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ERIC Number: EJ639994
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0950-0693
Ideas about Earthquakes after Experiencing a Natural Disaster in Taiwan: An Analysis of Students' Worldviews.
Tsai, Chin-Chung
International Journal of Science Education, v23 n10 p1007-16 Oct 2001
Explores students' worldviews as revealed by their ideas about the causality of earthquakes after experiencing the natural disaster. Finds that students accept scientific ideas and abandon their original worldviews, accept scientific ideas and retain their original worldviews, or retain their original worldviews and ignore the scientific worldview. Suggests that science educators need to integrate socio-cultural aspects of science and of learning science into science education research and practice. (Author/MM)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Misconceptions, Science Education, Seismology, Sociocultural Patterns, Student Attitudes
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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