TY - CHAP
T1 - Where Are We? Syntheses and Synergies in Science Education Research and Practice
AU - Sherin, Bruce
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This paper provides an introduction to broad themes in research on conceptual change. The first part of the paper is an illustrated tour of this research organized around three questions: (1) What is the nature of students’ pre-instructional knowledge of the natural world; (2) How does this knowledge change as learners develop and scientific expertise is acquired?, and (3) What is difficult about this change? In the second part, I describe impediments to progress, that is, why we have not achieved consensus on answers to the questions. Then, in the last section I discuss how we might make further progress.
AB - This paper provides an introduction to broad themes in research on conceptual change. The first part of the paper is an illustrated tour of this research organized around three questions: (1) What is the nature of students’ pre-instructional knowledge of the natural world; (2) How does this knowledge change as learners develop and scientific expertise is acquired?, and (3) What is difficult about this change? In the second part, I describe impediments to progress, that is, why we have not achieved consensus on answers to the questions. Then, in the last section I discuss how we might make further progress.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-74490-8_17
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-74490-8_17
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85135586183
T3 - Contributions from Science Education Research
SP - 211
EP - 224
BT - Contributions from Science Education Research
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
ER -