Charles, Elizabeth S.; D'Apollonia, Sylvia
(Dawson College, 2003)
within the child between their initial conception and the to-be-learnt one.
The attempt to resolve this cognitive conflict results in the processes of “assimilation” or
“accommodation”2 of the new idea. This notion of dissatisfaction is at the base...
of several early
models of conceptual change. However, some studies in the field have moved away from
theories of cognitive conflict to theories of knowledge restructuring (e.g., Chi et al., 1994;
Vosniadou, 1994...