Convergent cognition
Convergent cognition
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趋同认知
作者：
P. Rich;Keith R. Leatham;Geoff Wright
为了解决国际评估中暴露出来的缺陷和立法中的遗憾，许多学校正在减少或取消选修课，理由是用数学和语言艺术等核心科目取代“非必要”科目，将使学生在全球市场上处于更有利的地位。然而，有证据表明，系统地将一门核心学科与另一门互补学科配对，可能会导致两门学科都有更大的整体学习。在这篇文章中，我们分析了两个学科领域对-第一和第二语言，以及计算机编程和数学-以证明两个学科可以在哪些方面相辅相成。然后我们分析这些对之间的关系，以更好地理解鼓励我们所称的收敛认知的原则和条件，即当学习者学习两个互补的学科时发生的协同效应。
In an attempt to address shortcomings revealed in international assessments and lamented in legislation, many schools are reducing or eliminating elective courses, applying the rationale that replacing “non-essential” subjects with core subjects, such as mathematics and language arts, will better position students in the global market. However, there is evidence that systematically pairing a core subject with another, complementary subject, may lead to greater overall learning in both subjects. In this paper, we analyze two subject area pairs—first and second language, and computer programming and mathematics—to demonstrate in what ways two subjects might complement each other. We then analyze the relationships between these pairs to better understand the principles and conditions that encourage what we call convergent cognition, the synergistic effect that occurs when a learner studies two complementary subjects.