Observing and drawing the sun: research-based insights to assess science communication practices aimed at children

• Autor(a) principal: Anjos, Sara
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Aibéo, Alexandre, Carvalho, Anabela
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/62995
• topic: Informal learning; Representations of science and technology; Visual communication; Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Comunicação; Social Sciences

Knowing how specific publics understand and experience science is crucial for both researchers and practitioners. As learning and meaning-making develop over time, depending on a combination of factors, creative possibilities to analyze those processes are needed to improve evaluation of science communication practices. We examine how first grade children’s drawings expressed their perceptions of the Sun and explore their views of a major astronomical body within their social, cultural and personal worlds. We then examine how the observation of the Sun through a telescope led to changes in graphical representations, and how learning and meaning evolved after several months.