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Owens, David C.; Reiss, Michael J. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2023
As the coronavirus pandemic unfolded, the use of the term "Chinavirus" to refer to the virus that causes COVID-19 had societal consequences, resulting in discrimination against individuals of Asian descent. In this study of the language used when talking about COVID-19, we used an emergent thematic analysis to explore the potential for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, Language Usage
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Wee, Bryan – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
Children's everyday ideas form critical foundations for science learning yet little research has been conducted to understand and legitimize these ideas, particularly from an international perspective. This paper explores children's everyday ideas about the environment across the US, Singapore and China to understand what they reveal about…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Science Education, Asian Americans, Foreign Countries
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Liu, Ping – International Education, 2008
At the elementary school level, two studies (Eicher, Piersma, & Wood, 1975; Liu 2004) were conducted to investigate school children's knowledge, perceptions, and understanding about China. Findings from these studies implied that the U.S. children's knowledge of China was predominantly related to their exposure to Chinatown or Chinese…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Asian American Students