The features of norms formed in constructing student-generated drawings to explain physics phenomena

Student-generated drawing is a useful strategy to construct students’ scientific ideas. For exploring ways to support student-generated drawing, we focused on the perspective of ‘Norms’–shared behaviour patterns desirable in a community. We investigated what norms were formed and how they emerged wh...

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Main Authors: Chang, Jina, Park, Joonhyeong, Tang, Kok-Sing, Treagust, David, Won, Mihye
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD 2020
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Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP180100143
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83510
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author Chang, Jina
Park, Joonhyeong
Tang, Kok-Sing
Treagust, David
Won, Mihye
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Park, Joonhyeong
Tang, Kok-Sing
Treagust, David
Won, Mihye
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building Curtin Institutional Repository
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description Student-generated drawing is a useful strategy to construct students’ scientific ideas. For exploring ways to support student-generated drawing, we focused on the perspective of ‘Norms’–shared behaviour patterns desirable in a community. We investigated what norms were formed and how they emerged when students made drawings to explain phenomena. Data were collected from classroom observations, interviews and students’ artefacts from five physics lessons in a primary school gifted programme. The data were analysed based on three essential features of norms: justifiability, sharing and behaviours. Consequently, two main norms were reported with four sub-norms in terms of two processes of drawing: meaning-making and representing. First, to show invisible mechanism, ‘explaining why’ was emphasised as a main norm of the meaning-making process. This norm was shared in classroom discussions and drawings by interacting with two sub-norms that supported students to interpret phenomena with ‘key concepts’ at a ‘particle level’. Second, ‘telling a story visually’ was another main norm of the representing process. This norm was formed with two sub-norms that encouraged students to visualise ideas with ‘their own symbols’ in ways that were ‘easy to understand’. These results indicate that norms can guide desirable directions for students to construct and visualise ideas.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-835102021-12-17T03:03:34Z The features of norms formed in constructing student-generated drawings to explain physics phenomena Chang, Jina Park, Joonhyeong Tang, Kok-Sing Treagust, David Won, Mihye Social Sciences Education & Educational Research Student-generated drawing norms meaning-making representation SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION LEARNING-STRATEGIES SCIENCE MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIONS ARGUMENTATION FRAMEWORK Student-generated drawing is a useful strategy to construct students’ scientific ideas. For exploring ways to support student-generated drawing, we focused on the perspective of ‘Norms’–shared behaviour patterns desirable in a community. We investigated what norms were formed and how they emerged when students made drawings to explain phenomena. Data were collected from classroom observations, interviews and students’ artefacts from five physics lessons in a primary school gifted programme. The data were analysed based on three essential features of norms: justifiability, sharing and behaviours. Consequently, two main norms were reported with four sub-norms in terms of two processes of drawing: meaning-making and representing. First, to show invisible mechanism, ‘explaining why’ was emphasised as a main norm of the meaning-making process. This norm was shared in classroom discussions and drawings by interacting with two sub-norms that supported students to interpret phenomena with ‘key concepts’ at a ‘particle level’. Second, ‘telling a story visually’ was another main norm of the representing process. This norm was formed with two sub-norms that encouraged students to visualise ideas with ‘their own symbols’ in ways that were ‘easy to understand’. These results indicate that norms can guide desirable directions for students to construct and visualise ideas. 2020 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83510 10.1080/09500693.2020.1762138 English http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP180100143 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD fulltext
spellingShingle Social Sciences
Education & Educational Research
Student-generated drawing
norms
meaning-making
representation
SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION
LEARNING-STRATEGIES
SCIENCE
MULTIPLE
REPRESENTATIONS
ARGUMENTATION
FRAMEWORK
Chang, Jina
Park, Joonhyeong
Tang, Kok-Sing
Treagust, David
Won, Mihye
The features of norms formed in constructing student-generated drawings to explain physics phenomena
title The features of norms formed in constructing student-generated drawings to explain physics phenomena
title_full The features of norms formed in constructing student-generated drawings to explain physics phenomena
title_fullStr The features of norms formed in constructing student-generated drawings to explain physics phenomena
title_full_unstemmed The features of norms formed in constructing student-generated drawings to explain physics phenomena
title_short The features of norms formed in constructing student-generated drawings to explain physics phenomena
title_sort features of norms formed in constructing student-generated drawings to explain physics phenomena
topic Social Sciences
Education & Educational Research
Student-generated drawing
norms
meaning-making
representation
SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION
LEARNING-STRATEGIES
SCIENCE
MULTIPLE
REPRESENTATIONS
ARGUMENTATION
FRAMEWORK
url http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP180100143
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83510