EMBeRS

Research: Project
Full Title

Understanding, teaching, and employing model-based reasoning (MBR) in socio-environmental synthesis (EMBeRS)

Abstract

The EMBeRS project will tackle the challenge of understanding, teaching, and employing learning processes that enable diverse disciplinary perspectives to be integrated into more comprehensive conceptual frameworks. Our hypothesis is that the process of constructing integrated conceptual frameworks generates the “embers” of the mind that enable more effective conduct of interdisciplinary and actionable socio-environmental science. In this project, we will focus on material artifacts and model-based reasoning (MBR), well known in learning and cognitive sciences as fundamental mechanisms for generating new conceptual understanding. The results of this synthesis activity will generate new conceptual models of socio-environmental synthesis that will be used to develop pedagogical designs in classes taught by EMBeRS participants and disseminated broadly.

Project Type
Team Synthesis Project
Date
2013
Principal Investigators
Deana Pennington, University of Texas at El Paso
Antje Danielson, MIT Energy Institute
Participants
Anindito Aditomo, University of Surabaya
David Gosselin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Geoffrey Habron, Warren Wilson College
Chris Meissner, Iowa State University
Rod Parnell, Northern Arizona University
James Proctor, Lewis & Clark College
John Olgin, University of Texas at El Paso
Julia Svoboda Gouvea, Tufts University
Kate Thompson, University of Sydney
Shirley Vincent, NCSE
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