Macbeth2000a

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Macbeth2000a
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Author(s) Douglas Macbeth
Title On an actual apparatus for conceptual change
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Tag(s) EMCA, Science, Education
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Year 2000
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Journal Research in Science Education
Volume 84
Number 2
Pages 228–264
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DOI 10.1002/(SICI)1098-237X(200003)84:2<228::AID-SCE6>3.0.CO;2-3
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The project of “conceptual change” has assumed a central place in science education, as both a research program and professional maxim. Conceptual change flags the transformation of students' naive conceptualizations of science into the scientific understandings of their curriculum. This article organizes a reading of the literature that brings into view a collection of design specifications for a conceptual change apparatus. Moving from the conceptual to the practical, it then pursues an analysis of one such apparatus, in the particulars of a science education demonstration program produced by the Harvard–Smithsonian Private Universe Project. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Sci Ed84:228–264; 2000.

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