Conceptual change

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Historical Material in Macro-Micro Thinking Conceptual Change in Chemistry Education and the History of Chemistry... 

These historical implications lead straight back to the theories of conceptual change. Especially the well-known theory by Posner et al. (1982) is much inspired by epistemological considerations. Posner et al. themselves characterise their theory of conceptual change as... 

As a second source, Piaget s theory of accommodation has to be mentioned, which greatly influenced the meaning of the term conceptual change . How does conceptual change take place And what are the similarities to the Kuhnian epistemology We will again quote from the Posner et al. (1982) paper (see also Table 10.1) ... 

Table 10.1 Similarities between paradigm change in the history of science and in conceptual change...

In the next parts of this chapter, we explore similarities between students conceptual change and paradigm change in the history of science and draw some initial conclusions about how to use these similarities in classrooms. 

Abad, 2006 Craft Miller, 2007). Nevertheless, there is a great lack of tested and evaluated material and teaching experience, especially concerning conceptual change and the debates about the nature of science (NOS) in science education where little attention had been paid to the development and evaluation of sophisticated teaching... 

Through this chapter we would like to express our appreciation of all these educational concepts. Besides (not in contrast) the conceptions mentioned above, our intention is to initialise a process of reflection and maybe of conceptual change for the learners. Learning about the history of science into more detail can be a desired by-product , but it is not the main focus of the approach described above. Therefore, it is our aim to promote learning about basic processes in chemical enquiry, whereas the other projects mainly focused on learning about single topic or phase in the history of chemistry. 

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Posner, G., Strike, K., Hewson, P, Gertzog, W. (1982) Accommodation of a scientific conception Towards a theory of conceptual change. Science Education, 66(2), 211-227. 

Monaghan Slotta (2001) notice that despite the amount of literature on the understanding of students preconceptions as well as on the pedagogy for assisting students conceptual change, the majority of middle school and high school science... 

Chiu, M. H., Chung, S. L. (2007). Investigating correctness, consistency, and completeness of students mental models and paths of conceptual change in learning the nature ofgas particles via multiple modeling activities. Paper presented at the ESERA, Molmo, Sweden, August 21-25, 2007. 

Vosniadou, S. (1994). Capturing and modeling the process of conceptual change. In S. Vosniadou (Guest Ed.), Special Issue on Conceptual Change, Learning and Instruction, 4, 45-69. 

Vosniadou, S., Brewer, W. F. (1992). Mental models of the earth A study of conceptual change in childhood. Cognitive Psychology, 24(A), 535-585. 

Sanger, M. J., Greenbowe, T. J. (2000). Addressing student misconceptions concerning electron flow in aqueous solutions with instruction including computer animations and conceptual change strategies. International Journal of Science Education, 22(5), 521-537. 

Scheffel, L., Brockmeier, W., Parchmann, I. (2008). Historical material in micro-macro thinking Conceptual change in chemistry education and in the history of chemistry. In J. K. Gilbert D. F. Treagust (Eds.), Multiple representations in chemical education. Dordrecht Springer. 

These conceptual changes in both solution formats and performance... 

An extension of the WATS model to include wet-weather conditions requires a conceptual change by strengthening the physical processes in terms of solids deposition, erosion and transport. Quality aspects still play a role, however, in a different way, because the transformations that proceed during... 

Complex conceptual changes such as dissolution of the boundary between self and non-self are generally associated with chemicals like psilocybin which stimulate 5-HT2 receptors. 

The advent of somatic treatments and more particularly the advent of effective psychopharmacology gave an impetus to a conceptual change in the approach to psychiatric illness, focusing on a more medical model. This resulted from the discovery of improved and more efficacious treatments. These gave more credibility to the approach and served as instrumentation for further progress. 

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