Cognitive Maps in the Process of Educational Communication

摘要

Scientific knowledge as a result of the cognitive process of a scientific community is characterized by a coherent system of scientific concepts, terms, facts, laws, and principles and the connections between them which comprise theories and their applications and interpretations in reality, and cognitive, modeling, application, and interpretation methods and procedures that the given science makes use of. Scientific knowledge systems are organized in scientific models described by words, symbols, or figures which comprise patterns. The scientific conceptual models are adapted to the purposes of education in a process of an educational communication of science called also the curriculum process. In the first phase of this process the communicative scientific conceptual knowledge system is constructed and visualized by way of cognitive maps of a content knowledge to be taught. This system is adapted to the cognitive level of knowledge recipients in the second phase of the curriculum process. The cognitive maps of en educational content and its parts are created in the third phase of the curriculum process - teaching, instruction, and learning.