Reconsidering conceptual change : issues in theory and practice /

This book is an important account of the state of the art of both theoretical and practical issues in the present-day research on conceptual change. It is divided into four parts and each of them is commented on by an invited discussant. The two first parts deal with theoretical perspectives on conc...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Limón, Margarita, Mason, Lucia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2002]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The processes and challenges of conceptual change.
  • 2. Why conceptual ecologyz is a good idea
  • 3. On the nature of naïve physics
  • 4. Map reading versus mind reading: revisiting children's understanding of the shape of the earth
  • 5. Understanding conceptual change
  • 6. The role of the motivational beliefs in conceptual change
  • 7. Situating the question of conceptual change
  • 8. Participative learniing and conceptual change
  • 9. Cognitive variability in the development of tthe concept of family
  • 10. Motivational, social, and contextual aspects of conceptual change
  • 11. The role of students' epistemological knowledge in the process of conceptual change in science
  • 12. Intuitive rules: the case of more A ... more Z
  • 13. Conceptual change in mathematics
  • 14. Conceptual change in history
  • 15. Content and conceptual change: a commentary
  • 16. Developing epistemological thinking to foster conceptual change in different domains
  • 17. Science learning through text
  • 18. Computer-based interactions for conceptual change in science
  • 19. Knowledge assessment and conceptual understanding
  • 20. Change as a process and a disposition.