Culture in Cognition: Toward an Integrative Analysis of Representation in Science

该项目的主要目的是整合认知和社会文化的方法来认知，然后建立一个框架，理解模型的建立和科学概念的变化，超越目前的辩论对科学实践的个人与社会文化的解释。 拟议的研究采用了“认知历史”的分析方法，它创造了一个科学实践的历史和当代研究之间的综合，一方面，和人类认知的认知科学调查，另一方面。 通过关注复杂的科学思维，这项研究将有助于推动认知科学对通常孤立对待的现象的整合。 此外，它预计将导致有用的教育研究人员谁是开发基于模型的课程K-12科学课程的新见解。

The main purposes of this project are to integrate cognitive and sociocultural approaches to cognition, then to build a framework for understanding model-building and conceptual change in science that transcends current debates about individual versus sociocultural explanations of scientific practices. The proposed research employs a `cognitive-historical` method of analysis, which creates a synthesis between historical and contemporary studies of scientific practices, on the one hand, and cognitive science investigations of human cognition, on the other. By focusing on complex scientific thinking this research will contribute to pressing cognitive science toward integration of phenomena usually treated in isolation. Further, it is expected to lead to new insights useful to educational researchers who are developing model-based curricula for K-12 science courses.