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<language>eng</language>
<publisher>Science and Education Publishing</publisher>
<journalTitle>American Journal of Educational Research</journalTitle>
<eissn>2327-6150</eissn>
<publicationDate>2016-08-09</publicationDate>
<volume>4</volume>
<issue>12</issue>
<startPage>914</startPage>
<endPage>916</endPage>
<doi>10.12691/education-4-12-10</doi>
<publisherRecordId>EDUCATION201641210</publisherRecordId>
<documentType>article</documentType>
<title language="eng">Concepts and Meanings in Chemistry and Mathematics Constructed by Students with Visual Impairment</title>
<authors>
<author>
<name>Paulo Jose Menegasso</name>
<email>pjmenegasso@gmail.com</email>
<affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
</author>
<author>
<name>André Luiz Santos Menezes</name>
<affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
</author>

</authors>
<affiliationsList>
<affiliationName affiliationId="1">PPG EDUCEM, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil</affiliationName>

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<abstract language="eng">Before the inclusion in Brazilian public schools, we highlight the case of the visually impaired in the process of teaching and learning, specifically how visual impairment affects the construction of concepts and meanings in Mathematics and Chemistry. We investigated a group of students with visual impairment and the construction of meanings in experimental classes and through modeling, based on the Theory of Semantic Fields.</abstract>
<fullTextUrl format="pdf">http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/4/12/10/education-4-12-10.pdf</fullTextUrl>
<keywords language="eng"><keyword>visual impairment</keyword>
<keyword>education</keyword>
<keyword>chemistry</keyword>
<keyword>mathematics</keyword>
<keyword>conceptual fields</keyword>
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