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ERIC Number: EJ560020
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-7685
A Cooperative Controversy Lesson Designed To Reveal Students' Conceptions of the "Nature of Science."
Hammrich, Penny L.; Blouch, Kathleen K.
American Biology Teacher, v60 n1 p50-51 Jan 1998
Recommends the use of an instructional strategy that is ideal for examining students' conceptions of the nature of science. Defines cooperative controversy as a situation in which one person's ideas, information, conclusions, theories, or opinions are incompatible with those of another. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Epistemology, Higher Education, Knowledge Representation, Learning Strategies, Philosophy
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Nature of Science