Several variables associated with motivation toward science learning in preservice elementary teachers, such as relevance to personal goals and self‐efficacy, are important factors in preservice preparation. The main objective is to analyze the relationships of these motivational variables with the emotions of boredom and enjoyment, and with engagement in science learning. Data were obtained with a self‐report questionnaire completed by 871 preservice elementary teachers and analyzed using the structural equation model (SEM) methodology. The first step determined the adequacy of the measurement model and, in the second step, SEM showed that the variables associated with motivation for science learning significantly predicted the variance of boredom and enjoyment as 27% and 52%, respectively. The variables associated with motivation for science learning and emotions explained 67% of the variance in science learning engagement. Relevance to personal goals and self‐efficacy in science learning predicted the emotional variables. Emotional variables mediated the impact of motivational variables in science‐learning engagement. The fundamental role of emotions in motivation and science‐learning engagement in preservice elementary teachers is observed.
Resumen: Parece conveniente una mayor colaboración entre la línea de trabajo de comprensión pública de la Ciencia y la de alfabetización científica. La comprensión pública de la Ciencia, orientándose hacia una visión mucho más amplia y participativa de la ciudadanía como agente y sujeto activo en el papel desempeñado por la Ciencia en la sociedad. La alfabetización científica, haciendo progresar la educación científica desde estar orientada básicamente a formar futuros titulados universitarios científicos e tecnólogos, a que al menos la enseñanza obligatoria se centre en la formación científica básica de la ciudadanía, para que sea útil en la vida actual y futura del conjunto de la población.Palabras clave: comprensión pública de la Ciencia, alfabetización científica.
About desirable relation between public understanding of science and scientific literacyAbstract: It seems convenient a bigger collaboration between public understanding of Science and scientific literacy. The public understanding of the Science, being guided toward a vision much wider and more participant of the citizenship like agent and active fellow in the paper to play for the Science in the society. The scientific literacy, making progress the scientific education from being guided basically to form futures titled scientific university students and technologists to that at least the obligatory teaching is centered in the basic scientific formation of the citizenship, so that it is useful in the current and future life of the population's group.
The authors examined students' preconceptions about environmental problems in cities, particularly that of urban disposable waste. They found that students' ideas were dominated by what they perceived, without regard to existing interactions, and that students were unaware of the fundamental role of reuse and recycling in the solution of the disposal of solid urban wastes.
This article provides a vision of school disciplinary strategies as provided by childhood school memories of practicing or unemployed teachers. This narrative approach allows us to understand the school and its daily routines and rituals from an insiders' point of view, drawing upon the double perspective teachers employ when reflecting on their own experience as school children. The results of the study demonstrate a wide range of disciplinary practices coinciding with a Foucauldian disciplinary structure -a system of micro-penalty governing time, activity, behavior, speech, the body, and sexuality. Analyzing the systemic regulation of bodies in schools can uncover institutional meanings and make them available for questioning, perhaps even negotiation. Recognizing the ways in which teachers' roles are inextricably bound with the disciplinary power relations of their institutions can help alleviate frustration and burnout and help teachers make more informed pedagogical decisions.
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