Université de Fribourg

An Imagination Effect in Learning From Scientific Text

Leopold, Claudia ; Mayer, Richard E.

In: Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015, vol. 107, no. 1, p. 47-63

Asking students to imagine the spatial arrangement of the elements in a scientific text constitutes a learning strategy intended to foster deep processing of the instructional material. Two experiments investigated the effects of mental imagery prompts on learning from scientific text. Students read a computer-based text on the human respiratory system (control group), read while being...

Université de Fribourg

The Power of Imagination and Perspective in Learning From Science Text

Leopold, Claudia ; Mayer, Richard E. ; Dutke, Stephan

In: Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019, vol. 111, no. 5, p. 793-808

In 2 experiments, college students read a 4-paragraph text on how the human circulatory system works and were instructed to form a mental image of the events described in each paragraph from the perspective of their own body (first-person perspective group) or from the perspective of a fictitious person facing them (third-person perspective group), or were given no imagination instructions...

Haute Ecole pédagogique Fribourg

Créativité et apprentissage : quelles mises en oeuvre chez les jeunes enseignants fribourgeois ?

Bovard, Margot ; Salles, Angélique ; Schumacher, Jérôme (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole pédagogique Fribourg, 2016.

Notre travail de diplôme vise à mettre en avant la mise en oeuvre de la créativité chez les jeunes enseignants du canton de Fribourg. Par le biais de notre démarche qualitative, nous cherchons à faire un état des lieux de la concrétisation de la créativité dans les apprentissages. Notre travail prend ses racines au carrefour de cette double injonction contradictoire omniprésente du...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

The Role of Moral Imagination in Patients' Decision-Making

Rommetveit, Kjetil ; Scully, Jackie Leach ; Porz, Rouven

In: Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2013, vol. 38, no. 2, p. 160-172

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Hume on the Imagination

Dorsch, Fabian

In: The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination

This chapter overviews Hume’s thoughts on the nature and the role of imagining, with an almost exclusive focus on the first book of his Treatise of Human Nature. Over the course of this text, Hume draws and discusses three important distinctions among our conscious mental episodes (or what he calls ‘perceptions’): (i) between impressions (including perceptual experiences) and ideas...

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Transparency and imagining seeing

Dorsch, Fabian

In: Philosophical Explorations, 2010, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 173-200

In his paper, The Transparency of Experience, M.G.F. Martin has put forward a wellknown – though not always equally well understood – argument for the disjunctivist, and against the intentional, approach to perceptual experiences. In this article, I intend to do four things: (i) to present the details of Martin’s complex argument; (ii) to defend its soundness against orthodox...