Abrahams, Ian (2017) Minds-on practical work for effective science learning. In: Science Education. Sense Publishers, London, pp. 401-411. ISBN 978-94-6300-749-8
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This chapter, based on a longer and more detailed account of practical work (Abrahams & Millar 2008), considers the role of practical work in the teaching of scientific knowledge. What the two quotes above, separated by just over twenty years, illustrate is how opinion-based views regarding the role of laboratory-based practical work, however self-evidently true those views might appear, are being challenged by the findings from educational research that has increasingly questioned the role and effectiveness of laboratory-based practical work. The term practical work is used here to refer to any work in which pupils are involved in manipulating and/or observing real (as opposed to virtual) objects and materials.
| Keywords: | Science learning |
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| Subjects: | X Education > X342 Academic studies in Higher Education |
| Divisions: | College of Social Science > School of Education |
| ID Code: | 33529 |
| Deposited On: | 05 Oct 2018 07:32 |
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