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Why Do Secondary School Students Lose Their Interest in Science? Or Does it Never Emerge? A Possible and Overlooked Explanation

Anderhag, Per ; Wickman, Per-Olof ; Bergqvist, Kerstin ; Jakobson, Britt ; Hamza, Karim Mikael ; Säljö, Roger

Science education (Salem, Mass.), 2016, Vol.100 (5), p.791-813 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Why Do Secondary School Students Lose Their Interest in Science? Or Does it Never Emerge? A Possible and Overlooked Explanation
Author: Anderhag, Per ; Wickman, Per-Olof ; Bergqvist, Kerstin ; Jakobson, Britt ; Hamza, Karim Mikael ; Säljö, Roger
Subjects: Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung ; Secondary School ; Interessenentwicklung ; Interessenforschung ; Students ; Science education ; Discourse analysis ; elementary ; Education & Educational Research ; Utbildningsvetenskap ; identity ; work ; Educational Sciences
Is Part Of: Science education (Salem, Mass.), 2016, Vol.100 (5), p.791-813
Description: In this paper, we review research on how students' interest in science changes through the primary to secondary school transition. In the literature, the findings generally show that primary students enjoy science but come to lose interest during secondary school. As this claim is based mainly on interview and questionnaire data, that is on secondary reports from students about their interest in science, these results are reexamined through our own extensive material from primary and secondary school on how interest is constituted through classroom discourse. Our results suggest the possibility that primary students do not lose their interest in science, but rather that an interest in science is never constituted. The overview indicates that studies relying on interviews and questionnaires make it difficult to ascertain what the actual object of interest is when students act in the science classroom. The possibility suggested should, if valid, have consequences for science education and be worthy of further examination.
Publisher: New York: Wiley Periodicals Inc
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1098-237X
ISSN: 0036-8326
EISSN: 1098-237X
DOI: 10.1002/sce.21231
CODEN: SEDUAV

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Why Do Secondary School Students Lose Their Interest in Science? Or Does it Never Emerge? A Possible and Overlooked Explanation

Anderhag, Per ; Wickman, Per-Olof ; Bergqvist, Kerstin ; Jakobson, Britt ; Hamza, Karim Mikael ; Säljö, Roger

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