Conceptual Profiles A Theory of Teaching and Learning Scientific Concepts
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. De...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014 |
| Series: | Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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