Drawing for Science Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: Drawing and Science are Inseparable

   • Phyllis Katz

   Pages 1-8

3. Drawing a Single Image

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Draw Your Physics Homework?

      • Jatila Van Der Veen

      Pages 11-29

   3. Reflective Drawings as Means for Depicting ICTS Roles in Science and Engineering Learning in the 21st Century

      • Miri Barak

      Pages 31-40

   4. Can I Get Directions to My Kidneys Please?

      • Patricia Patrick

      Pages 41-54

   5. Development of Biological Literacy through Drawing Organisms

      • Amauri Betini Bartoszeck, Sue Dale Tunnicliffe

      Pages 55-65

   6. Anatomic Drawing for Medical Education

      • Gary Wind

      Pages 67-71

   7. Learning from Children’s Drawings of Nature

      • Amy Dai

      Pages 73-86

   8. The Understanding of Human Anatomy Elicited from Drawings of Some Bangladeshi Village Women and Children

      • Sue Dale Tunnicliffe, Angshuman Sarker

      Pages 87-93

4. Drawings in a Series to Examine Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Drawing Experiences in Marine Conservation

      • Jill Cainey, Lauren Humphrey, Rob Bowker

      Pages 97-109

   3. Discovering Children’s Science Associations Utilizing Drawings

      • Susanne Neumann, Martin Hopf

      Pages 111-121

   4. Using Drawings to Demonstrate Informal Science Learning Experiences through the Contextual Model of Learning

      • Katrina Roseler, Michael Dentzau

      Pages 123-133

   5. Appropriate Integration of Children’s Drawings in the Acquisition of Science Concepts

      • Ni Chang

      Pages 135-145

   6. Changes in Children’s Knowledge about their Internal Anatomy Between First and Ninth Grades

      • Michèle Stears, Edith Roslyn Dempster

      Pages 147-154

   7. Learning Physics at Science Centers

      • Terrence Mcclafferty, Léonie Rennie

      Pages 155-167

5. Drawings that Illustrate the Perceived Culture of Science (Who and What)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. The Evolution of the Analysis of the Draw-a-Scientist Test

      • Donna Farland-Smith

      Pages 171-178

   3. Using Drawing to Reveal Science Teachers’ Beliefs about Science Teaching

      • Sulaiman Al-Balushi, Abdullah Ambusaidi

      Pages 179-189

This book argues for the essential use of drawing as a tool for science teaching and learning. The authors are working in schools, universities, and continual science learning (CSL) settings around the world. They have written of their experiences using a variety of prompts to encourage people to take pen to paper and draw their thinking – sometimes direct observation and in other instances, their memories. The result is a collection of research and essays that offer theory, techniques, outcomes, and models for the reader. Young children have provided evidence of the perceptions that they have accumulated from families and the media before they reach classrooms. Secondary students describe their ideas of chemistry and physics. Teacher educators use drawings to consider the progress of their undergraduates’ understanding of science teaching and even their moral/ethical responses to teaching about climate change. Museum visitors have drawn their understanding of the physics of how exhibit sounds are transmitted. A physician explains how the history of drawing has been a critical tool to medical education and doctor-patient communications. Each chapter contains samples, insights, and where applicable, analysis techniques. The chapters in this book should be helpful to researchers and teachers alike, across the teaching and learning continuum. The sections are divided by the kinds of activities for which drawing has historically been used in science education: An instance of observation (Audubon, Linnaeus); A process (how plants grow over time, what happens when chemicals combine); Conceptions of what science is and who does it; Images of identity development in science teaching and learning.

• Visual data from drawings in science education
• Drawing analysis in science education
• Drawing for science teaching
• Drawing for science learning
• Interpreting drawings

• University of Maryland, USA

  Phyllis Katz

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