Title:
Semiotic approaches in science didactics
Author:
Houdement, Catherine, author.
ISBN:
9781394173778
9781394173792
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Series:
Sciences : education and training - didactics
General Note:
3.3.1. The text: a favorable space for scholarly pronouncements
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. A Study of the Dynamics of the Development of Scientific Knowledge: Semiotic Opportunities -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Chapter 1. A Walk in Semiotics and Mathematics -- 1.1. A glance at semiotics -- 1.1.1. Ferdinand de Saussure -- 1.1.2. Charles Sanders Peirce -- 1.2. At the heart of mathematics, the symbolic -- 1.2.1. The epistemological life of the mathematical signs + and = -- 1.2.2. The evolution of signs, a driver for the invention of mathematics -- 1.3. The life of a basic sign in contexts
1.3.1. The = sign in a teaching context -- 1.3.2. The = sign in society -- 1.4. Semiotics and questions of teaching -- 1.4.1. Duval's approach on semiotics and mathematics -- 1.4.2. Semiotics and geometry -- 1.4.3. Semiotics and numbers -- 1.4.4. And language in all this? -- 1.5. Conclusion -- 1.6. Appendix: the mystery writing in Figure 1.1 -- 1.7. References -- Chapter 2. Semiotic Systems Specific to Chemistry and Their Learning -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The specific signs of chemistry -- 2.2.1. Diversity of chemical signs presented to students
2.2.2. A consideration of chemical signs using the "chemistry triplet" -- 2.2.3. Beyond the chemistry triplet -- 2.3. Didactical analysis framework: domains of knowledge in chemistry -- 2.3.1. The empirical register -- 2.3.2. The register of models -- 2.3.3. The communication of knowledge -- 2.4. Semiotic supports -- 2.4.1. Triadic semiotic relationship -- 2.4.2. Relation between the sign and the represented object -- 2.4.3. The meaning of a semiotic representation through the prism of its belonging to a semiotic system -- 2.4.4. Semiotic systems and cognitive activities
2.5. The challenges of learning some chemical signs -- 2.5.1. Chemical formulae and names -- 2.5.2. Spatial representations of molecules -- 2.5.3. Summary -- 2.6. Students' understanding of names and formulae -- 2.6.1. A single sign for two objects: students' difficulties -- 2.6.2. Interpretation by students of a molecular formula depending on the context -- 2.6.3. Summary -- 2.7. Students' understanding of stereochemical formulae -- 2.7.1. Exploration of the cognitive function behind processing -- 2.7.2. Exploration of the cognitive function used in conversion between systems -- 2.7.3. Summary
2.8. Conclusion -- 2.9. References -- Part 2. The Semiotic Approach: Toward the Invention of New Forms of Didactic Intervention -- Introduction to Part 2 -- Chapter 3. Scientific Knowledge at the Mercy of the "BD" Comic Strip -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Science in comic strips: semiotic analysis of some strips by apprentice-authors -- 3.2.1. A device for scientific mediation: "BD-sciences" workshops -- 3.2.2. Science in the apprentice-authors' strips: where? how? why? -- 3.3. Science in science comics for the "wider public": some narrative-visual invariants
Abstract:
The sciences are, in essence, highly semiotized. Our ways of thinking and communicating about science are based on permanent transformations from one system of signs to another, such as scriptural, graphic, symbolic, oral and gestural signs. The semiotic focus studied in this book makes it possible to grasp part of the complexity of teaching and learning phenomena by focusing on the variety of possible interpretations of the signs that circulate within the science classroom. Semiotic Approaches in Science Didactics brings together contributions from didactic research involving various disciplines such as mathematics, chemistry, physics and geography, which mobilize different types of semiotic support. It offers the key to understanding and even reducing some of the misunderstandings that can arise between a speaker and a receiver in scientific teaching situations.
Local Note:
John Wiley and Sons
Electronic Access:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781394173792Copies:
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