It is a general idea or concept of something, combining all its characteristics or particulars. This paradigm encourages a conceptualization of substance abuse prevention issues as a public health concern. Conceptualization is the process of specifying what we mean when we use particular terms. It is the reverse process of conception. Example: When we see the concept “feminism”, we make a list of phenomena representing the concept. Different researchers may conceptualize a concept slightly differently. Gruber has defined a conceptualization as “the objects, concepts, and other entities that are assumed to exist in some area of interest and the relationships that hold among them. A conceptualization is an abstract, simplified view of the world that we wish to represent for some purpose.” Conceptualising with theory is the process whereby students learn ways in which the concepts they are learning about connect, or are connected together, to form theories. It is the process through which concepts are contextualised, meaning is thickened and understanding is deepened.

Karthika LJ

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