A Research Framework for Creative and Imitative Reasoning

This conceptual research framework addresses the problem of rote learning by characterising key aspects of the dominating imitative reasoning and the lack of creative mathematical reasoning found in empirical data. By relating reasoning to thinking processes, student competencies, and the learning m...

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Published inEducational studies in mathematics Vol. 67; no. 3; pp. 255 - 276
Main Author Lithner, Johan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer 01.03.2008
Springer Netherlands
Subjects
Academic Achievement
Argumentation
Cognitive Processes
creative reasoning
Demonstrative reasoning
didactics of mathematics
Education
Educational environment
Focalism
Learning
learning difficulties
Learning Strategies
matematikdidaktik
Mathematical objects
mathematical reasoning
Mathematics
Mathematics Education
Pedagogik
Problem solving
Reasoning
Rote Learning
SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Socialvetenskap
Subject didactics
Textbooks
Thinking Skills
Ämnesdidaktik
Mathematical reasoning
Creativity
Rote learning
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Summary:This conceptual research framework addresses the problem of rote learning by characterising key aspects of the dominating imitative reasoning and the lack of creative mathematical reasoning found in empirical data. By relating reasoning to thinking processes, student competencies, and the learning milieu it explains origins and consequences of different reasoning types.
ISSN:0013-1954
1573-0816
1573-0816
DOI:10.1007/s10649-007-9104-2