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Beliefs that manifest through newspaper items in relation to peoples’ life challenges and their potential to enhance a sustainable learning environment in school science
- Source :
- The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, Vol 9, Iss 3 (2013)
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- AOSIS, 2013.
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Abstract
- The paper documents beliefs that manifest themselves through newspaper items and elaborates on their potential to enhance a sustainable learning environment in a school science lesson. “Learning environment” is depicted from different angles and includes virtual and real learning environments, school environments and classroom environments. Descriptive and item analyses were conducted on sixty-eight newspaper items that were identified. The nature of problems and prescriptions/solutions was categorised for each item and the paper further provides elaboration on the types of problems and recommended solutions. The results show that the “believed” structure contents in their newspaper items to catch the attention of the “believer”. Lessons on the power of belief must be learnt by school science teachers if they are to succeed in creating a sustainable learning environment with improved performance in school science.
- Subjects :
- belief
belief models
teaching
explanations
Science
Social Sciences
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18174434 and 24152005
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.1fe3664edfa64bd69797af5bf7c5bfb9
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4102/td.v9i3.199