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Conversations about the moon with prospective teachers in Japan
Author(s) -
Suzuki Mariko
Publication year - 2003
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.10082
Subject(s) - phenomenon , natural phenomenon , mathematics education , natural (archaeology) , psychology , pedagogy , epistemology , history , philosophy , archaeology
As an instructor in courses for prospective teachers, I am interested in my students' ideas and ways in which they reconstruct their ideas in conversations about science. In the case study presented here, I reflect upon (a) ways in which I engaged prospective teachers in thinking together about their observations of a natural phenomenon, the changing phases of the moon, and (b) the ideas that they expressed. The case study examines ways in which prospective teachers developed understandings of the sun–earth–moon system from two perspectives: as viewed from the earth and from outside the solar system. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Sci Ed 87: 892–910, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/sce.10082