Children's ideas in science / edited by Rosalind Driver ... [et al.].
Contributor(s): Driver, Rosalind
| Guesne, Edith | Tiberghien, Andrée.
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BookPublisher: Milton Keynes : Open University Press, 1985 (1998)Description: xi, 208 p. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0335150403.Subject(s): Science -- Study and teaching | Students -- Attitudes -- EvaluationDDC classification: 372.35044 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Children arrive in their science classrooms with their own ideas and interpretations of the phenomena they are to study even when they have received no systematic instruction in these subjects whatsoever. These ideas and interpretations are a natural result of everyday experience - of practical physical activities, of talking with other people, and of the media.
This book documents and explores the ideas of school students (aged 10-16) about a range of natural phenomena such as light, heat, force and motion, the structure of matter and electricity. It also examines how students' conceptions change and develop with teaching.
The editors have brought together science educators who come from different parts of the work but whose work is focused on the same determination to bring insight into the conceptual world of children in science classrooms - insight which will be helpful in making science teaching and learning more rewarding for teachers and children alike.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Children's ideas and the learning of science / Rosalind Driver, Edith Guesne and Andree Tiberghien -- Light / Edith Guesne -- Electricity in simple circuits / David Shipstone -- Heat and temperature / Gaalen Erickson and Andree Tiberghien -- Force and motion / Richard Gunstone and Michael Watts -- The gaseous state / Marie Genieve Sere -- The particulate nature of matter in the gaseous phase / Joseph Nussbaum -- Beyond appearances: The conservation of matter under physical and chemical transformations / Rosalind Driver -- The earth as a cosmic body / Joseph Nussbaum -- Some features of children's ideas and their implications for teaching / Rosalind Driver, Edith Guesne and Andree Tiberghien.