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Conceptual Profiles: A Theory of Teaching and Learning Scientific Concepts

By Eduardo F. Mortimer (Editor), Charbel N. El-Hani (Editor)
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By Eduardo F. Mortimer (Editor), Charbel N. El-Hani (Editor)
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The language of science has many words and phrases whose meaning either changes in differing contexts or alters to reflect developments in a given discipline. This book presents the authors’ theories on using ‘conceptual profiles’ to make the teaching of context-dependent meanings more effective. Developed over two decades, their theory begins with a recognition of the coexistence in the students’ discourse of those alternative meanings, even in the case of scientific concepts such as molec...

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