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Derginin Adı:
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International Journal of Environmental and Science Education
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Cilt:
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2012/7
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Sayı:
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3
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Makale Başlık:
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The mediating role of scientific tools for elementary school students learning about the Everglades in the field and classroom
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Makale Eklenme Tarihi:
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4.02.2015
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Okunma Sayısı:
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1
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Makale Özeti:
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There has been an increased use of authentic practices in both science and environmental
education in recent years. Such practices can utilize social constructivist frameworks to
consider the learning that may be taking place as students become engaged in tool use. The
current study focuses on a group of elementary school students studying the Everglades in
the field and in a classroom setting during one academic year. In particular, we observed
students’ use of tools (identified as tool-conventions to include both artifacts and
conventions) and compared their use in both settings. We found that in the field, students
spent considerable amount of time engaged in data collection activity such as taking observations
and measurements that resembled what scientists might be doing and included the
invention of new tools to facilitate data gathering. In this context, students generally
worked more independently from the teacher, collaborated in small work groups, and
engaged in more self-directed inquiry. In the classroom, while some of the scientific field
tools were practiced in anticipation of their use in the field, activity included more teacher
direction, often resembling what might be found in other types of classroom work and the
tools used there often supported this work. Models of tool use based on Yrjö Engeström’s
activity approach were constructed for both settings. Implications of the results include the
importance of viewing tool use in authentic learning with a sociocultural and activity
perspective to reflect the socially constructed nature of such learning.
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