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The particulate nature of matter in science education and in science

✍ Scribed by Wobbe de Vos; Adri H. Verdonk

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 602 KB
Volume: 33
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-4308
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2736(199608)33:6<657::aid-tea4>3.0.co;2-n

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✦ Synopsis

This article addresses ideas about the particulate nature of matter that are considered to be correct or acceptable in science education and studies of children's misconceptions. It argues that science teachers and educators use educational as well as scientific criteria for correctness, and that these criteria do not always coincide. Relations between the particulate nature of matter in science and science education are analyzed in an attempt to make more intelligible children's inclination to attribute all kinds of macroscopic properties to particles.

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