ERIC Number: EJ1353441
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0950-0693
EISSN: EISSN-1464-5289
Aesthetic Experience and Imagination in Early Elementary School Science -- A Growth of 'Science-Art-Language-Game'
Caiman, Cecilia; Jakobson, Britt
International Journal of Science Education, v44 n5 p833-853 2022
The purpose is to contribute knowledge to the field regarding the role of aesthetic experience when young students participate in intertwined science-art activities in science class. More precisely, we scrutinise how science suggestions are shaped in students' processes of imagination when exploring animal's ecology. Data corpus comprises audio recordings, photographs, drawings and field notes. The school is located in Sweden and the participating students were between 6 and 7 years old (Swedish grade 1). Seven students and their teacher participated in the study. The dialogues were analysed by means of a practical epistemology analysis (PEA), based on Dewey and the later Wittgenstein. In addition, the analytical term pictorial relation is launched to analyse the visual language exposed in students' drawings. The results reveal that throughout the process, the young students in transaction with the contextual features, imagined suggestions and solutions to science-related issues. Facts and fiction, sense and nonsense blended when new solutions of pleasurable hiding-places for prey were aesthetically and imaginatively explored and designed. In addition, the students owned the problem throughout and developed agency, which resulted in novel science-art outcomes and the students' communicative repertoire was extended when involved in intertwined dialogues and art activities.
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Education, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Imagination, Animals, Visual Arts, Art Activities, Inquiry, Elementary School Science, Ethics, Language Acquisition, Science Activities, STEM Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Grade 1; Primary Education
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Language: English
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