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to reconceptualize

to reconceptualize

1 8.1
To think about something in a new way
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˌkɒnˈsɛptʃuəlaɪz/
  • Formal
: 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
86 4.9

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

is broader and changes overall understanding not only definitions
to turn (something) on its head
vsto reconceptualize
  • Informal
15 6.5

Make people see something in a very different way

is thinking about something in a completely new way
to reframe
vsto reconceptualize
15 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 reimagine
vsto reconceptualize
11 4.7

Think of something in a new way

focuses on changing understanding rather than creative presentation
to reinterpret
vsto reconceptualize
8 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 reconceive
vsto reconceptualize
2 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
1 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
98 4.3
to reconceptualize
  • Formal
1 8.1
rethink
8 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.