Stylianidou, Fani and Ormerod, Fiona and Ogborn, Jon (2002) Analysis of science textbook pictures about energy and pupils' readings of them. International Journal of Science Education, 24 (3). pp. 257-283. ISSN 0950-0693 (print); 1464-5289 (electronic)
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Abstract
This article outlines the findings of the part of the "Science Teacher Training in an Information Society" (STTIS) project concerned with describing the possible difficulties the pupils have when "reading" science textbook pictures about "energy". Six documents were selected on the basis that they had some of the textual/graphical features previously identified by the project as potentially presenting difficulties to pupils. The pupils' readings of these were investigated using a questionnaire and a follow-up interview. The analysis of three of the documents and of twelve pupils' readings of them is reported in this paper. The results confirm the hypothesis that the "reading" of science textbook pictures is not at all trivial for pupils and conclude that teachers need to spend time and effort talking through the meaning of the images with them. They also suggest that the list of textual/graphical features used in this research is a good starting point for this kind of critical examination.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is an electronic version of an article published in Stylianidou, Fani and Ormerod, Fiona and Ogborn, Jon (2002) Analysis of science textbook pictures about energy and pupils' readings of them. International Journal of Science Education, 24 (3). pp. 257-283 International Journal of Science Education is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/09500690110078905 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 11 - 16 UK Secondary school Science Teaching aids Semiotics |
| Subjects: | Departments > Geography, Enterprise, Mathematics and Science |
| Depositing User: | IOE Repository Editor (1) |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2010 11:48 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2012 22:24 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/970 |
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