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- Title
A NEGLECTED FACTOR IN THE TEACHING OF ELEMENTARY SCIENCE.
- Authors
Haupt, G. W.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the importance of hypotheses coming from children in the teaching of science in elementary education. The hypothesis may be variously described yet it is popularly characterized as a guess. This description, however contributed to the negligence of student teachers and other inexperienced ones to consider and identify correct hypotheses coming from children. Tentative solution, is another common description of hypothesis in elementary science which is defined as a solution that has not as yet been adequately tested relative to the particular questions and facts under consideration. Adequacy in harmonizing two facts or sets is a good criterion of good hypothesis. However, it must be noted that a valid hypothesis need not be a correct one.
- Subjects
HYPOTHESIS; REASONING; SCHOOL children; SCIENCE education (Elementary); SCIENTIFIC method; PHILOSOPHY of science; SCIENCE education; GRADUATE study in education; ELEMENTARY education
- Publication
Science Education, 1939, Vol 23, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730230109