First person perspective, objectivity and language
(2006) AERA (American Educational Research Association) Annual Meeting, 2006- Abstract
- In the research project The interplay between language and thought in understanding problems from a student perspective, we have analysed students’ understandings of a physical event. The investigation is done from a first person perspective since we are interested in students’ conceptualisations. In discussions about the physical event of throwing a ball, students describe the event in different ways. We are scrutinizing how they use language to express their understandings. The explanations given in the discussions of the event differ from student to student. Through a detailed analysis of different uses of expressions we are able to characterise the different meanings expressed by use of the same expression and how the use and meaning... (More)
- In the research project The interplay between language and thought in understanding problems from a student perspective, we have analysed students’ understandings of a physical event. The investigation is done from a first person perspective since we are interested in students’ conceptualisations. In discussions about the physical event of throwing a ball, students describe the event in different ways. We are scrutinizing how they use language to express their understandings. The explanations given in the discussions of the event differ from student to student. Through a detailed analysis of different uses of expressions we are able to characterise the different meanings expressed by use of the same expression and how the use and meaning of expressions vary and change due to reflection over expressions and their meanings .We find a first person and agent perspective, in line with an intentional expressive view on language meaning and understanding, to be fundamental in understanding students use of language in their understanding and learning of subject matter. (Less)
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- author
- Johansson, Thorsten and Svensson, Lennart LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2006
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- unpublished
- subject
- keywords
- first person perspective, agent perspective, meaning, conceptualisation, understanding., language
- pages
- 10 pages
- conference name
- AERA (American Educational Research Association) Annual Meeting, 2006
- conference location
- San Fransisco, United States
- conference dates
- 2006-04-08 - 2006-04-12
- project
- The interplay between language and thought in understanding problems from a student perspective
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 5c2a71a4-2ee5-440b-9cef-c19e63cf3f22 (old id 743364)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-04 14:05:11
- date last changed
- 2018-11-21 21:18:12
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abstract = {{In the research project The interplay between language and thought in understanding problems from a student perspective, we have analysed students’ understandings of a physical event. The investigation is done from a first person perspective since we are interested in students’ conceptualisations. In discussions about the physical event of throwing a ball, students describe the event in different ways. We are scrutinizing how they use language to express their understandings. The explanations given in the discussions of the event differ from student to student. Through a detailed analysis of different uses of expressions we are able to characterise the different meanings expressed by use of the same expression and how the use and meaning of expressions vary and change due to reflection over expressions and their meanings .We find a first person and agent perspective, in line with an intentional expressive view on language meaning and understanding, to be fundamental in understanding students use of language in their understanding and learning of subject matter.}},
author = {{Johansson, Thorsten and Svensson, Lennart}},
keywords = {{first person perspective; agent perspective; meaning; conceptualisation; understanding.; language}},
language = {{eng}},
title = {{First person perspective, objectivity and language}},
year = {{2006}},
}