Schoolchildren’s Concept of “Flower”:A Case Study of a Second Year of Elementary School

• Main Authors: Shu-Nu Lu, 呂淑女
• Other Authors: Ching-Tsai Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16988130205687689951

碩士 === 國立嘉義大學 === 國民教育研究所 === 91 === Abstract This probative research is mainly to describe the second year child’s concept of flowers. The fundamental issues of this study are radical constructivism of learning theory and scheme of psychology by the interview of teaching to collect data. In accordance with the protocols transcribed from interview video-tapes, we focus on analyzing Chia-chia’s（pseudo name）concept of flowers。 According to the analysis, Chia-chia’s concept of flowers is characterized by the following traits. 1. Petals are the main part noticed in identifying, classifying, and representing flowers. 2. Shape, rather than color, is the important clues while identifying and classifying flowers. 3. By the way of substantial comparison to identify and classify flowers. 4. Symbolized flowers are not necessary to correspond to the real ones. 5. The structure of a flower is that there must have petals and flower stalk. 6. There is no problem to understand a single flower’s structure, but to tell the structure from two different shape flowers is hard. 7. The cognition of a flower is formed by accumulated experiences. 8. Can not handle the function from flowers to plants. 9. The method of exploring belongs to the activating stage－visual capture. Researcher’s self-evaluations on the analyses of documents, ways of research, practice of teaching interview, design of interview questions, data collecting and analytical discussion are included in chapter of conclusion. Researcher also proposes suggestions on research problems, curriculum scheduling, teaching process, and evaluations.