Conceptual change, how conceptual understanding is transformed, has been investigated extensively since the 1970s. The field has now grown into a multifaceted,

Perspectives on Conceptual Change presents case study excerpts illustrating the influence on and processes of students' conceptual change, and analyses of these

Brings together the research on conceptual change from perspectives in developmental, cognitive and motivational psychology, instructional psychology and scienc

This volume explores questions about conceptual change from both scientific and philosophical viewpoints by analyzing the recent history of evolutionary develop

This book is an important account of the state of the art of both theoretical and practical issues in the present-day research on conceptual change. Unique in i