Conceptual Coherence in Philosophy Education - Visualizing Initial Conceptions of Philosophy Students with Self-Organizing Maps
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We present a framework for research on coherence of student conceptions in philosophy education. Commonsense conceptions of philosophical novices were studied. Students of a Finnish upper secondary school with no prior background in philosophy were asked to evaluate statements on conceptual issues in the domains of philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. The results were visualized with Kohonen self-organizingmaps (SOM), enabling us to identify clusters of students and questions with similar response patterns. The results are interpreted in terms of students’ ontological commitments.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008