The Theory of Conceptual Fields

Autor/in	Vergnaud, Gerard
Titel	The Theory of Conceptual Fields
Quelle	In: Human Development, 52 (2009) 2, S.83-94 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-716X
DOI	10.1159/000202727
Schlagwörter	Individual Development; Epistemology; Mathematical Concepts; Concept Formation; Cognitive Development; Learning Theories; Mathematics Instruction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individuelle Entwicklung; Erkenntnistheorie; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Kognitive Entwicklung; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht
Abstract	The theory of conceptual fields is a developmental theory. It has two aims: (1) to describe and analyse the progressive complexity, on a long- and medium-term basis, of the mathematical competences that students develop inside and outside school, and (2) to establish better connections between the operational form of knowledge, which consists in action in the physical and social world, and the predicative form of knowledge, which consists in the linguistic and symbolic expressions of this knowledge. As it deals with the progressive complexity of knowledge, the conceptual field framework is also useful to help teachers organize didactic situations and interventions, depending on both the epistemology of mathematics and a better understanding of the conceptualizing process of students. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10