Which conceptual change camp are you in?

I've come to a snag in my dissertation research. My advisor and I belong to different "camps" when it comes to conceptual change. Which camp are you in and why? I am studying the conceptual change in civil engineering students.

(1)knowledge-as-theory perspectives and (2) knowledge-as elements perspectives. Essentially, is a student’s knowledge most accurately represented as a coherent unified framework of theory-like character (e.g., Carey, 1999; Chi, 2005; Ioannides & Vosniadou, 2002; Wellman & Gelman, 1992)? Or is a student’s knowledge more aptly considered as an ecology of quasi-independent elements (e.g., Clark, 2006; diSessa, Gillespie, & Esterly, 2004; Harrison, Grayson, & Treagust, 1999; Linn, Eylon, & Davis, 2004)?

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