Perspectives on Conceptual Change: Multiple Ways to Understand Knowing and Learning in a Complex World

by Guzzetti, Barbara; Hynd, Cynthia R.; Guzzetti, Barbara J.

• ISBN13: 9780805823219
• ISBN10: 0805823212
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Four vignettes about conceptual change are analyzed from a range of perspectives and broaden readers' knowledge of how learning occurs.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix	(2)
Marjorie Youmans Lipson
Preface	xi
PART I: THE VIGNETTES	3	(36)
Chapter 1 Case Studies in Conceptual Change: Contextual Influences on Learning With Text	3	(4)
Barbara Guzzetti
Chapter 2 Self-Confidence and the Process of Conceptual Change	7	(10)
Katherine Maria
Chapter 3 Social Interactions and Children's Changing Understanding of Electric Circuits	17	(10)
Elizabeth B. Moje
Daniel P. Shepardson
Chapter 4 Conceptual Change in a High School Physics Class	27	(12)
Cynthia Hynd
PART II: PERSPECTIVES ON CONCEPTUAL CHANGE	39	(160)
Chapter 5 Case Studies in Conceptual Change: A Social Psychological Perspective	39	(16)
Gale M. Sinatra
Janice A. Dole
Chapter 6 Positioning Conceptual Change Within a Model of Domain Literacy	55	(22)
Patricia A. Alexander
Chapter 7 A Critique of Social Constructivist Explanations of Knowledge Change	77	(40)
Clark A. Chinn
Chapter 8 Conceptual Change From the Perspective of Multicultural Education	117	(16)
Kathryn H. Au
Chapter 9 A Feminist Commentary on Four Science Education Vignettes	133	(12)
Patricia Anders
Michelle Commeyras
Chapter 10 The Social Nature of Knowing: Toward a Sociocultural Perspective on Conceptual Change and Knowledge Construction	145	(38)
Gregory J. Kelly
Judith Green
Chapter 11 A Critical Postmodernist Perspective on the Vignettes of Conceptual Change	183	(16)
Jamie Myers
Donna Alvermann
PART III: A RESPONSE BY THE VIGNETTE AUTHORS	199	(46)
Chapter 12 Marcey and Oz: Can Conceptual Change Occur Through Gendered Interactions?	199	(10)
Barbara Guzzetti
Chapter 13 My Analysis of the Jennifer Vignette	209	(16)
Katherine Maria
Chapter 14 Social Interactions and Children's Changing Understanding of Electric Circuits: Exploring Unequal Power Relations in "Peer"-Learning Groups	225	(10)
Elizabeth B. Moje
Daniel P. Shepardson
Chapter 15 Observing Learning From Different Perspectives: What Does It Mean for Barry and His Understanding of Gravity?	235	(10)
Cynthia Hynd
Author Index	245	(6)
Subject Index	251