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Download full textTuba Demirci; Gamze Kocabas – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2025
This study explores the metaphorical perceptions of gifted students towards basic science concepts. A total of 210 gifted students participated in the study, which utilized a phenomenology design to reveal the metaphors used by students to describe the concepts of 'universe, living thing, matter, light, sound, electricity and environment'. A…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Figurative Language, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Direct linkLarsson, Andreas; Stafstedt, Matilda; Schönborn, Konrad J. – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2019
Thermal science is a perennial obstacle for learners. Infrared camera technology provides an opportunity for pupils to confront challenging thermal ideas. From an embodied cognition perspective, sensory experiences form metaphoric relations that underpin conceptualisation and reasoning about abstract scientific phenomena. This study investigated…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Elementary School Students, Children, Grade 4
Yurdakal, Ibrahim Halil – Online Submission, 2019
To determine the perceptions of the students in primary school on important concepts / values in cultural, historical and social context is of great importance in determining the views of students about these values. In this regard, in this present study, it is purposed to determine the metaphorical perceptions of the 4th grade students on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Student Attitudes
Saenz-Ludlow, Adalira – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2004
Fourth-grade students who participated in a yearlong, whole-class teaching experiment not only reconceptualized natural numbers but also generated flexible solution strategies to perform numerical computations mentally and in writing. Students' reconceptualization of number was mediated by their perceived resemblance between the physical action of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Semiotics, Computer Uses in Education, Concept Formation
