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Education in the Field Influences Children’s Ideas and Interest toward Science

Authors: Kristina Zoldosova, Pavol Prokop

Published in: Journal of Science Education and Technology | Issue 3-4/2006

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This paper explores the idea of informal science education in scientific field laboratory (The Science Field Centre). The experimental group of pupils (N = 153) was experienced with approximately 5-day lasting field trips and experiments in the Field Centre in Slovakia. After finishing the course, two different research methods were used to discover their interest and ideas toward science. Pupils from the experimental group showed significant differences from those that did not experience education in the Field Centre (control group, N = 365). In comparison to the control group, pupils of the experimental group highly preferred book titles that were related to their program in the Field Centre. There were differences between the drawings of ideal school environment from both pupils groups. In the drawings of the experimental group, we found significantly more items connected with the educational environment of the Field Centre (e.g. laboratory equipment, live animals). We suppose field science education would be one of the most effective ways to increase interest of pupils to study science and to invaluable intrinsic motivation at the expense extrinsic motivation.

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Title: Education in the Field Influences Children’s Ideas and Interest toward Science
Authors: Kristina Zoldosova
Pavol Prokop
Publication date: 01-10-2006
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published in: Journal of Science Education and Technology / Issue 3-4/2006
Print ISSN: 1059-0145
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1839
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-006-9017-3

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