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to reconceptualize

to reconceptualize

1 8.1
To think about something in a new way
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˌkɒnˈsɛptʃuəlaɪz/
  • Formal
translation icon : reconceptualizar
  • Technology offers us the opportunity to take another look at learning and to reconceptualize teaching.
  • need to reconceptualize
  • reconceptualized curriculum

So rights are not gotten rid of, but they're reconceptualized.

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Examples

  • Clearly, there are stirrings of a movement to reconceptualize the nation's testing agenda.

    Academic text (1990)

  • We need to reconceptualize our approach to education to better engage students.

  • In the long run, we may need to reconceptualize the rules protecting academic freedom.

    Academic text (1997)

  • These are ways in which science and technology studies have begun to reconceptualize land itself.

  • I simply think that we have to reconceptualize how we identify LD.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Social historians need to reconceptualize American sport history along three lines.

    Academic text (1993)

  • So we have to reconceptualize who's in charge, who owns pain?

  • The issue here is not only to recognize women's agency but also to reconceptualize state power.

    Academic text (2005)

  • First, institutions can reconceptualize their assumptions of proper test parameters.

    Academic text (2004)

  • He invited his readers to utterly reconceptualize their ideas about the world and our human place in it.

Synonyms

to redefine
vsto reconceptualize
66 4.9

To give something a new meaning that changes how people see it

is broader and changes overall understanding not only definitions
to reframe
vsto reconceptualize
14 4.8

Change the way you think about something to see it in a better way

aims at changing understanding more radically rather than improving usefulness
to turn (something) on its head
vsto reconceptualize
  • Informal
12 6.5

Make people see something in a very different way

is thinking about something in a completely new way
to reinterpret
vsto reconceptualize
10 5.8

To explain something again in a different way to give it a new meaning

is more about a complete new understanding rather than a simple reinterpretation
to reimagine
vsto reconceptualize
9 4.7

Think of something in a new way

focuses on changing understanding rather than creative presentation
to reconceive
vsto reconceptualize
1 7.4

Think about or plan something in a new way

focuses on changing understanding rather than on planning
to refigure
vsto reconceptualize
1 7.0

To change an idea, story, or image to fit a new setting

focuses on altering how something is seen rather than fully reinventing it
to recontextualize
vsto reconceptualize
  • Jargon
1 8.3

Putting something in a new setting changes its meaning

is about changing understanding overall not only moving context
to resituate
vsto reconceptualize
  • Formal
7.7

To place something in a new context so people see it differently

is about altering understanding rather than only changing context

How Different

to reinvent
102 4.3
to reconceptualize
  • Formal
1 8.1
rethink
4 4.2
revise
1 3.9

Surface Forms

reconceptualize infinitive
reconceptualized past
reconceptualized past participle
reconceptualizing present participle
reconceptualizes third person singular

Morphology

reconceptualize = conceptualize (semi-transparent) = re + concept + ual + ize

For learners who know 'conceptualize', adding 're-' clearly gives the sense of thinking about something again or in a new way.

Etymology

Reconceptualize is made of re- 'again' and concept 'idea', with -ize making it a verb. So, to reconceptualize is to form a new idea about something or to think about it again in a very different way.