Coordinators 

                                 
 

Michael Schneider

University of Trier, Germany

m.schneider@uni-trier.de                                                     

                           Marianne Wiser

                                    Clark University, USA
                                    mwiser@clarku.edu

 

                                                                   

                                                Jure Assistant coordinator Marjaana Penttinen
                                                                University of Turku, Finland

 

 

 

 

Mission Statement

The SIG brings together researchers from the fields of education, cognitive and developmental psychology and several others with the purpose of investigating the problem of conceptual change in development, learning, and instruction. Research on conceptual change has provided detailed descriptions and explanations of learners' difficulties in diverse areas, such as physics, mathematics, biology and history. Under the common denominator of the conceptual change approach to learning, several theoretical assumptions have served as a source of hypotheses and have guided rich and fruitful research agendas. The SIG has been exploring the possibility to synthesize constructivist and socio-cultural perspectives on learning and to investigate the effect of epistemological beliefs and ‘hot cognition' factors on conceptual change learning. The implications of research on conceptual change in the design of instruction are currently among the priorities of the SIG.

 

 

Acitivities

Date: 1-4 September 2012
Place: Trier, Germany
Call
Website: http://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=42218&L=2