Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Διδακτική της ΧημείαςLibrary of the School of Science
Supervisors info:
Αικατερίνη Πασχαλίδου, Μέλος Ε.ΔΙ.Π., τμήμα Χημείας, ΕΚΠΑ
Κωνσταντίνος Μεθενίτης, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, τμήμα Χημείας, ΕΚΠΑ
Χρύσα Τζουγκράκη, Ομότιμη Καθηγήτρια, τμήμα Χημείας, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Ανάλυση οπτικών αναπαραστάσεων εργαστηριακών πρακτικών ελληνικών σχολικών εγχειριδίων Χημείας δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης του 20ού αιώνα
Translated title:
Analysis of visual representations of laboratory practices in Greek secondary school chemistry textbooks of the 20th century
Summary:
In this master's thesis, the visual representations of laboratory practices contained in Greek school textbooks of the 20th century are analysed in terms of their content and type as well as their relationship to the History and evolution of Chemistry.
Information obtained from literature review about the history of laboratory practices and the analysis of visual representations is used. The method applied for analyzing and categorizing representations based on content, function, relationship to the text, and their connection to historical references to the text is then presented. Representations, which constitute the first chronological appearance, in school textbooks, of historically important laboratory discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries, are also identified, and the time distance between discovery and adaptation in school textbooks is calculated.
From the analysis of the sample and the processing of the results, a predominance of interpretive representations emerges, while at the same time the representations concerning the History and the evolution of Chemistry hold a very small percentage. Finally, the time gaps between the discovery of laboratory practices and their appearance in Greek school textbooks state that the images focus on discoveries of the past and not on modern ones.
Main subject category:
Science
Keywords:
analysis, textbooks, visual representations, laboratory practices, History of Chemistry
Number of references:
130
