Engineering Students' Thinking About Technical Systems: An Ontological Categories Approach

This paper aims at identifying ontological categories as higher-order knowledge structures that underlie engineering students' thinking about technical systems. Derived from interviews, these ontological categories include, inter alia, a focus on the behavior, structure, or purpose of a technic...

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Main Authors: Sarah Isabelle Hofer, Frank Reinhold, Frieder Loch, Birgit Vogel-Heuser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Education
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2020.00066/full