Course Overview
This seminar addresses conceptual change as a central problem of learning and instruction. Building on philosophical and cognitive psychological foundations, key theories of conceptual change are introduced and applied to examples of persistent misconceptions. Over the course of the seminar, students work on a project focused on a self-chosen misconception to compare different theories and reflect on the goals of instruction.
Learning Goals
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
·explain what is meant by knowledge
and conceptual change from philosophical and cognitive perspectives
·describe how knowledge is
represented in the mind
·compare key theories of conceptual
change and their underlying assumptions
·analyze why some conceptions
persist despite instruction
·apply theories of conceptual change
to a specific misconception
- Docente: Zoya Kozlova