Macbeth2000a
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Macbeth2000a |
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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Abstract
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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