Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 7, Issue 2
FOREWORD

Thinking in Science – Thinking in General?

Professor Philip ADEY

Emeritus professor of science, cognition and education
King's College London
University of London
39 Oxford Road, London SW15 2LH, UK

Email: philip.adey@kcl.ac.uk

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Contents

• Introduction
• A Model of Thinking
• The Three Central Principles
• A New Pedagogy
• Concluding Remarks
• References

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Introduction

In science we pay attention to some particular types of thinking, such as deductive and inductive logic, establishing causality through experimentation, analysis, and categorisation. There may be other types of thinking which we believe to be more typical of other fields such as literature (e.g. characterisation, sense of audience), art (e.g. form and composition, originality), or sport (e.g. whole-game strategies, anticipation) but which do not play such as large part in science. So can we represent thinking in different domains as completely independent of one another, as represented in figure 1?

Fig 1: Separate types of thinking.