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Title: | First, Learn to Boil an Egg: Towards a Pragmaticist Vision of the Physical Sciences | Contributor(s): | Fellows, Christopher (author) | Publication Date: | 2010 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/7895 | Abstract: | The potential usefulness of analogies drawn from physical chemistry in thinking about education is demonstrated by example. The pace of technological change means that knowledge acquisition is undergoing a phase transition from a kinetically-controlled process, where a primary role of the educator was in catalysing the rate of knowledge acquisition, to a thermodynamically-controlled process, where the rate of acquisition is essentially instant and the focus of the educator must be on facilitating the structuring of acquired knowledge into a coherent framework. The author reflects on the implications of this phase transition for the higher education sector in general and a regional Australian university in particular. The strategies employed by the author and his students in a fourth year chemistry coursework unit are shown and presented as a possible model for adaptation to the thermodynamically-controlled learning environment. | Publication Type: | Conference Publication | Conference Details: | ULT-Futures 2010: University Learning and Teaching Futures Colloquium, Armidale, Australia, 8th - 9th September, 2010 | Source of Publication: | Rethinking Learning in Your Discipline: Proceedings of the University Learning and Teaching Futures Colloquium, 2010 | Publisher: | University of New England, Teaching and Learning Centre | Place of Publication: | Armidale, Australia | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130212 Science, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogy | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 930201 Pedagogy | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | E1 Refereed Scholarly Conference Publication | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.une.edu.au/altc/ult-futures/ http://www.une.edu.au/altc/ult-futures/documents/ULT-Futures-2010-Fellows.pdf |
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