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Students' conceptions of and approaches to knowledge building: A phenomenographic method

  • Pei Shan Tsai
  • , Ching Sing Chai
  • , Joyce Hwee Ling Koh
  • , Nurul Huda Muhamad Jailani
  • , Angela Lay Hong Koh

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Abstract

This study explored primary school students' conceptions of and approaches to knowledge building using a phenomenographic method. A total of 48 students participated in present study. Five qualitative conceptions of knowledge building, namely "building up knowledge," "sharing ideas," "obtaining ideas," "discussing ideas" and "improving ideas," and five approaches to knowledge building, namely "seeking for the related information," "contributing what I know, " "receiving more ideas," "discussing ideas for better understanding" "getting feedback for making ideas refined" were revealed. These different and hierarchically related categories show the perspectives as experienced by the students. The results indicated that the students with fragmented conceptions tended to use surface approaches while those with cohesive conceptions tended to adopt deep approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2014
EditorsHiroaki Ogata, Lara Lomicka-Anderson, Ching-Sing Chai, Regine Hampel, Yusuke Hayashi, Julita Vassileva, Chen-Chung Liu, Wenli Chen, Jack Hsu, Yu-Ju Lan, Jon Mason, Masanori Yamada, Hsin-Yih Shyu, Amali Weerasinghe, Ying-Tien Wu, Li Zhang, Kinshuk, Yukihiro Matsubara, Yongwu Miao, Hiroaki Ogata, Siu Cheung Kong, Maiga Chang, Morris S. Y. Jong, Rita Kuo, Robby Robson, Barbara Wasson, Akihiro Kashihara, Ulrike Cress, Marc Jansen, Jun Oshima, Chengjiu Yin, Jianwei Zhang, Clark Chinn
PublisherAsia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education
Pages987-992
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9784990801410
StatePublished - 2014
Event22nd International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2014 - Nara, Japan
Duration: 30 Nov 20144 Dec 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2014

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2014
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNara
Period30/11/144/12/14

Keywords

  • Approaches to learning
  • Conceptions of learning
  • Knowledge building

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