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ERIC Number: EJ273475
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983-Jan
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How "Rational" is Rationality?
West, Leo H. T.; Pines, A. Leon
Science Education, v67 n1 p37-39 Jan 1983
Argues that there is a strong nonrational component in conceptual change, analyzing aspects of the nonrational or aesthetic that are part of the conceptual change process. Shows that the results of Posner et. al. ("Science Education" 66: 211-27, 1982) support this thesis. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Change, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Epistemology, Learning, Science Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Conceptual Change; Conceptual Frameworks