Edward F. Redish and Eleanor C. Sayre
Poster presented at GIREP2009, Leicester, UK, August 2009
Abstract: The Resources Framework (RF) is a structure for creating phenomenological models of high-level thinking. It is based on a combination of core stable results selected from educational research phenomenology, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral science. As a framework (as opposed to a theory), it provides ontologies -- classes of structural elements and their behaviors -- rather than providing specific structures. These ontologies permit the creation of models that bridge existing models of knowledge and learning, such as the alternative conceptions theory and the knowledge in pieces approach, or cognitive modeling and the socio-cultural approach. Structurally, the RF is an associative network model with control structure and dynamic binding. As a phenomenological and descriptive framework, it does not (yet) create mathematical models from low-level elements. This poster outlines the RF and shows how it gives new ways of looking at traditional issues such as transfer, concepts, ontologies, and epistemology.
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