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Engaging Students in Science: The Potential

Role of “Narrative Thinking” and “Romantic


Understanding”

Jan David B. Paragas


Teacher I
Leet Elementary School
Santa Barbara II, Pangasinan I

Science has always been difficult for However, teaching science presents a
instructors and students to teach and learn in the difficult task for educators because, apart from
classroom. On the one hand, students find it giving students the chance to develop scientific
difficult to comprehend science (as content, understanding, they also need to primarily engage
inquiry, and process skills) since it requires a and motivate students with science, its concepts,
construction process that is time-consuming, equations, laws, and laboratory skills. For it is
labor-intensive, complex, and iterative rather than evident that comprehension cannot genuinely
linear. occur without some kind of interaction. The initial
Constructivist-oriented research conducted engagement with science appears to be a
in the 1980s and 1990s demonstrated an important prerequisite for understanding and long-term
implication of this construction process: students learning, even though a certain level of
can construct alternative ideas that deviate from understanding may very well inspire children to
the canonical scientific ideas, in addition to a learn. Furthermore, it goes without saying that
conceptual framework that lacks the coherence of student motivation to learn does not equate to a
true scientific knowledge. Additional implications grasp of science, particularly science subject.
that were found include the fact that a number of Therefore, one could very well speak of a
interrelated factors, including students' preexisting dual difficulty when it comes to science
ideas about the nature of science, their motivation instruction in schools: how can pupils be involved
and interest, the classroom culture, the with the subject matter while simultaneously
opportunities for social interaction, dialogue, and creating the possibility of actual scientific
argumentation, the creation of representations (for understanding? By concentrating on the potential
the use of modeling and analogies), the chance for of two concepts, "narrative thinking" and
cognitive dissonance and conceptual change, and "romantic understanding," there are two ways to
the ability to apply new knowledge to new engage with science content learning. However,
situations, all have an impact on the construction let's first examine the engagement problem, which
process. is essential to both the teaching and learning
process and the understanding of science.
Engaging Students in Science: The Potential Role of “Narrative Thinking” and “Romantic
Understanding” Jan david B. Paragas Teacher I Leet Elementary School Santa Barbara II, Pangasinan I
Science has always been difficult for instructors and students to teach and learn in the classroom. On
the one hand, students find it difficult to comprehend science (as content, inquiry, and process skills)
since it requires a construction process that is time-consuming, labor-intensive, complex, and iterative
rather than linear. Constructivist-oriented research conducted in the 1980s and 1990s demonstrated an
important implication of this construction process: students can construct alternative ideas that deviate
from the canonical scientific ideas, in addition to... (only first 800 chars shown)

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