Some ways of looking at – and seeing – micro-organisms by lower secondary school pupils (ranging in age from 11 to 14) have been singled out by means of the administration of a questionnaire and by encouraging pupils to reason out their answers. The study confirms the need to induce pupils to express their prior knowledge in order to improve teaching; allows the collection of a number of a very popular misconceptions (mould infecting food after it goes bad and why; micro-organisms travelling throughout the body and why; good and bad bacteria facing-off in combat in our body); and indicate mass media (mainly advertising spots and TV programmes) as pupils’ elective source of informations in the absence of any contribution at Italian school.
Bandiera, M. (2007). Micro-organisms: everyday knowledge predates and contrasts with school knowledge. In Contribution from Science Education Research (pp. 213-224). DORDRECHT : Springer.
Micro-organisms: everyday knowledge predates and contrasts with school knowledge
BANDIERA, Milena
2007-01-01
Abstract
Some ways of looking at – and seeing – micro-organisms by lower secondary school pupils (ranging in age from 11 to 14) have been singled out by means of the administration of a questionnaire and by encouraging pupils to reason out their answers. The study confirms the need to induce pupils to express their prior knowledge in order to improve teaching; allows the collection of a number of a very popular misconceptions (mould infecting food after it goes bad and why; micro-organisms travelling throughout the body and why; good and bad bacteria facing-off in combat in our body); and indicate mass media (mainly advertising spots and TV programmes) as pupils’ elective source of informations in the absence of any contribution at Italian school.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
