Antosch-Bardohn Jana
Country: Germany
Thesis topic: Better learning when doing nothing? - The impact of an incubation period on the learning process
Abstract: Empirical studies on instructional support for learning usually focus on how to facilitate learning processes to achieve better learning outcomes. There are, however, indications that sometimes after a period without intentional learning, a growth in knowledge occurs. Regarding to the approach of creative problem solving a period without intentional working on the problem has been termed incubation. This phase is followed by an insight, a moment where an idea comes to mind. The open question is whether we can find similar phenomena in learning processes as well. In addition to that I examine how incubation and insight phenomena in learning processes can be fostered and which cognitive levels support unconscious work and lead to an increase in knowledge.
Supervisors: PD Dr. Karsten Stegmann
Home discipline: Educational Psychology
Website: http://www.profil.uni-muenchen.de/tutorplus/personen/jana_antosch_bardohn/index.html