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Generating Explanations for an Emergent Process: The Movement of Sand Dunes
The movement of sand dunes in the desert is an emergent process; the overall movement of a dune is influenced both by the random interactions among individual sand particles and by the process of wind adding and subtracting sand. People often misconstrued emergent processes as deterministic processes containing central causality. I present a case study of how one person, an adult, who was not an expert in physics, articulated and refined her explanation of the movement of sand dunes. She began with centralized causality but ended with an explanation containing the cogent emergent ideas. This case study is noteworthy in exemplifying the dynamic process of generating an explanation. The interviewee went through four different explanations at three different levels (macro, micro and mid-level) and concluded with an explanation that simultaneously addressed the movement of sand dunes at all three levels.
Physics Education Research Conference 2010
Part of the PER Conference series Portland, Oregon: July 21-22, 2010 Volume 1289, Pages 77-80
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<a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=10389">Barth-Cohen, Lauren A.. "Generating Explanations for an Emergent Process: The Movement of Sand Dunes." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, July 21-22, 2010.</a>
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L. Barth-Cohen, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, 2010, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10389&DocID=1861).
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L. Barth-Cohen, Generating Explanations for an Emergent Process: The Movement of Sand Dunes, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, 2010, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10389&DocID=1861>.
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Barth-Cohen, L. (2010, July 21-22). Generating Explanations for an Emergent Process: The Movement of Sand Dunes. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon. Retrieved October 6, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10389&DocID=1861
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Barth-Cohen, Lauren A.. "Generating Explanations for an Emergent Process: The Movement of Sand Dunes." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, July 21-22, 2010. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10389&DocID=1861 (accessed 6 October 2024).
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Barth-Cohen, Lauren A.. "Generating Explanations for an Emergent Process: The Movement of Sand Dunes." Physics Education Research Conference 2010. Portland, Oregon: 2010. 77-80 Vol. 1289 of PER Conference. 6 Oct. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10389&DocID=1861>.
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Author = "Lauren A. Barth-Cohen",
Title = {Generating Explanations for an Emergent Process: The Movement of Sand Dunes},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2010},
Pages = {77-80},
Address = {Portland, Oregon},
Series = {PER Conference},
Volume = {1289},
Month = {July 21-22},
Year = {2010}
}
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