Alternative Frameworks, Conceptual Conflict and Accommodation: Toward a Principled Teaching Strategy.

Nussbaum, Joseph; Novick, Shimshon

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Alternative Frameworks, Conceptual Conflict and Accommodation: Toward a Principled Teaching Strategy.

Nussbaum, Joseph; Novick, Shimshon

Instructional Science, v11 n3 p183-200 Dec 1982

Presents an instructional strategy based on the thesis that science concept learning involves cognitive accommodation of an initially held framework. The three stages of the strategy--exposing alternative frameworks, creating conceptual conflict, and encouraging cognitive accommodation--are illustrated in two lessons on the particle model of gases. References are provided. (EAO)

Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Models, Schemata (Cognition), Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Teaching Methods

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Israel; United States

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