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Unintended learning in primary school practical science lessons from Polanyiâs perspective of intellectual passion
This study explored, from the perspective of intellectual passion developed by
Michael Polanyi, the unintended learning that occurred in primary practical science lessons.
We use the term âunintendedâ learning to distinguish it from âintendedâ learning that
appears in teachersâ learning objectives. Data were collected using video and audio
recordings of a sample of twenty-four whole class practical science lessons, taught by five
teachers, in Korean primary schools with 10- to 12-year-old students. In addition, video
and audio recordings were made for each small group of students working together in order
to capture their activities and intra-group discourse. Pre-lesson interviews with the teachers
were undertaken and audio-recorded to ascertain their intended learning objectives.
Selected key vignettes, including unintended learning, were analysed from the perspective
of intellectual passion developed by Polanyi. What we found in this study is that unintended
learning could occur when students got interested in something in the first place and
could maintain their interest. In addition, students could get conceptual knowledge when
they tried to connect their experience to their related prior knowledge. It was also found
that the processes of intended learning and of unintended learning were different. Intended
learning was characterized by having been planned by the teacher who then sought to
generate studentsâ interest in it. In contrast, unintended learning originated from studentsâ
spontaneous interest and curiosity as a result of unplanned opportunities. Whilst teachersâ
persuasive passion comes first in the process of intended learning, studentsâ heuristic
passion comes first in the process of unintended learning. Based on these findings, we argue that teachers need to be more aware that unintended learning, on the part of individual
students, can occur during their lesson and to be able to better use this opportunity
so that this unintended learning can be shared by the whole class. Furthermore, we argue
that teachersâ deliberate action and a more interactive classroom culture are necessary in
order to allow students to develop, in addition to heuristic passion, persuasive passion
towards their unintended learning
A new family of diprotodontian marsupials from the latest Oligocene of Australia and the evolution of wombats, koalas, and their relatives (Vombatiformes)
We describe the partial cranium and skeleton of a new diprotodontian marsupial from the late Oligocene (~26â25âMa) Namba Formation of South Australia. This is one of the oldest Australian marsupial fossils known from an associated skeleton and it reveals previously unsuspected morphological diversity within Vombatiformes, the clade that includes wombats (Vombatidae), koalas (Phascolarctidae) and several extinct families. Several aspects of the skull and teeth of the new taxon, which we refer to a new family, are intermediate between members of the fossil family Wynyardiidae and wombats. Its postcranial skeleton exhibits features associated with scratch-digging, but it is unlikely to have been a true burrower. Body mass estimates based on postcranial dimensions range between 143 and 171âkg, suggesting that it was ~5 times larger than living wombats. Phylogenetic analysis based on 79 craniodental and 20 postcranial characters places the new taxon as sister to vombatids, with which it forms the superfamily Vombatoidea as defined here. It suggests that the highly derived vombatids evolved from wynyardiid-like ancestors, and that scratch-digging adaptations evolved in vombatoids prior to the appearance of the ever-growing (hypselodont) molars that are a characteristic feature of all post-Miocene vombatids. Ancestral state reconstructions on our preferred phylogeny suggest that bunolophodont molars are plesiomorphic for vombatiforms, with full lophodonty (characteristic of diprotodontoids) evolving from a selenodont morphology that was retained by phascolarctids and ilariids, and wynyardiids and vombatoids retaining an intermediate selenolophodont condition. There appear to have been at least six independent acquisitions of very large (>100âkg) body size within Vombatiformes, several having already occurred by the late Oligocene
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The effect of an external transmitter on the drag coefficient of a birdâs body, and hence on migration range, and energy reserves after migration
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Impact of resolving the diurnal cycle in an ocean-atmosphere GCM. Part 1: A diurnally forced OGCM
The diurnal cycle is a fundamental time scale in the climate system, at which the upper ocean and atmosphere are routinely observed to vary. Current climate models, however, are not configured to resolve the diurnal cycle in the upper ocean or the interaction of the ocean and atmosphere on these time scales. This study examines the diurnal cycle of the tropical upper ocean and its climate impacts. In the present paper, the first of two, a high vertical resolution ocean general circulation model (OGCM), with modified physics, is developed which is able to resolve the diurnal cycle of sea surface temperature (SST) and current variability in the upper ocean. It is then validated against a satellite derived parameterization of diurnal SST variability and in-situ current observations. The model is then used to assess rectification of the intraseasonal SST response to the MaddenâJulian oscillation (MJO) by the diurnal cycle of SST. Across the equatorial Indo-Pacific it is found that the diurnal cycle increases the intraseasonal SST response to the MJO by around 20%. In the Pacific, the diurnal cycle also modifies the exchange of momentum between equatorially divergent Ekman currents and the meridionally convergent geostrophic currents beneath, resulting in a 10% increase in the strength of the Ekman cells and equatorial upwelling. How the thermodynamic and dynamical impacts of the diurnal cycle effect the mean state, and variability, of the climate system cannot be fully investigated in the constrained design of ocean-only experiments presented here. The second part of this study, published separately, addresses the climate impacts of the diurnal cycle in the coupled system by coupling the OGCM developed here to an atmosphere general circulation model
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The effect of Arabian Sea optical properties on SST biases and the South Asian summer monsoon in a coupled GCM
This study examines the effect of seasonally varying chlorophyll on the climate of the Arabian Sea and South Asian monsoon. The effect of such seasonality on the radiative properties of the upper ocean is often a missing process in coupled general circulation models and its large amplitude in the region makes it a pertinent choice for study to determine any impact on systematic biases in the mean and seasonality of the Arabian Sea. In this study we examine the effects of incorporating a seasonal cycle in chlorophyll due to phytoplankton blooms in the UK Met Office coupled atmosphere-ocean GCM HadCM3. This is achieved by performing experiments in which the optical properties of water in the Arabian Sea - a key signal of the semi-annual cycle of phytoplankton blooms in the region - are calculated from a chlorophyll climatology derived from Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS) data. The SeaWiFS chlorophyll is prescribed in annual mean and seasonally-varying experiments. In response to the chlorophyll bloom in late spring, biases in mixed layer depth are reduced by up to 50% and the surface is warmed, leading to increases in monsoon rainfall during the onset period. However when the monsoons are fully established in boreal winter and summer and there are strong surface winds and a deep mixed layer, biases in the mixed layer depth are reduced but the surface undergoes cooling. The seasonality of the response of SST to chlorophyll is found to depend on the relative depth of the mixed layer to that of the anomalous penetration depth of solar fluxes. Thus the inclusion of the effects of chlorophyll on radiative properties of the upper ocean acts to reduce biases in mixed layer depth and increase seasonality in SST