Conceptual knowledge - underlying principles, concepts, frameworks and relationships

• It includes ways of organising information and ideas, including knowledge of theories and principles.

• This type of knowledge helps you structure factual knowledge, as well as understanding the relationships among information and other ideas.

• Conceptual knowledge involves understanding overarching principles or concepts that govern a domain or a problem.

• It’s about grasping the underlying framework or system that organises individual pieces of knowledge.

• This definition includes

  1. knowing information classification and categorisation,
  2. knowing principles and generalisations, and
  3. knowing theories, models, and structures. 

• Basically, conceptual knowledge is knowing that facts can be organised in meaningful ways

insight