Conceptual Profile
A Theory of Teaching and Learning Scientific Concepts
(Sprache: Englisch)
The language of science has many words and phrases whose meaning either changes in differing contexts or alters to reflect developments in a given discipline. This book presents the authors' theories on using 'conceptual profiles' to make the teaching of...
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The language of science has many words and phrases whose meaning either changes in differing contexts or alters to reflect developments in a given discipline. This book presents the authors' theories on using 'conceptual profiles' to make the teaching of context-dependent meanings more effective. Developed over two decades, their theory begins with a recognition of the coexistence in the students' discourse of those alternative meanings, even in the case of scientific concepts such as molecule, where the dissonance between the classical and modern views of the same phenomenon is an accepted norm. What began as an alternative model of conceptual change has evolved to incorporate a sociocultural approach, by drawing on ideas such as situated cognition and Vygotsky's influential concept of culturally located learning. Also informed by pragmatist philosophy, the approach has grown into a well-rounded theory of teaching and learning scientific concepts. The authors have taken the opportunity in this book to develop their ideas further, anticipate and respond to criticisms-that of relativism, for example-and explain how their theory can be applied to analyze the teaching of core concepts in science such as heat and temperature, life and biological adaptation. They also report on the implementation of a research program that correlates the responsiveness of their methodology to all the main developments in the field of science education. This additional material will inform academic discussion, review, and further enhancement of their theory and research model.
The idea of a conceptual profile - that people can exhibit different ways of seeing and representing the world, which are used in different contexts - was proposed by Mortimer in the 1990s, as an alternative to counterbalance a strong tendency that theories and models of conceptual change exhibited at that time.The idea of conceptual profile is an attempt to frame the problem of generating new meanings in science teaching considering the interplay between modes of thinking and ways of speaking. The basic assumption is that different modes of thinking that characerize the heterogeneity of verbal thinking are interwoven with different ways of speaking. The idea of conceptual profile recognizes the coexistence, in the individual, of two or more meanings for the same word or concept, which are accessed in the appropriate context. This book is about a research program on how people learn scientific concepts and how these concepts can be taught in terms of dialoguing this heterogeneity.
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INTRODUCTION.- SECTION 1 The conceptual profile: theoretical, epistemological and methodological bases of a research program.- CHAPTER 1 Conceptual Profiles: Theoretical-Methodological Bases of a Research Program.- CHAPTER 2 The Epistemological Grounds of the Conceptual Profile Theory.- CHAPTER 3 Methodological grounds of the conceptual profile research program.- SECTION 2 Empirical studies for building and using conceptual profile models for chemical, physical and biological onto concepts.- CHAPTER 4 Contributions of the sociocultural domain to define a conceptual profile for molecule and molecular structure.- CHAPTER 5 Building a Profile for the Biological Concept of Life.- CHAPTER 6 Investigating the Evolution of Conceptual Profiles of Life amongst University Students of Biology and Pharmacy: The Use Statistical Tools to Analyze the Answers of Questionnaires.- CHAPTER 7 Conceptual profile of adaptation: a tool to investigate evolution learning in biology classrooms.- CHAPTER 8 A conceptual profile of entropy and spontaneity: characterizing modes of thinking and ways of speaking in the classroom.- CHAPTER 9 The Implications of Conceptual Profile in the Teaching of Science: an example from a teaching sequence in thermal physics.- SECTION 3 Recent developments in the research program.- CHAPTER 10 Conceptual Profile as a Model of a Complex World.- CHAPTER 11 Building a profile model for the concept of Death.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2014, XVII, 330 Seiten, 330 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Eduardo F. Mortimer, Charbel N. El-Hani
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 9048192455
- ISBN-13: 9789048192458
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
From the reviews:"Conceptual Profiles: A Theory of Teaching and Learning Scientific Concepts ... features a collection of chapters largely drawing from their work and that of colleagues from the collective research program. The chapters examine the state of conceptual learning in different science contexts. ... This book may appeal to a variety of audiences. The primary audience is educational researchers interested in science learning. ... the studies are thoughtful and well worth a read." (Gregory J. Kelly, International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Group IHPST Newsletter, July, 2014)
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