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Towards renewed research questions from the outcomes of the European project Labwork in Science Education
Author(s) -
Séré MarieGeneviève
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
science education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.209
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1098-237X
pISSN - 0036-8326
DOI - 10.1002/sce.10040
Subject(s) - european commission , work (physics) , political science , philosophy of science , educational research , science education , sociology , mathematics education , psychology , pedagogy , european union , engineering ethics , engineering , epistemology , mechanical engineering , philosophy , business , economic policy
A research project about labwork at Upper secondary and Undergraduate levels was launched in 1996, funded by the European Commission. Seven research groups from six European countries participated in the surveys at European scale and carried out a number of case‐studies. This common work allowed numerous discussions which, months later, permit to articulate renewed directions of research about labwork. In this paper, new research questions are presented, drawing upon the outcomes of the project. One of them was to disclose numerous potential objectives which can be aimed for in a laboratory. This means that conscious choices must be taken among objectives. These are studied in this paper under the three classical headings of conceptual/epistemological/procedural objectives. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Sci Ed 86: 624–644, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/sce.10040