concepts

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"Concepts are mental entities…, and require mental activity to be subjectively accessed" (Taber, 2019). Concepts can be understood as mental representations used in differentiating different aspects of the world, and understood tocbe focused at the nodes of conceptual networks. If concepts are connected by a network of propositions then the content of a concept may be considered as the sum of all its associations.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.