Social representations and chemical reactions: From explosions to Fukushima

One of the most important structuring concepts that teachers develop in the classroom is the one of chemical change and regarding this, there is abundant literature detailing the difficulties generated by its learning. However, is not usually considered the role played by thesocial representations a...

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Autores principales: Lacolla, L., Villagrá, J.A.M., Valeiras, N.
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spelling todo:paper_0187893X_v24_n3_p309_Lacolla2023-10-03T15:08:50Z Social representations and chemical reactions: From explosions to Fukushima Lacolla, L. Villagrá, J.A.M. Valeiras, N. Chemical reactions Explosions Social representations Teaching One of the most important structuring concepts that teachers develop in the classroom is the one of chemical change and regarding this, there is abundant literature detailing the difficulties generated by its learning. However, is not usually considered the role played by thesocial representations among the possible factors influencing in the construction of this concept by the students. This article shows results of a research that identifies the structure of the Social Representation that common people has about chemical reactions and the way in which this representation flows through communication media. Thus is proposed the need to broaden the investigations about the influence that social representations have in the learning of various scientific concepts at school. © Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_0187893X_v24_n3_p309_Lacolla
institution Universidad de Buenos Aires
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topic Chemical reactions
Explosions
Social representations
Teaching
spellingShingle Chemical reactions
Explosions
Social representations
Teaching
Lacolla, L.
Villagrá, J.A.M.
Valeiras, N.
Social representations and chemical reactions: From explosions to Fukushima
topic_facet Chemical reactions
Explosions
Social representations
Teaching
description One of the most important structuring concepts that teachers develop in the classroom is the one of chemical change and regarding this, there is abundant literature detailing the difficulties generated by its learning. However, is not usually considered the role played by thesocial representations among the possible factors influencing in the construction of this concept by the students. This article shows results of a research that identifies the structure of the Social Representation that common people has about chemical reactions and the way in which this representation flows through communication media. Thus is proposed the need to broaden the investigations about the influence that social representations have in the learning of various scientific concepts at school. © Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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author Lacolla, L.
Villagrá, J.A.M.
Valeiras, N.
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Valeiras, N.
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title Social representations and chemical reactions: From explosions to Fukushima
title_short Social representations and chemical reactions: From explosions to Fukushima
title_full Social representations and chemical reactions: From explosions to Fukushima
title_fullStr Social representations and chemical reactions: From explosions to Fukushima
title_full_unstemmed Social representations and chemical reactions: From explosions to Fukushima
title_sort social representations and chemical reactions: from explosions to fukushima
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