{"pk":27236,"title":"Modelling conceptual change as foraging for explanations on an epistemiclandscape","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We discuss here conceptual change and the formation of robustlearning outcomes from the viewpoint of complex dynamicsystems, where students’ conceptions are seen as context de-pendent and multifaceted structures which depend on the con-text of their application. According to this view the conceptualpatterns (i.e. intuitive conceptions) may be robust in a cer-tain situation but are not formed, at last not as robust ones, inanother situation. The stability is then thought to arise dynami-cally in a variety of ways and not so much mirror rigid ontolog-ical categories or static intuitive conceptions. We use compu-tational modelling in understanding the generic dynamic andemergent features of that phenomenon. The model shows howcontext dependence, described here through structure of epis-temic landscape, leads to formation of context dependent ro-bust states. The sharply defined nature of these states makeslearning to appear as a progression of switches from state toanother, given appearance of conceptual change as switch fromone robust state to another.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Conceptual change; concept learning; epistemiclandscape; simulations"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/31v9d0wk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ismo","middle_name":"T.","last_name":"Koponen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Helsinki","department":""},{"first_name":"Tommi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kokkonen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Helsinki","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27236/galley/16872/download/"}]}