Understanding Starts in the Mesocosm: Conceptual metaphor as a framework for external representations in science teaching
Understanding Starts in the Mesocosm: Conceptual metaphor as a framework for external representations in science teaching
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理解始于中宇宙：概念隐喻作为科学教学中外部表征的框架
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2015
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H. Gropengiesser
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Kai Niebert;H. Gropengiesser
近年来，研究人员已经意识到科学思想的经验基础。因此，研究表明，基于经验的源域和抽象的目标域之间的隐喻映射在日常和科学语言中无处不在。概念隐喻理论基于理解是具身的假设解释了这些发现。认知的理解来自于我们对环境的反复的身体和社会经验。由于我们的感知适应于一个中等尺度的维度，我们的具身概念起源于这个中观尺度。关于这一认识论原则，我们区分微观、中观和宏观现象。我们使用这些见解来分析微观和宏观现象的外部表征如何促进学习，当它们（a）通过提供中观体验来满足学生的学习需求或（B）通过表征其图像图式结构来帮助反思具体概念时。我们的考虑基于从微观世界（微生物生长和神经元中的信号传导）和宏观世界（温室效应和碳循环）的现象教学实验的经验证据。我们讨论了概念隐喻理论如何为外部表征的发展提供信息。
In recent years, researchers have become aware of the experiential grounding of scientific thought. Accordingly, research has shown that metaphorical mappings between experience-based source domains and abstract target domains are omnipresent in everyday and scientific language. The theory of conceptual metaphor explains these findings based on the assumption that understanding is embodied. Embodied understanding arises from recurrent bodily and social experience with our environment. As our perception is adapted to a medium-scale dimension, our embodied conceptions originate from this mesocosmic scale. With respect to this epistemological principle, we distinguish between micro-, meso- and macrocosmic phenomena. We use these insights to analyse how external representations of phenomena in the micro- and macrocosm can foster learning when they (a) address the students’ learning demand by affording a mesocosmic experience or (b) assist reflection on embodied conceptions by representing their image schematic structure. We base our considerations on empirical evidence from teaching experiments on phenomena from the microcosm (microbial growth and signal conduction in neurons) and the macrocosm (greenhouse effect and carbon cycle). We discuss how the theory of conceptual metaphor can inform the development of external representations.