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| Written by Aurora Lacueva. | |
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Short-term strategies for conceptual change, based in the generation of
a cognitive conflict, have proved unsuccessful in many cases. So called
alternative conceptions extended and mixed in diverse fields beyond the
sciences, tend to be organized in more or less diffuse lay
mini-theories, have components at different levels of specificity and
consciousness, and may be based in strong framework theories. Lay
theories differ from scientific ones not only in their content, but
also in the nature of their conceptualizations, in their methodology
and even in their epistemology. Although the embryos of scientific
theories can be constructed during the basic school years, the main
effort has to be directed towards the complexification of everyday
theories. That calls for a rich, warm and democratic school
environment, centered in project-learning and open to the outside
world. Aurora Lacueva. Key words: Primary education, science education, conceptual change, alternative conceptions, everyday cognition, complex thinking. |
