Conceptual change and education

Human Development

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-54

  Vosniadou, Stella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conceptual change; Instruction induced conceptual change; Sociocultural constraints; Synthetic models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENT; TEACHER;

EID: 33846859765     PISSN: 0018716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000097684     Document Type: Article

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