Federico Corni
Biographic Data
| ID | 4349808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Federico Corni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Federico |
| FAMILY NAME | Corni |
| SIGNATURE | CORNI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1226-1585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Storytelling in STEM Disciplines
The collected papers in this Special Issue make significant contributions to educational research by demonstrating the multifaceted benefits of integrating storytelling and narrative techniques into teaching practices across various disciplines [...]
Primary Physical Science Education
This open access book integrates studies of direct encounters with Primary Forces of Nature with imaginative narrative forms of communication
Teaching and Investigating on Modelling through Analogy in Primary School
Physics deals with complex systems by reducing them to relationships between a limited number of relevant quantities and general principles. Since we live in a reality characterised by an increasing complexity in all fields, an indispensable challenge arises for education to turn basic science instruction into a key stage of education per se. Is it possible to introduce some aspects of the physics approach as early as the first school years? Whic…
Young Children’s Ideas about Heat Transfer Phenomena
In this article, we present kindergarten children’s ideas about thermal phenomena before any educational intervention took place. In order to capture and account for the heterogeneity of the kindergarten group in this study, first teachers observed children’s exploration behavior, task orientation, science interest, and language comprehension in everyday kindergarten life using a structured observation form. Then, 24 children aged between 3.8 and…
Training Prospective Primary and Kindergarten Teachers on Electric Circuits Using Conceptual Metaphors
The awareness and use of conceptual metaphors available in ordinary language should be a relevant part of teaching strategies, yet it is still rather neglected in teacher education. With a specific activity, we integrated a class of prospective kindergarten and primary school teachers on electric circuits with a reflection on the cognitive and linguistic aspects of metaphor. To understand how effective this integration proved to be, both in terms…
Embodied Simulations of Forces of Nature and the Role of Energy in Physical Systems
We experience (perceive, act upon and react to, and conceptualize) dynamical processes in nature as agentive. Expressed differently, we experience events as resulting from activities and interactions of Forces of Nature (such as wind, light, heat, fluids, electricity, substances, and motion) that are conceived of as powerful agents acting and interacting in physical environments. An example would be sunlight creating heat in the Earth’s surface l…
Primary Physical Science for Student Teachers at Kindergarten and Primary School Levels
This is the second of two papers on a novel physical science course for student teachers that develops and uses an imaginative approach to Primary Physical Science Education. General philosophical, cognitive, developmental, and scientific issues have been presented in the first paper; here, we briefly recapitulate the most important aspects. In the main part of the current paper, we present in some detail concrete elements of the implementation o…
Primary Physical Science for Student Teachers at Kindergarten and Primary School Levels
This is a theoretical paper in which we describe the motivation for and the design of a novel primary physics course for student teachers at kindergarten and primary school levels that uses cognitive tools such as metaphor, analogy, and narrative. The course has been taught in the master’s program in teacher education at three Universities over the last 5 years. It is based upon a model of the experience of forces of nature that draws upon four e…
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Primary Physical Science for Student Teachers at Kindergarten and Primary School Levels
This is a theoretical paper in which we describe the motivation for and the design of a novel primary physics course for student teachers at kindergarten and primary school levels that uses cognitive tools such as metaphor, analogy, and narrative. The course has been taught in the master’s program in teacher education at three Universities over the last 5 years. It is based upon a model of the experience of forces of nature that draws upon four e…
Embodied Simulations of Forces of Nature and the Role of Energy in Physical Systems
We experience (perceive, act upon and react to, and conceptualize) dynamical processes in nature as agentive. Expressed differently, we experience events as resulting from activities and interactions of Forces of Nature (such as wind, light, heat, fluids, electricity, substances, and motion) that are conceived of as powerful agents acting and interacting in physical environments. An example would be sunlight creating heat in the Earth’s surface l…
Primary Physical Science for Student Teachers at Kindergarten and Primary School Levels
This is the second of two papers on a novel physical science course for student teachers that develops and uses an imaginative approach to Primary Physical Science Education. General philosophical, cognitive, developmental, and scientific issues have been presented in the first paper; here, we briefly recapitulate the most important aspects. In the main part of the current paper, we present in some detail concrete elements of the implementation o…
Young Children’s Ideas about Heat Transfer Phenomena
In this article, we present kindergarten children’s ideas about thermal phenomena before any educational intervention took place. In order to capture and account for the heterogeneity of the kindergarten group in this study, first teachers observed children’s exploration behavior, task orientation, science interest, and language comprehension in everyday kindergarten life using a structured observation form. Then, 24 children aged between 3.8 and…
Training Prospective Primary and Kindergarten Teachers on Electric Circuits Using Conceptual Metaphors
The awareness and use of conceptual metaphors available in ordinary language should be a relevant part of teaching strategies, yet it is still rather neglected in teacher education. With a specific activity, we integrated a class of prospective kindergarten and primary school teachers on electric circuits with a reflection on the cognitive and linguistic aspects of metaphor. To understand how effective this integration proved to be, both in terms…
Teaching and Investigating on Modelling through Analogy in Primary School
Physics deals with complex systems by reducing them to relationships between a limited number of relevant quantities and general principles. Since we live in a reality characterised by an increasing complexity in all fields, an indispensable challenge arises for education to turn basic science instruction into a key stage of education per se. Is it possible to introduce some aspects of the physics approach as early as the first school years? Whic…
Storytelling in STEM Disciplines
The collected papers in this Special Issue make significant contributions to educational research by demonstrating the multifaceted benefits of integrating storytelling and narrative techniques into teaching practices across various disciplines [...]
Primary Physical Science Education
This open access book integrates studies of direct encounters with Primary Forces of Nature with imaginative narrative forms of communication
Psychology (7 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Science Education and Pedagogy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)