An Investigation of Media Influences on Elementary Students Representations of Scientists

Farland-Smith, Donna; Finson, Kevin D.; Boone, William J.; Yale, Melissa S.

doi:10.1007/s10972-012-9322-z

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“…Educational researchers have also used drawings and images to understand beliefs. For example, a long tradition exists of having students draw scientists, from which researchers infer the extent to which students hold stereotypical views about scientists (Chambers, ; Farland‐Smith, Finson, Boone, & Yale, ; Finson, ). This method has been used with young students as well as graduate students (Miele, ).…”

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Preservice Teachers’ Developing Conceptions of Teaching English Learners

Kelly

2017

TESOL Quarterly

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In this study, 12 preservice teachers in a community college English as a second language (ESL) K-12 teacher education program drew pictures and wrote descriptions of teachers teaching English language learners (ELLs) at the beginning and end of an ESL methods course. Using content analysis, the researcher analyzed the drawings and descriptions with respect to the role of the teacher, the role of the students, the teaching strategies shown, the instructional content, and how the drawings changed over the semester. Preservice teachers depicted more and varied teaching strategies in end-of-course drawings, but overall findings showed that preservice teachers viewed teaching ELLs as a teacher implementing direct instruction in basic literacy to passive students at both the beginning and end of the course. The article discusses the importance of impacting preservice teacher beliefs through teacher education and explores the benefits and limits of using drawings for this purpose.

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Preservice Teachers’ Developing Conceptions of Teaching English Learners

Kelly

2017

TESOL Quarterly

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“…There are a number of potential sources of influence that impact learners' development with respect to their science identities and perceptions of scientists. Such sources could include role models, parental influences, school influences, and media (Farland-Smith, Finson, Boone, & Yale, 2014;Steinke et al, 2007). Of these, media were found to have some of the most significant impacts on children's science identities.…”

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“…Textbooks, trade books, and media have clearly been identified as significant influences on students' formative perceptions about who scientists are and who can be a scientist (Farland-Smith, Finson, Boone, & Yale, 2014;Steinke et al, 2007). Picture trade books should include images of both males and females inasmuch it is historically appropriate.…”

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How Picture Books on the National Science Teacher's Association Recommend List Portray Scientists

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Arquette

2017

School Sci & Mathematics

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This study utilized the Draw‐A‐Scientist Test Checklist (DAST‐C) to assess the illustrations of scientists in the most recent three years of NSTA Recommends book lists. A total of 15,778 images were contained in the 148 books from those lists, of which 1,676 were of scientists. ANOVA procedures revealed no significant differences in stereotypical elements across the three years of books. However, three notable stereotypical elements were present in large percentages in books from all years: predominance of male images, non‐minority scientists, and scientists who were not youthful.

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“…Doubts such as these regarding the reliability and validity of the DAST have caused some to disregard it as useful in spite of the desire by many to investigate students' perceptions of the nature of scientists. However, Farland-Smith et al [42] concur there is something to be gained by considering children's illustrations since they have long been accepted as representations of how they view the world. Such pictures or illustrations can convey information about a child's personal science identity.…”

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Mixed Messages for Our Next Generation of Scientists

Farland-Smith¹

2017

The Evolution of Media Communication

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Scientists have been in the media ever since Frankenstein in 1931. Today's youth may not have seen the original movie or read the book, but they have seen cartoon reiterations of the famous classic as the work has inspired numerous ilms, television programs, video games, characters in books and movies. The concept of the "mad scientist" creating a creature, monster, or weapon that eventually falls out of his control, leading to the scientist's eventual defeat or ruin, is a common theme in science-iction and comic books.Draw-A-Scientist protocols have been utilized by science education researchers to investigate learners' perceptions of scientists. This chapter discusses historical perspectives of scientists in the media, the methods for analyzing students' perceptions of scientists and how aspects of their illustrations relate students' perceptions of scientists. The discussion presented here is framed in the context in which young children hold a range of perceptions that are based on cultural inluences, and sometimes these images are limited, and sometimes they compete within the individual. The position of this author is that each of these three are interconnected with the others, support each other, and must be considered along with students' cultural background and science identity if these illustrations are to fulill any promise of its utility for research or instructional purposes.

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An Investigation of Media Influences on Elementary Students Representations of Scientists

Cited by 24 publications

References 13 publications

Preservice Teachers’ Developing Conceptions of Teaching English Learners

Preservice Teachers’ Developing Conceptions of Teaching English Learners

How Picture Books on the National Science Teacher's Association Recommend List Portray Scientists

Mixed Messages for Our Next Generation of Scientists

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