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  • 6 - A History of Conceptual Change Research

  • from Part I - Foundations
  • Edited by R. Keith Sawyer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences
    Published online:
    14 March 2022
    Print publication:
    07 April 2022, pp 114-133

  • Summary

    Effective learning requires conceptual change: learning new and correct knowledge while also overcoming and transforming previously held incorrect knowledge. These incorrect conceptions prevent deep learning unless they are transformed into correct ones. These early, common-sense, and incorrect beliefs are sometimes called naïve theories. Most of the research in this chapter concerns physics, biology, and math learning. Jean Piaget’s theoretical work provides an important foundation for conceptual change research, as well as theories in the history and philosophy of science about how scientific disciplines change over time. The author presents a knowledge in pieces theory of how conceptual change occurs during learning.