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ERIC Number: EJ604089
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0157-244X
Learning Difficulties Related to Graphing: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Perspective.
Roth, Wolff-Michael; Bowen, Gervase Michael
Research in Science Education, v30 n1 p123-39 2000
Illustrates the use of auto- and biographical materials as part of a research process concerned with problematic aspects of learning science. Draws on an extended study of graphing among university students and research scientists, and on the autobiography and interview data from one of the authors to point out some of the sources of difficulties with coming to understand graphs and graphing. (Contains 24 references.) (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Epistemology, Graphs, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Processes, Personal Narratives, Philosophy, Research Methodology, Research Problems, Research Reports, Science Education, Technical Writing
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Note: Special issue: Autobiography and Science Education.