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Zhai, Junqing; Jocz, Jennifer Ann; Tan, Aik-Ling – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
A considerable body of evidence highlights how inquiry-based science can enhance students' epistemic and conceptual understanding of scientific concepts, principles, and theories. However, little is known about how students view themselves as learners of science. In this paper, we explore primary children's images of doing science in school and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Tan, Aik-Ling – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to identify tensions in teacher-student interaction in a high school biology laboratory. Using micro-analytic analysis of classroom talk, the interaction between the students and a teacher working in the biology laboratory session on "Reproduction in Plants" is studied. The two tensions highlighted here are…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Foreign Countries, Classroom Communication, Textbooks