The role of conceptual conflict in conceptual change and the design of science instruction
Instructional SciencePublished 1 May 1984
Peter W. Hewson, Mariana G. Hewson
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Abstract
Reviews literature on conceptual conflict as facilitator of student learning and alternative conceptions, describes theories explaining occurrence of alternative conceptions and conflict role in conceptual change, discusses a model of learning as conceptual change and its instructional implications, and presents results of studies which apply the model to science instruction.
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