Overview
- This book brings together international science educators who have used drawings to elicit thinking across ages from young children to medical teaching, as well as visitors to out-of-school settings.
- The book provides many examples of actual drawings and how they can be interpreted.
- The book provides unforeseen insights into how the drawing medium helps reveal thinking that might not be elucidated by verbal questions or written choices, such as how a group of Bangladeshi women came to know the location of their kidneys more than other organs or the influence of media on a group of Austrian students studying nuclear energy before and after Fukushima.
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Drawing a Single Image
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Front Matter
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Drawings in a Series to Examine Change
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Drawings that Illustrate the Perceived Culture of Science (Who and What)
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Drawing for Science Education
Book Subtitle: An International Perspective
Editors: Phyllis Katz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-875-4
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-875-4Published: 23 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: CCLXX, 10
Topics: Education, general