Conceptual Profiles [electronic resource] : A Theory of Teaching and Learning Scientific Concepts / edited by Eduardo F. Mortimer, Charbel N. El-Hani.

INTRODUCTION -- SECTION 1 The conceptual profile: theoretical, epistemological and methodological bases of a research program -- CHAPTER 1 Conceptual Profiles: Theoretical-Methodological Bases of a Research Program -- CHAPTER 2 The Epistemological Grounds of the Conceptual Profile Theory -- CHAPTER 3 Methodological grounds of the conceptual profile research program -- SECTION 2 Empirical studies for building and using conceptual profile models for chemical, physical and biological onto concepts -- CHAPTER 4 Contributions of the sociocultural domain to define a conceptual profile for molecule and molecular structure -- CHAPTER 5 Building a Profile for the Biological Concept of Life -- CHAPTER 6 Investigating the Evolution of Conceptual Profiles of Life amongst University Students of Biology and Pharmacy: The Use Statistical Tools to Analyze the Answers of Questionnaires -- CHAPTER 7 Conceptual profile of adaptation: a tool to investigate evolution learning in biology classrooms -- CHAPTER 8 A conceptual profile of entropy and spontaneity: characterizing modes of thinking and ways of speaking in the classroom -- CHAPTER 9 The Implications of Conceptual Profile in the Teaching of Science: an example from a teaching sequence in thermal physics -- SECTION 3 Recent developments in the research program -- CHAPTER 10 Conceptual Profile as a Model of a Complex World -- CHAPTER 11 Building a profile model for the concept of Death.