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ERIC Number: EJ605632
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0950-0693
Learning Science through Contexts: Helping Pupils Make Sense of Everyday Situations.
Campbell, Bob; Lubben, Fred
International Journal of Science Education, v22 n3 p239-52 Mar 2000
Documents Swazi students' written explanations of everyday actions in terms of an awareness of the social and economic implications of science, their skills in designing experiments to solve everyday dilemmas, and their abilities to draw on relevant science concepts to solve everyday problems. Finds that considerably less than half of the students display any of these abilities. (Contains 13 references.) (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, Problem Solving, Relevance (Education), Science and Society, Science Experiments, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Methodology, Scientific Principles, Student Attitudes
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Swaziland