@inproceedings{42527f18089a42149e7985e521b2db40,
title = "Work in progress: Do students need to learn to speak 'Engineering-ese?' conceptual change as language acquisition in engineering",
abstract = "Conceptual change is often approached with a concrete epistemology in which students must replace their misconceptions with correct conceptions. Drawing upon the literature and our research, we propose that we need a new, discursive epistemology that describes conceptual change as language acquisition.",
keywords = "conceptual change, discourse, engineering education, epistemology, language, philosophy",
author = "Geoffrey Herman and Ruth Streveler and Devlin Montfort and Shane Brown",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1109/FIE.2012.6462325",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781467313513",
series = "Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE",
booktitle = "2012 Frontiers in Education Conference",
note = "42nd Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2012 ; Conference date: 03-10-2012 Through 06-10-2012",
}