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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2004  > September  >
Chemistry for Everyone
Conceiving of Concept Maps To Foster Meaningful Learning: An Interview with Joseph D. Novak
Liberato Cardellini
Dipartimento di Scienze dei Materiali e della Terra, Università Politecnica della Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
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September 2004
Vol. 81 No. 9
p. 1303
Abstract
Joseph Novak, the inventor of concept maps, explains in this interview how that idea was born thirty years ago. As a student he developed a passion for education, trying to find better ways to educate people and help them "learn how to learn". Concept maps can profitably be used to represent knowledge in every field of study: they help students to construct new learning and are also useful for teachers to discover possible misconceptions in the students' own construction. Novak discusses the advantages of meaningful learning and the foundations of his theory of education based on "human constructivism" and he summarizes it in a concept map. He also explains why concept maps are a useful tool for corporations, too.
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*  Citation
 Cardellini, Liberato. J. Chem. Educ. 2004 81 1303.
*  Keywords
 CER Constructivism; CER Learning Theories; Chemical Education Research; History / Philosophy; Teaching / Learning Aids; Teaching / Learning Theory / Practice
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Last Updated:		 July 28, 2004
August 10, 2004
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