Work in progress.
From the MYP Guide, translated by me in plain English: (it’s an attempt anyway)
A concept is a ”big idea”. Concepts are like categories which students can use to frame their ideas about personal, local and global issues.
Concepts can help students to generalise, but also to make connections and to think more deeply about facts and topics. Concepts can help develop principles, generalizations and theories.
Here is the MYP version:
A concept is a ”big idea”—a principle or notion that is enduring, the significance of which goes beyond particular origins, subject matter or place in time. Concepts represent the vehicle for students’ inquiry into the issues and ideas of personal, local and global significance, providing the means by which they can explore the essence individuals and societies.
Concepts have an important place in the structure of knowledge that requires students and teachers to think with increasing complexity as they organize and relate facts and topics.
Concepts express understanding that students take with them into lifelong adventures of learning. They help students to develop principles, generalizations and theories. Students use conceptual understanding as they solve problems, analyse issues, and evaluate decisions that can have an impact on themselves, their communities and the wider world.
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