Conceptual Profiles A Theory of Teaching and Learning Scientific Concepts / edited by Eduardo F. Mortimer, Charbel N. El-Hani.

Conceptual Profiles A Theory of Teaching and Learning Scientific Concepts /

The language of science has many words and phrases whose meaning either changes in differing contexts or alters to reflect developments in a given discipline. This book presents the authors’ theories on using ‘conceptual profiles’ to make the teaching of context-dependent meanings more effective. De...

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Main Author: Mortimer, Eduardo F.
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service), Knovel (Firm)
Other Authors: El-Hani, Charbel Niño
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Series:Contemporary trends and issues in science education ; v. 42.
Subjects:
Education.
Science > Study and teaching.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION
  • SECTION 1 The conceptual profile: theoretical, epistemological and methodological bases of a research program
  • CHAPTER 1 Conceptual Profiles: Theoretical-Methodological Bases of a Research Program
  • CHAPTER 2 The Epistemological Grounds of the Conceptual Profile Theory
  • CHAPTER 3 Methodological grounds of the conceptual profile research program
  • SECTION 2 Empirical studies for building and using conceptual profile models for chemical, physical and biological onto concepts
  • CHAPTER 4 Contributions of the sociocultural domain to define a conceptual profile for molecule and molecular structure
  • CHAPTER 5 Building a Profile for the Biological Concept of Life
  • CHAPTER 6 Investigating the Evolution of Conceptual Profiles of Life amongst University Students of Biology and Pharmacy: The Use Statistical Tools to Analyze the Answers of Questionnaires
  • CHAPTER 7 Conceptual profile of adaptation: a tool to investigate evolution learning in biology classrooms
  • CHAPTER 8 A conceptual profile of entropy and spontaneity: characterizing modes of thinking and ways of speaking in the classroom
  • CHAPTER 9 The Implications of Conceptual Profile in the Teaching of Science: an example from a teaching sequence in thermal physics
  • SECTION 3 Recent developments in the research program
  • CHAPTER 10 Conceptual Profile as a Model of a Complex World
  • CHAPTER 11 Building a profile model for the concept of Death.

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