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The most common primary school pupils' misconceptions based on the concept of protection in the chemical context
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Abstract Each pupil brings from his/her everyday life a lot of personal experiences and ideas. These ideas about various concepts and topics can sometimes be mistaken or completely wrong. A complex term misconception is used for a summary of these mistaken ideas. Misconception is seen as a wrong notion, wron... view more
Each pupil brings from his/her everyday life a lot of personal experiences and ideas. These ideas about various concepts and topics can sometimes be mistaken or completely wrong. A complex term misconception is used for a summary of these mistaken ideas. Misconception is seen as a wrong notion, wrong idea. It occurs in the context of the pupil's mistaken notions and mistaken conception of the curriculum or one of the forms of pupils' conception of the curriculum. In the course of teaching, pupils are affected not only by teachers, but also by pupil's ideas and experiences that pupils bring from their surroundings. Teachers should be able to work with these ideas and try to correct pupils' misconceptions. A part of this contribution is not only a literature review of the misconception issue, but mainly the results of a research carried out on pupils in the eighth and ninth grades in nine primary schools. The aim of the research was mapping the most common misconceptions associated with the concept of protection in the chemical context of the curriculum.... view less
Keywords
education; teaching; planning; conception; secondary education lower level; pupil
Classification
Sociology of Education
Curriculum, Teaching, Didactics
Secondary Education Sector Lower Level
Free Keywords
Idee; Mißverständnis
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 130-137
Journal
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2015) 65
ISSN
2300-2697
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed