A History of Conceptual Change Research

This chapter describes the history of research on conceptual change. Teachers and traditional methods of learning areas are problematic and permanent errors. Primary school to university physics, material science in many fields, density, Newtonian mechanics and electricity, biology, evolution, and genetic changes, such as the method of conceptual issues need to go. The first difficulty of conceptual change "change" is. Students create new knowledge in the context of old ideas. The second challenge perspective and the difference of opinion. Important conceptual change in science learning. Because the learning sciences concerned with learning difficulties. Conceptual change in learning some theoretical topics are covered by a deep and lasting. Conceptual change, developmental psychology, epistemology, history and philosophy of science is about. In this chapter also described the history of conceptual change scientists who are working on this issue, and given the views of these scholars on the subject. Even the most brilliant students in the classroom based on the false ideas of wrong assumptions can be permanent. Traditional teaching methods can not overcome this problem.

Aim of this study to understand the history of conceptual change and other researchers who work on this issue and to offer suggestions to teachers.

Questions:

1. How to identify students who should be misconceptions?

2. Conceptual change learning and teaching methods which should be used?