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.
2007
978-1-4020-5031-2
Bandiera, M. (2007). Micro-organisms: everyday knowledge predates and contrasts with school knowledge. In Contribution from Science Education Research (pp. 213-224). DORDRECHT : Springer.
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