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- Title
Children's Ideas About the Solar System and the Chaos in Learning Science.
- Authors
Sharp, John G.; Kuerbis, Paul
- Abstract
The article presents a study based on ideas of children about the solar system. The study observed a relatively poorly developed prior knowledge base among students in the predominantly intuitive and transitional nature of the different ideas and mental models. The complexity and non-linearity of the study also drew attention to the characteristic signatures of systems that exhibit chaos. The application of chaos theory to science education, discussed in the study, provides a relatively new and potentially valuable theoretical and analytical framework for studying the effectiveness of teaching and learning at school. It also provides a suitable tool to challenge the linear, reductionist, and compliance-driven approaches to the pre-service and in-service training of teachers and curriculum development increasingly popular worldwide. The construction of the solar system knowledge can be taken into consideration in terms of both weak and radical knowledge restructuring. Radical restructuring includes the appearance of new knowledge and a change in core concepts, a change in structure, and a change in the phenomena to be explained.
- Subjects
SPACE exploration; CHAOS theory; SOLAR system; CURRICULUM; GRADUATE study in education; EFFECTIVE teaching; IN-service training of teachers; SYSTEMS theory; EDUCATIONAL objectives
- Publication
Science Education, 2006, Vol 90, Issue 1, p124
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.20126