Using Concept Cartoons © for Modification of Pupil´s Ideas about Natural Phenomena. Cover Image

Využitie metódy concept cartoons© pri modifikácii žiackych predstáv o prírodných javoch.
Using Concept Cartoons © for Modification of Pupil´s Ideas about Natural Phenomena.

Author(s): Michaela Minarechová
Subject(s): Education, Visual Arts, School education, Educational Psychology
Published by: Slovenská pedagogická spoločnosť pri SAV
Keywords: concept cartoons©; younger school age; preconceptions; natural phenomena;

Summary/Abstract: Concept cartoons © is an innovative educational as well as diagnostic method based on the constructivist approach to science education. We find many studies dealing with this method and its widespread use in the classroom in foreign sources. However, method concept cartoons © is not too well known and widespread in Slovakia. In our study, we focus on issues with the method concept cartoons © as in its didactic as well as research applications. The purpose of our study is to identify children's naive ideas about selected natural phenomena by the pretest. In the next part of research we will apply method of concept cartoons© and try to find out its functionality and educational potential.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 137-159
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Slovak