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Swanson, Carolyn – Teachers and Curriculum, 2016
This paper highlights the use of a drama convention--"Role on the Wall"--to teach the Nature of Science (NOS) in a Year 7/8 classroom. Students were positioned as "expert" scientists re-investigating the science behind the sinking of the Wahine in a Mantle of the Expert unit. Students drew a "Role on the Wall" of a…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Scientists
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Lunn, M.; Noble, A. – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
The often portrayed media image of the scientist is a rather strange one, grim-looking scientists, usually male, poised beside incomprehensible instruments. It is little wonder that we encounter the stereotype of the bespectacled scientist; thick black rims, coke bottle lenses, roman sandals, dressed in lab coats, trousers up to their necks. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientists, Stereotypes, Mass Media Effects
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Bradford, Janet – Impact of Science on Society, 1980
Presents a report from an oceanographer in New Zealand who analyzes the predominant moves of the citizens of New Zealand when it comes to rearing children and apportioning sex roles. She relates her own background and proposes measures for social reform. (Author/SA)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Employed Women, Higher Education