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- Title
Hierarchical Organization in Concept Maps as a path to explain the Elaboration of Knowledge in the History of Science.
- Authors
Santos Souza, Paulo Victor; Máximo-Pereira, Marta; Baffa Lourenço, Ariane
- Abstract
An alternative to insert history of science (HS) in teacher formation programs is the use of concept maps (CM), which may be very useful to represent the historical elaboration dimension of science concepts, laws, and principles. This paper presents the results of a study that identifies the conceptions of pre-service physics teachers about the relationships between CM hierarchical organization and knowledge elaboration in HS. In the first stage of the research, the content analysis methodology was used to analyze and categorize the students' answers to questions concerning the relationships between CM hierarchical organization and HS. In the second stage, the answers of a different group of pre-service teachers were analyzed concerning the level of agreement with the categories previously elaborated. The students associated CM hierarchical organization with knowledge improvement, elucidation of the importance level of the concepts, and the relationships between more general and more specific contents. We point out that the use of CM in HS subjects may contribute to the pre-service teachers associating HS concepts not in a chronological way, but in hierarchical order, from the most general to the most specific ones.
- Subjects
CONCEPT mapping; HISTORY of science; STUDENT teachers; PHYSICS teachers; STUDENT response systems; IMAGINARY histories
- Publication
Science Education International, 2024, Vol 35, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
1450-104X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.33828/sei.v35.i1.3