Conceptual Change: A Powerful Framework for Improving Science Teaching and Learning.

Duit, Reinders; Treagust, David F.

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ERIC Number: EJ672140

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Publication Date: 2003

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Conceptual Change: A Powerful Framework for Improving Science Teaching and Learning.

Duit, Reinders; Treagust, David F.

International Journal of Science Education, v25 n6 p671-88 Jun 2003

Discusses how conceptual change has developed over the past three decades, alternative approaches for analyzing it, multiperspective views of science learning and instruction, how conceptual change can be used to examine scientific literacy, and paths to a powerful framework for improving science teaching and learning. (Contains 91 references.) (Author/SOE)

Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Perspective Taking, Science Instruction, Scientific Literacy, Theory Practice Relationship

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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