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Navare, Charudatta – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2023
A number of scholars have shown the prevalence of multiple metaphors in biological conceptions of the living cell. However, there is little research into unpacking these metaphors to understand their ideological implications for scientific knowledge and science education. In this paper, I perform a critical discourse analysis of the representation…
Descriptors: Cytology, Science Instruction, Textbooks, Content Analysis
Petchey, Sara; Treagust, David; Niebert, Kai – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Abstract concepts dominate university science teaching, and much of this content is taught without sufficient connection to students' prior knowledge or everyday experiences. As this can be problematic for students, the aim of this research was to determine the utility and effectiveness of a professional development module on using analogies to…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Figurative Language
Fidan, Mustafa; Debbag, Murat; Cukurbasi, Baris – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2021
The aim of this study is to reveal perceptions of pre-service teachers about 'LEGO robotic instructional practices,' 'augmented reality' and 'flipped classroom' concepts through metaphors. The study is descriptive research that was conducted as a survey model. The study group consists of 37 pre-service teachers studying the undergraduate programme…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Robotics, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes
Yadigaroglu, Mustafa; Demircioglu, Gökhan; Demircioglu, Hülya; Akar, Hayriye – Online Submission, 2018
The purpose of this study is to explore the metaphorical perceptions of science teacher candidates towards teacher and teaching profession. Qualitative research method was used in the study and "phenomenological approach" was employed as the design of the study. The participants of the study are comprised of 102 teacher candidates who…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Figurative Language, Preservice Teachers
García-Carmona, Antonio – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2021
This article presents a study focused on analysing the effectiveness of an activity about the use of analogies in science communication. The activity consisted of reading two science articles published in a prestigious digital newspaper about the first image of a black hole. The purpose was (i) to identify and analyse the analogies used in the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Content Analysis
Conrad, Dominik; Libarkin, Julie C. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2022
Many geoscience phenomena cannot be perceived at human temporal or spatial scales. As a consequence, we can only understand many processes that drive geological phenomena through analogical reasoning. Building deep conceptual understanding requires instruction that activates the appropriate source analogs and allows students to build useful…
Descriptors: Plate Tectonics, Science Instruction, Figurative Language, Content Analysis
Satmaz, Ismail; Tortop, Hasan Said; Temi, Elmaziye – Higher Education Studies, 2018
This study aims to reveal the metaphorical perceptions related to the concept of Science and Art Center (SAC,) which is a state institution where the gifted students in Turkey receive support for their education. For this purpose, gifted students were asked to produce metaphors about SAC concepts. The participants of the research are 59 students…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Phenomenology
Taibu, Rex; Rudge, David; Schuster, David – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
The term "weight" has multiple related meanings in both scientific and everyday usage. Even among experts and in textbooks, weight is ambiguously defined as either the gravitational force on an object or operationally as the magnitude of the force an object exerts on a measuring scale. This poses both conceptual and language difficulties…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Physics, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses
Dikmenli, Musa – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2015
Analogies have many advantages for students such as concretizing abstract concepts and enabling motivation. Analogies are frequently used in textbooks. Research shows that the analogies in textbooks are not used based on certain directives and sometimes lead to misconceptions for students. Therefore, analysing the analogies in textbooks on several…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Grade 9, High School Students, Biology
Aglarci, Oya – Online Submission, 2015
The aim of this study is to determine freshmen and senior prospective teachers' views of science by using their metaphors. Case study as a qualitative research design was benefited in the study. 145 prospective chemistry and science teachers from a university in Istanbul have participated in the study. Participants were asked to complete some…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Höst, Gunnar E.; Anward, Jan – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
Learning to talk science is an important aspect of learning to do science. Given that scientists' language frequently includes intentions and purposes in explanations of unobservable objects and events, teachers must interpret whether learners' use of such language reflects a scientific understanding or inaccurate anthropomorphism and teleology.…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Science Instruction, Semi Structured Interviews, Student Attitudes
Danielsson, Kristina; Selander, Staffan – Designs for Learning, 2016
The re-conceptualisation of texts over the last 20 years, as well as the development of a multimodal understanding of communication and representation of knowledge, has profound consequences for the reading and understanding of multimodal texts, not least in educational contexts. However, if teachers and students are given tools to…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Course Content, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
Felzmann, Dirk – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
To date, there has only been little conceptual change research regarding conceptions about glaciers. This study used the theoretical background of embodied cognition to reconstruct different metaphorical concepts with respect to the structure of a glacier. Applying the Model of Educational Reconstruction, the conceptions of students and scientists…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Scientific Concepts, Natural Resources, Concept Formation
Niebert, Kai; Gropengießer, Harald – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
Over the last 20 years, science education studies have reported that there are very different understandings among students of science regarding the key aspects of climate change. We used the cognitive linguistic framework of experientialism to shed new light on this valuable pool of studies to identify the conceptual resources of understanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Scientists, Climate
Marcelos, Maria Fatima; Nagem, Ronaldo L. – Science & Education, 2010
Our objective is to contribute to the teaching of Classical Darwinian "Evolution" by means of a study of analogies and metaphors. Throughout the history of knowledge about "Evolution" and in Science teaching, tree structures have been used an analogs to refer to "Evolution," such as by Darwin in the "Tree of Life" passage contained in "On The…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Logical Thinking, Evolution, Science Education