Thomas S. Kuhn’s scientific contributions

... Furthermore, when a student is confronted with information or models about the world that strongly conflict with a student's prior paradigmatic interpretation of the world this new information is discarded more easily and therefore might inhibit learning. This process, associated with the psychological notion of the confirmation bias, is important in transformative learning theory as well as in paradigmatic theory, as learning is understood as a process of integration within a paradigm or as the transformation of a whole paradigm (post-normal science in Kuhnian terms) (Kuhn 1962;Jurin and Hutchinson 2005;Calleja 2014). ...

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Loonstra, T., Tassone, V. (2024). Paradigms in Climate Change Education: A Taxonomy as a Reflexive Tool for Educators. In: Leal Filho, W., Sima, M., Lange Salvia, A., Kovaleva, M., Manolas, E. (eds) University Initiatives on Climate Change Education and Research. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25960-9_86-1