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Wood, Lorelei – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Chemistry as a subject is difficult to learn and understand, due in part to the specific language used by practitioners in their professional and scientific communications. The language and ways of representing chemical interactions have been grouped into three modes of representation used by chemistry instructors, and ultimately by students in…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts
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Jakab, Cheryl – Research in Science Education, 2013
This paper reports on 6-11-year-old children's "sayings and doings" (HarrĂ© 2002) as they explore molecule artefacts in dialectical-interactive teaching interviews (Fleer, "Cultural Studies of Science Education" 3:781-786, 2008; Hedegaard et al. 2008). This sociocultural study was designed to explore children's…
Descriptors: Children, Science Process Skills, Scientific Attitudes, Discourse Analysis