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The review below looks at the Conceptual change approach in development and learning.
The conceptual change approach in development and learning can also be applied to any of
conceptualizations of domain specifically, focusing on the description and explanation of the
changes that take place in the content and structure of knowledge with learning and
development. Thus, the processes of knowledge acquisition with development can proceed
either in the direction of enriching existing knowledge structures or towards restructuring
them. Theory-like knowledge structures allow the possibility that developmental change is
theory change and this is exactly what conceptual change is meant to be.