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ERIC Number: EJ607192
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0036-8326
On an Actual Apparatus for Conceptual Change.
Macbeth, Douglas
Science Education, v84 n2 p228-64 Mar 2000
Organizes a reading of the conceptual change literature that brings into view a collection of design specifications for a conceptual change apparatus. Analyzes one such apparatus in the particulars of a science education demonstration program produced by the Harvard-Smithsonian Private Universe Project. (Contains 114 references.) (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Demonstrations (Science), Discourse Analysis, Light, Misconceptions, Optics, Physics, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Principles, Secondary Education, Social Science Research, Sociology
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Conceptual Change Theory of Knowledge; Conversational Analysis; Ethnomethodology