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Giacomo Zuccarini; Massimiliano Malgieri – Science & Education, 2024
Most educational literature on conceptual change concerns the process by which introductory students acquire scientific knowledge. However, with modern developments in science and technology, the social significance of learning successive theories is steadily increasing, thus opening new areas of interest to discipline-based education research,…
Descriptors: Models, Concept Formation, Theories, Educational Research
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Paulo Victor Santos Souza; Marta Máximo-Pereira; Ariane Baffa Lourenço – Science Education International, 2024
An alternative to insert history of science (HS) in teacher formation programs is the use of concept maps (CM), which may be very useful to represent the historical elaboration dimension of science concepts, laws, and principles. This paper presents the results of a study that identifies the conceptions of pre-service physics teachers about the…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Science History, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Yan Yang – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2024
Written as a letter to Galileo, an education graduate student narrates from course experiences that deepened her understandings of Galileo and natural and intellectual properties underlying his works. Having taken the Galileo-themed course with Elizabeth Cavicchi at MIT's Edgerton Center in three prior terms, on taking it a fourth time, this…
Descriptors: College Science, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes