1 Introduction |
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2 Conceptual Change and Learning About Forces |
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2.1 The Challenge of Learning About Forces and Motion |
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2.2 Conceptual Change: A Brief Historical Perspective |
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2.2.1 The Influence of Piaget |
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2.2.2 The 'Classical' Model of Conceptual Change |
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2.2.3 Developing Knowledge and Understanding of Learners' Conceptions in Science |
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2.2.4 Some Theoretical Models of Conceptual Change |
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2.2.5 Considering the Individual's World |
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2.3 Conceptual Change in Action: Primary Teachers Learning About Forces |
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2.3.1 Forces Within the Context of Floating and Sinking |
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2.3.2 The Socio-Cultural Environment and the Role of the Tutor |
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2.3.3 Learning in Action: Floating and Sinking |
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2.3.5 Constructing and Reviewing Hypotheses |
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2.3.6 Developing a Forces View of Floating and Sinking |
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2.3.7 Generalising Weight for Size |
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2.3.8 Understanding Forces in Different Contexts Towards Context Independent Learning |
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2.4 Some Conclusions and Implications |
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2.4.1 Reflections on the Development a Qualitative Understanding of Force and Motion |
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2.4.2 Developing Pedagogical Insight Through Employing a Metacognitive Approach to Learning |
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2.4.3 Some Implications for Teacher Education |
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3 The Role of Analogies in Learning |
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3.1 Learning About Simple Circuits |
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3.2 Applying Analogies to Simple Circuits |
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3.2.2 Synopsis of Research Findings |
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3.2.3 Tracking Learning Within the Groups |
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3.3 Implications for Pedagogy |
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3.3.1 The Problem of Analogies in Developing a Sequential View of Simple Circuits |
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3.4 Explanation and Meaning |
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3.4.1 The Appropriation of Hermeneutics |
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3.4.2 Exemplification of Language and Meaning |
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3.4.3 Alternative Perspectives on Knowledge Acquisition |
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3.4.4 Partitioning and Sequencing |
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3.4.5 The Presentation of Science Knowledge in Science Education |
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3.5 Practical Implications for Pedagogy: Learning |
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3.6 Practical Implications for Pedagogy: Teaching |
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3.7 Teacher Subject and Pedagogic Knowledge |
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4 Cognitive Conflict and the Formation of Shadows |
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4.1 Promoting Conceptual Change Through Cognitive Conflict |
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4.1.1 The Role of Cognitive Conflict in Learning Science |
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4.1.2 Some Limitations of the Cognitive Conflict Strategy |
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4.2 The Challenge Presented by the Conceptual Domain of Light |
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4.3 Exploring the Impact of Cognitive Conflict in Learning About Shadows |
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4.3.1 Background to the Exemplification Study |
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4.3.2 The Cognitive Conflict Scenarios |
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4.3.3 Learner Responses to the Cognitive Conflict Scenarios |
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4.3.4 Categories of Responses to the Cognitive Conflict Scenarios (1-3) |
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4.3.5 Triggering Meaningful Cognitive Conflict |
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4.4 Resolving the Conflict |
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4.4.1 The Need to Generate Causal Explanation |
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4.4.2 Resolving the Cognitive Conflict Caused by the Cross-Shaped Shadow |
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4.5 The Emergence of Pedagogical Insight |
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4.5.1 The Learning Process |
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4.5.2 Pedagogy Relating to Light |
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4.5.3 Pedagogical Implications for Future Practice |
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4.7 Some Concluding Remarks |
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5 Language Interpretation and Meaning |
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5.1 Conceptualising How Language Works |
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5.1.1 A Brief Look at Language as a System or Structure |
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5.2 Sign and Signification |
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5.3 Signification in Science Learning |
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5.3.1 Paradigm Constraints in Reasoning |
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5.3.2 The Relational Value of the Sign |
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5.4 Interpretation and Meaning |
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5.4.1 What Counts for text? |
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5.4.2 Language and Accessing the World (Electricity) |
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5.4.3 Possibilities and Constraints |
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5.4.4 Shaping the Ontological Landscape |
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6 Metacognition and Developing Understanding of Simple Astronomical Events |
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6.1 Metacognition and Learning |
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6.1.1 What Is Meant by Metacognition? |
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6.1.2 The Relevance of Developing Metacognitive Awareness of Learning in 'leacher Education |
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6.2 The Conceptual Domain of the Earth and Beyond |
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6.2.1 The Cognitive and Pedagogical Challenge of Developing Causal Explanations of Simple Astronomical Events |
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6.2.2 Using a Metacognitive Approach to Generating Subject and Pedagogical Knowledge |
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6.3 Mapping Movement in Conceptual Understanding About Simple Astronomical Events |
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6.3.1 The DayNight Cycle |
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6.3.3 The Phases of the Moon |
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6.4 Insights Identified Through Adopting a Metacognitive Approach to Learning |
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6.4.1 The Nature of Cognitive Development Within the Subject Domain the Earth and Beyond |
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6.4.2 Using Key Features of Learning to Stimulate the Development of Subject and Pedagogical Knowledge |
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7 The Subject Matter Learning Audit and the Generation of Pedagogical Content Knowledge |
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7.1.1 Pedagogic Content Knowledge |
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7.1.2 Teacher Education and the Development of PCK |
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7.1.3 Translation and Interpretation: Knowledge into Practice |
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7.2 The Subject Matter Learning Audit |
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7.3 A SMLA Case Study (Stage 1): Learning About Forces |
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7.3.1 The Participants '1 |
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7.3.2 Analysis of Prior Learning |
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7.4 A SMLA Case Study (Stage 2): The Individual National Curriculum SMLA |
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7.4.1 Key Ideas Within the Programmes of Study |
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7.4.3 Abstract or Counterintuitive Ideas |
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7.4.4 Personal Misconceptions |
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7.4.6 Other Factors Influencing Learning |
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7.5 A SMLA Case Study (Stage 3): Scheme of Work SMLA |
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7.5.1 Group SMLA of QCA Unit 6E |
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7.5.2 Group SMLA of the QCA Unit 2E (Forces and Movement) |
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7.6 Discussion and Implications for Teacher Education |
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7.6.1 What Can the SMLA Approach Contribute to Teacher Education? |
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7.6.2 Some Implications for the Role of Teacher Education Institutions |
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References |
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Author Index |
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Subject Index |
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