students’ construction of mental models of abstract phenomena...
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