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ERIC Number: EJ512652
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4308
Investigation of Worldview Theory in a South African Context.
Lawrenz, Frances; Gray, Brian
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, v32 n6 p555-68 Aug 1995
Carried out an investigation to identify conceptions of some components of worldview held by science student teachers (n=48) in a South African context. Explores relationships among worldviews, student characteristics, and scientific concepts. Reports that students' conceptions of time and distance were nonmechanistic and psychologically bound and that authoritarian scientific explanations were considered as sufficient proof. (22 references) (Author/JRH)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Distance, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Misconceptions, Questionnaires, Science Education, Science Teachers, Scientific Concepts, Student Teachers, Teacher Education, Time, World Views
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Science Education Research; South Africa