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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2007.27.7.592

A Case Study of Middle School Students' Conceptual Change on the Concept of Force: Conceptual Ecological Approach  

Park, Ji-Eun (Korean Educational Development Institute)
Lee, Sun-Kyung (Seoul National University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.27, no.7, 2007 , pp. 592-608 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study explored the types of conceptual change of 'force' within middle school students' conceptual ecologies. This qualitative study was implemented with the use of classroom observations and two interviews with the participants. 11 middle school students (7 females and 4 males) joined in this study. The interviews with the participants were conducted individually before and after the 'force' unit. The collected data were all transcribed and analyzed interpretively. The results of this study consisted of two parts. First, the participants' conceptual ecologies of 'force' were categorized into 4: epistemological commitments (fixed or interactional explanatory consistency), analogy (attribute, working), metaphysical beliefs (people-oriented ontology, animism, causationism, mixed), and past experiences. Second, two representative cases including 'stable' and 'transitional' states were explained based on the interactions within their own conceptual ecologies. We can see students' conceptions with the integrated perspective in the sense that this results tried to get contextual and interactional understandings of the status of the conception and the possibilities of conceptual change. In addition, it implied that conceptual change research should have the perspective of conceptual ecology evolution in the future.
Keywords
conceptual change; conceptual ecology; the status of a conception; force; case study;
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