Biology Department, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA 92106, USA.
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2013 Fall;12(3):352-6. doi: 10.1187/cbe.13-01-0014.
At the close of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research conference in July 2012, one of the organizers made the comment: "Misconceptions are so yesterday." Within the community of learning sciences, misconceptions are yesterday's news, because the term has been aligned with eradication and/or replacement of conceptions, and our knowledge about how people learn has progressed past this idea. This essay provides an overview of the discussion within the learning sciences community surrounding the term "misconceptions" and how the education community's thinking has evolved with respect to students' conceptions. Using examples of students' incorrect ideas about evolution and ecology, we show that students' naïve ideas can provide the resources from which to build scientific understanding. We conclude by advocating that biology education researchers use one or more appropriate alternatives in place of the term misconception whenever possible.
在 2012 年 7 月生物学教育研究学会会议结束时,一位组织者评论道:“误解已经是过去式了。”在学习科学领域,误解已经是过去的新闻,因为这个术语已经与消除和/或替换观念联系在一起,而且我们关于人们如何学习的知识已经超越了这个概念。本文概述了学习科学领域围绕“误解”一词的讨论,以及教育界对学生观念的思考是如何发展的。我们使用了一些关于学生在进化和生态学方面错误观念的例子,展示了学生天真的想法可以为建立科学理解提供资源。最后,我们主张生物学教育研究人员在可能的情况下,用一个或多个适当的替代术语来代替“误解”一词。