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On an actual apparatus for conceptual change
Author(s) -
Macbeth Douglas
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
science education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.209
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1098-237X
pISSN - 0036-8326
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1098-237x(200003)84:2<228::aid-sce6>3.0.co;2-3
Subject(s) - conceptual change , reading (process) , curriculum , science education , conceptual framework , sociology , mathematics education , engineering ethics , concept learning , computer science , pedagogy , epistemology , psychology , engineering , social science , philosophy , linguistics
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 Ed 84: 228–264; 2000.