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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
Berggren, Johannes – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study examines the presence of three conceptual metaphors for fractions -- The measuring stick metaphor, Arithmetic is motion along a path, and Arithmetic is object construction -- in four common and popular Swedish mathematics textbook series for years 1-3. I analyse the introduction of fractions and the kinds of tasks students are given in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Students, Arithmetic, Textbooks
Kropman, Marc; van Boxtel, Carla; van Drie, Jannet – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2020
School history textbooks provide an important source of information for learners of history. Textbook narratives of a nation's past often present a limited frame of reference, which impedes the aim of teaching history from multiple perspectives. This article examines the representation of the Dutch Revolt in two Dutch and two Flemish history…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Textbooks, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries
Metani, Idriz; Dano, Sidita – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
Lexical meaning, as an important and essential aspect of the word, has long attracted the attention of scholars, who, in trying to know its nature, have sometimes mystified it by seeing it as an inexplicable thing and sometimes simplified it, equating it with the function of the word, with the concept, even with the "reali" itself that…
Descriptors: Semantics, Indo European Languages, Computational Linguistics, Textbooks
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
Becerikli, Sabri; Yildirim, Sevda Gülsah – Educational Research and Reviews, 2018
The present study aims to investigate the subjects of the works written on moral and citizenship education during the Tanzimat period and after and the methods considered for these courses. The other aim of this study is to demonstrate that the Ottoman educators were not unaware of the methods implemented in the lessons in today's modern education…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Citizenship Education, Teaching Methods, Moral Development
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
Korbits, Keit – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
The article looks at the discursive strategies different Estonian history textbooks employ to represent the Cold War period, and the "commonsense" ideologies instilled through these representations. The textbooks analysed include two history books dating back to the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic and, for contrast, one written during…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Textbooks, Social Change
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
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
Skorczynska Sznajder, Hanna – English for Specific Purposes, 2010
This study aims to evaluate the selection of metaphors in a published business English textbook using findings from a specialised corpus of written business English. While most scholars agree that metaphors should be included in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) syllabuses as a potentially problematic area in successful language learning, it is…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Figurative Language, Journal Articles, English for Special Purposes
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2008
Proceedings of Annual Research Forum. 34 studies. Cultural Awareness in Secondary Spanish (Amy Allen), Writing in Mathematics (Lindsey L. Bakewell), Homework: Assignment Methods and Student Engagement (Lia Beresford), Current Events and Social Studies (Jennie Marie Biser), Authentic Assessments in Social Studies (Carl Boland), Assessment in High…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Secondary Education, Second Language Instruction, Spanish