A theoretical framework used in the field of education known as schema theory 41 highlights that the way people engage with new material is influenced by their "schema" (existing topic knowledge and expectations).
Medical education makes use of several schemas in which knowledge and understanding is constructed and reconstructed and they are of different magnitude (Regehr and Norman 1996).
Content area literacy education has long been influenced by schema theory (Bartlett 1932).
Despite the importance of schemas for learning, memory, and education, the current field is lacking a consistent definition.
The development of expertise includes the use of schemas, developed from learned previous education, experiences, and/or tasks.
It has therefore become a mandate to apply more effective and efficient paradigms in the delivery of CME interventions, informed by adult education theoretical framework, while following a performance-oriented schema [ 12, 13].
Furthermore, beliefs and attitudes about evolution are embedded in already existing mental schema that encompass thoughts about science more generally, education, familial loyalty, or religion, and the nature of these schema affects how even the best science teaching is received.
Although the concepts of mental schema and related learning are widely used in psychology and education, their underlying neuronal mechanisms are poorly understood.
An important consequence for education is that without variation of chunks and links connecting them, schemas cannot be created (Gobet 2005).
It is a normative schema that fosters discussion concerning degrowth technologies in contexts of political education.
