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Historical Models and Science Instruction: A Cross-Cultural Analysis Based on Students' Views
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Liu, Shu-Chiu – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2006
The paper is an extended work from a previous study on Taiwanese and German students' conceptions of the universe (Liu, 2005). The study revealed that students discuss astronomical events and entities based on a mental model of universe and their models of the universe seem to have similar underlying principles with historical ones. In present…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Student Attitudes, Scientific Concepts, Science History