Chin and Osborne (2010a) conducted another study that showed that questionings prompted students to articulate their puzzlement, make explicit their claims and (mis conceptions, identify and relate relevant key concepts, construct explanations and consider alternatives especially when their ideas were challenged.
While dyads engaged in a concept explanation task (explaining the mechanism of computer processing), PCAs served as facilitators and provided metacognitive suggestions to better improve learning performance.
With the unusual happenings and the high-concept explanations, artists like Yoko Ono and Yayoi Kusama come to mind.
Pluralism applies widely to concepts, explanations, virtues, goals, methods, models, and kinds of representations (see above for graphic pluralism), etc.
The new Android Dev Center collects reference docs, tutorials, concepts explanations, and a Getting Started guide to ease developers in and keep frustration at a minimum.
The basic question of reduction is whether the properties, concepts, explanations, or methods from one scientific domain (typically at higher levels of organization) can be deduced from or explained by the properties, concepts, explanations, or methods from another domain of science (typically one about lower levels of organization).
The power of a visualisation, graphic, image, or diagram, is to stabilize ideas, problems, concepts, explanations and arguments in one place so as to influence the way people think about them.
Sarkar (1992) suggests that a notion of reduction is epistemic if and only if it cashes out reduction in terms of explanation, presumably based on the assumption that the concept of explanation is an epistemic concept.
As a neurologist, he has a materialist's innate suspicion of nonmaterial concepts and explanations.
There has been a great deal of philosophical work on the concept of explanation, and Wittgenstein's opinion is widely accepted (I certainly accept it) that it does not make sense to say that one sort of explanation will fit every case.
