In recent years, science education researchers have increasingly studied the ways in which
students “make sense” of science. However, although researchers might all agree intuitively …

Many of the goals of research on conceptual metaphor in science education overlap with the
goals ofresearch on conceptual change. The relevance of a conceptual metaphor …

From the 1970s onward, researchers have tried to understand the content and nature of
student conceptions, how these conceptions can both hinder and contribute to learning, and …

Bu araştırmanın amacı, biyoloji öğretmeni adaylarının mikroskop kavramına ilişkin sahip
oldukları algıları metaforlar yardımıyla belirlemektir. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu biyoloji …

Abstract Language is an important resource for physicists and learners of physics to
construe physical phenomena and processes, and communicate ideas. Moreover, any …

We introduce here a special issue of this journal on the theme of 'Conceptual Metaphor and
Embodied Cognition in Science Learning'. The idea for this issue grew out of a symposium …

Science deals with the world around us, and we understand, experience, and study this
world through and with our bodies. While science educators have started to acknowledge …

In recent years, researchers have become aware of the experiential grounding of scientific
thought. Accordingly, research has shown that metaphorical mappings between experience …

Researchers believe that the way that students talk, specifically the language that they use,
can offer awindow into their reasoning processes. Yet the connection between what …

Background In this paper, we investigate the relationship between theory and design in the
context of creating digital games to support children's development of scientific expertise …