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Department Affiliation: Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley
Email: adisessa@soe.berkeley.edu
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Research Interests:
Conceptual change;
intuitive knowledge related to science learning;
computational literacies
Courses:
- Conceptual Change
- Constructive Epistemology
Current work: "Patterns" - studying intuitive foundations of dynamical systems theory
Selected KiP-related publications:
Journal Articles
- diSessa, A. A. (1993). Toward an epistemology of physics. Cognition and Instruction, 10 (2-3), 105-225; Responses to commentary, 261-280. (Cognition and Instruction, Monograph No. 1.)
- diSessa, A. A. & Sherin, B. (1998). What changes in conceptual change? International Journal of Science Education, 20(10), 1155-1191.
- diSessa, A. A. (2007). An interactional analysis of clinical interviewing. Cognition and Instruction, 25(4), 523-565.
- Levrini, O., & diSessa, A. A. (2008). How students learn from multiple contexts and definitions: Proper time as a coordination class. Physical Review Special Topics: Physics Education Research, 4, 010107.
Book Chapters
- diSessa, A. A. (1983). Phenomenology and the evolution of intuition. In D. Gentner and A. Stevens (Eds.), Mental Models. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 15-33.
- diSessa, A. A. (1988). Knowledge in pieces. In G. Forman and P. Pufall (Eds.), Constructivism in the Computer Age. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 49-70.
- diSessa, A. A., & Wagner, J. F. (2005). What coordination has to say about transfer. In J. Mestre (ed.), Transfer of learning from a modern multi-disciplinary perspective (pp. 121-154). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
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