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Direct linkRoth, Wolff-Michael – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
For many students, the experience with science tends to be alienating and uprooting. In this study, I take up Simone Weil's concepts of "enracinement" (rooting) and "déracinement" (uprooting) to theorize the root of this alienation, the confrontation between children's familiarity with the world and unfamiliar/strange…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Phenomenology, Alienation
Horn, Michael S.; Phillips, Brenda C.; Evans, Evelyn Margaret; Block, Florian; Diamond, Judy; Shen, Chia – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
In this study, we investigate museum visitor learning and engagement at an interactive visualization of an evolutionary tree of life consisting of over 70,000 species. The study was conducted at two natural history museums where visitors collaboratively explored the tree of life using direct touch gestures on a multi-touch tabletop display. In the…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Science Instruction, Museums, Evolution
Haworth, Claire M. A.; Dale, Philip S.; Plomin, Robert – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2009
Background: Are there sex differences in the etiology of high performance in science in childhood that could contribute to the under-representation of women in scientific careers? In this study the relative contributions of genetic and environmental influences on high performance in science in both boys and girls were assessed using standard twin…
Descriptors: Genetics, Twins, Females, Etiology
