Conceptual Change and Education
The Neglected Potential of Developmental Teaching Approaches
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20293539 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Gennen (0000-0002-7905-6503, Université Libre de Bruxelles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 88-107 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-716X • E-ISSN: 1423-0054 |
| Publisher | S. Karger AG (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.1159/000530247 |
| OpenAlex | W4361222849 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Research on conceptual change (CC) has revealed that students face difficulties when learning that requires significant changes to their prior knowledge. Researchers have documented the challenges in education to promote CCs and concluded that conventional teaching does not facilitate these changes. However, while designing educational methods to address CC challenges is a central aim of CC research, it is an area of research that still requires refinement. I show that developmental teaching (DT) approaches, including El’konin-Davydov’s developmental education and Gal’perin’s method of stage-by-stage formation of mental actions and concepts, are promising for addressing CC challenges but are absent from CC research literature. I first review the CC challenges revealed in CC research, the way in which three CC research trends – framework theory, ontological theory, and knowledge-in-pieces theory – interpret them, and their educational recommendations to foster CC. Next, I present CC challenges and educational recommendations to foster CC from a DT perspective. I delineate convergences and divergences between the three CC research trends and DT research concerning both educational design and theories of CC. I conclude by suggesting articulations between DT research and CC research in general and the three CC research trends in particular
Conceptual change · Developmental psychology · Developmental stage theories · Education theory · Educational research · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept) · Higher education · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods · Psychology
Structural Updating and the Limits of Inference in Cognitive Change
Analysis of high school students' mental models of angles
Interpsychological Origin of the Educational Action of Modeling
Teacher in the situation of setting a learning task
Trial-productive Action of Younger Adolescents (on the Material of Coordination of Educational Subjects of Biology and Literature)
Developmental Teaching and Knowledge-in-Pieces
Reevaluating student-centred education
| Citations per year | 3.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |