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Sfärernas symfoni i förändring: lärande i miljö för hållbar utveckling med naturvetenskaplig utgångspunkt : en longitudinell studie i grundskolans tidigare årskurser
Kristianstad University, School of Teacher Education. (LUÄ, Lärande och undervisning i ett ämnesintegrerat perspektiv, MMH24)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9305-1215
2008 (Swedish)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This research deals with learning in science, including learning in environment for sustainable development. Learning in environment and sustainable development are obligatory perspectives in science as well as in other school subjects. The longitudinal study started in 2003, concerning 28 pupils nine years of age in a city in southern Sweden. Data collection has been caught in the pupils’ science lessons from year 2003 to 2006. In order to analyse the pupils’ development of concepts in science and in environment for sustainable development, I have videotaped a lot of sequences from the science lessons and followed up with questionnaires and questions in interviews. Stimulated recall is used to find the teacher’s intentions and reactions on the outcome of the lessons. The results are analysed according to the Earth System Science (ESS) model. It is a model, which describes the relations and interactions between the natural spheres: the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere as well as the biosphere, including man, and the technosphere/anthroposphere.

The longitudinal approach resulted in important findings regarding the changes in the pupils’ answers over time. They develop complicated 'concept webs'. The concepts found among the pupils in this study are e.g. the hydrological cycle; life; soil; water in every day life; pollution; non-polluting busses as well as waste; collecting batteries; corrosion; greenhouse and the increasing greenhouse effect. Some concepts e.g. the hydrological cycle, life and soil can from the beginning be classified as concepts used in science, but also to describe what happens in the environment. Concepts as pollution; non-polluting busses; collecting batteries; corrosion; greenhouse and increasing greenhouse effect are used by the pupils to express relations and interactions in and between the natural spheres including man. The relation between man and nature is for the pupils an area of conflicts through the entire study when the pupils from a scientific approach will be aware of the impact on living ecosystems including themselves, today and in the future. The concepts are often connected to each other in a more or less complicated network, 'concepts webs'. The obtained results indicate that the Socratic dialogue is a possible and successful method to use for the development of pupils’ concepts in environmental questions and issues.

Another finding in the study is how different methods, e.g. Play and learning, support environmental learning and learning for sustainable development during the science lessons. Play is important in integrated learning and gives opportunity to understand others’ perspectives, Theory of mind. The results indicate an integrated learning process by the pupils, implying in what way they express human impact on nature.

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Norrköping: Swedish National Graduate School in Science and Technology Education, FontD , 2008. , p. 263
Series
Studies in science and technology education, ISSN 1652-5051 ; 14
Keywords [en]
Science education, learning in environment for sustainable development, primary school, Earth System Science, Socratic dialogue, integrated learning, stimulated recall, play and learning, longitudinal study
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Pedagogy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-140ISBN: 978-91-85895-02-1 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hkr-140DiVA, id: diva2:157957
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2008-02-08, B42, Bomullsspinneriet, Campus Norrköping, Linköpings universitet, Norrköping, 13:00 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2009-01-28 Created: 2009-01-28 Last updated: 2018-04-23Bibliographically approved

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