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Published on: February 19, 2018
Representation of individuals' ideational knowledge through their knowledge maps
1Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University, P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva, Israel 84105. hoz@bgu.ac.il
Abstract:
The Knowledge Map is considered an external representation of an individual's ideational (commonly called declarative or conceptual) knowledge stored in ideational (or propositional) memory. The Knowledge Map contains 4 graphic components: concepts, concept clusters, multicomponent links, and texts. The graphic components are mutually related by their inclusion and connectedness, and their analysis yields numerous visible and abstract unitary dimensions which have local, intermediate, and global values described by a 3-level framework and correspond to the elements of the ideational memory. That correspondence and the nature of these dimensions imply the Bigness of Change and Interminate Changes principles: all changes in the Knowledge Map and ideational memory are expansive, and in ideational memory they are expansive and never-ending.
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