SOCIOCOGNITIVE CONFLICT PROCESSES IN SCIENCE LEARNING: BENEFITS AND LIMITS

TitleSOCIOCOGNITIVE CONFLICT PROCESSES IN SCIENCE LEARNING: BENEFITS AND LIMITS
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsSkoumios, M
JournalJournal of Baltic Science Education
Volume7
Issue3
Start Page165-174
Date PublishedOctober/2008
Type of ArticleOriginal article
ISSN1648-3898
Other NumbersICID: 877558
Keywordsfloating, science learning, sinking, sociocognitive conflict
Abstract

The present paper focuses on instructional treatment of students’ conceptions about floating and sinking through sociocognitive conflict processes. In this direction a study was prepared including the detection of students’ conceptions of floating and sinking as well as the design, implementation and evaluation of teaching sequences implemented in 14 year-old students in Greece. Data collection was carried out through interviews and qualitative analysis of the students’ writings and talk during the teaching sequences. The analysis of the students’ writings and talk brought out their different reactions to sociocognitive conflict processes as well as the different learning outcomes of those processes as regards the change and construction of new conceptions.

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Refereed DesignationRefereed
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