Perspectives on Conceptual Change: Multiple Ways to Understand Knowing and Learning in a Complex World

, by Guzzetti, Barbara; Hynd, Cynthia R.; Guzzetti, Barbara J.

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ISBN: 9780805823219 | 0805823212
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/1/1998

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Four vignettes about conceptual change are analyzed from a range of perspectives and broaden readers' knowledge of how learning occurs.

Foreword

(2)

Marjorie Youmans Lipson

Preface

PART I: THE VIGNETTES

(36)

Chapter 1 Case Studies in Conceptual Change: Contextual Influences on Learning With Text

(4)

Barbara Guzzetti

Chapter 2 Self-Confidence and the Process of Conceptual Change

(10)

Katherine Maria

Chapter 3 Social Interactions and Children's Changing Understanding of Electric Circuits

(10)

Elizabeth B. Moje

Daniel P. Shepardson

Chapter 4 Conceptual Change in a High School Physics Class

(12)

Cynthia Hynd

PART II: PERSPECTIVES ON CONCEPTUAL CHANGE

(160)

Chapter 5 Case Studies in Conceptual Change: A Social Psychological Perspective

(16)

Gale M. Sinatra

Janice A. Dole

Chapter 6 Positioning Conceptual Change Within a Model of Domain Literacy

(22)

Patricia A. Alexander

Chapter 7 A Critique of Social Constructivist Explanations of Knowledge Change

(40)

Clark A. Chinn

Chapter 8 Conceptual Change From the Perspective of Multicultural Education

117

(16)

Kathryn H. Au

Chapter 9 A Feminist Commentary on Four Science Education Vignettes

133

(12)

Patricia Anders

Michelle Commeyras

Chapter 10 The Social Nature of Knowing: Toward a Sociocultural Perspective on Conceptual Change and Knowledge Construction

145

(38)

Gregory J. Kelly

Judith Green

Chapter 11 A Critical Postmodernist Perspective on the Vignettes of Conceptual Change

183

(16)

Jamie Myers

Donna Alvermann

PART III: A RESPONSE BY THE VIGNETTE AUTHORS

199

(46)

Chapter 12 Marcey and Oz: Can Conceptual Change Occur Through Gendered Interactions?

199

(10)

Barbara Guzzetti

Chapter 13 My Analysis of the Jennifer Vignette

209

(16)

Katherine Maria

Chapter 14 Social Interactions and Children's Changing Understanding of Electric Circuits: Exploring Unequal Power Relations in "Peer"-Learning Groups

225

(10)

Elizabeth B. Moje

Daniel P. Shepardson

Chapter 15 Observing Learning From Different Perspectives: What Does It Mean for Barry and His Understanding of Gravity?

235

(10)

Cynthia Hynd

Author Index

245

(6)

Subject Index

251

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Perspectives on Conceptual Change: Multiple Ways to Understand Knowing and Learning in a Complex World

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