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Representations of the Nature of Science in South African Physical Sciences Textbooks on Electricity and Magnetism
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Yeh, Yi-Fen; Dhurumraj, Thasmai; Ramnarain, Umesh – Science & Education, 2023
Developing students' understanding of and about science is an important educational goal. Learning the nature of science (NOS) has been recognized as a critical component of science literacy, affecting how students (our future citizens) make informed decisions. Textbooks can be useful teaching materials if the content presented aligns with…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Foreign Countries, Physical Sciences, Textbooks
South African Grade 12 Science Students' Understandings of Scientific Inquiry
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Penn, Mafor; Ramnarain, Umesh – Science & Education, 2022
The ability to do inquiry does not necessarily translate to understandings about scientific inquiry or the processes by which scientific knowledge is generated. The study reported in this paper focuses on what students know about scientific inquiry and what impact school science may have on this knowledge. We investigated grade 12 physical and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 12, Science Instruction, Inquiry
What Knowledge Is Worth Knowing? A Bernsteinian Analysis of Higher Primary Science Curricula in Contrasting Socioeconomic Contexts
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Dempster, Edith R. – Science & Education, 2020
The paper reports a study that used a Bernsteinian analysis in order to investigate the association between higher primary science curriculum and social equity in four contrasting socioeconomic contexts: British Columbia (Canada), Singapore, South Africa and Kenya. The official science curriculum of each jurisdiction was analysed in terms of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Socioeconomic Influences, Context Effect, Correlation