But there are interesting differences between the Mohist conception of such knowledge and conceptions prevalent in the Western tradition.
Experts advocate teaching science as a way of knowing through instructional strategies that actively engage students in their learning, uncover prior knowledge and conceptions, promote inquiry, and address both content and the nature of science.
The flexible and ubiquitous nature of informal learning provides a great opportunity to share current scientific knowledge and our understanding of the tree of life with the public yet brings its own challenges, as these experiences occur within the context of visitors' prior knowledge and conceptions.
The FCI enables a fine-grained analysis of students' conceptual knowledge and naïve conceptions and thus unfolds its full potential when teachers or researchers have the resources and the intention to make use of this opportunity.
With its 47 items, the FMCE is also not intended to provide an efficient, quick overview of students' understanding but instead in-depth information about students' conceptual knowledge and naïve conceptions in dynamics.
Overall, evolutionary mechanisms such as natural selection may provide a useful context for the study of problem representation and problem performance in novices and experts, given its central importance to the discipline of biology and the extensive research base on student background knowledge and alternative conceptions.
Teaching needs to be based on students' knowledge, attitudes, and conceptions of the environmental protection issues (Schreiner and Sjøberg 2004).
Many educators use pretests as a method of assessing students' prior knowledge and diagnosing alternative conceptions in a particular content area (Berry [2008]).
The shocked comments of the eight women using contraception suggest a combination of factors: a lack of knowledge about conception and the risks of pregnancy whilst using contraception, but more importantly a lack of belief in becoming pregnant.
In 1973 he published The Central Questions of Philosophy, in which he returned to familiar topics in the theory of knowledge and presented a commonsense conception of the world as a theory founded on the basis of sense-data.
