• 作者： 陳世輝,古智雄
• 作者服務機構： Department of Mathematics and Science Education National Hualien Teachers College Hualien, Taiwan, R.O.C.
• 中文摘要： This study examined aboriginal children's conceptions of animals and animal classification. Thirty-six students were selected from the 2nd, 4th, and 6th grades of two elementary schools in Hualien. A clinical interview and a classification task, involving the sorting of pictures of animals into major classes, were administered. The results indicated four forms of classification thinking: (a)living; (b)non-living; (c)animal, with scientifically acceptable attributes; and (d)animal, with scientifically unacceptable attributes. Children in all grades usually used a combination of the last two forms. Movement and eating were the most commonly used attributes for identifying animals. The label "animal" was usually applied to large, terrestrial mammals found in zoos or in the jungle. Humans were not categorized as animals by a substantial number of children, particularly in the lower grades. Although some of those in the higher grades were aware that humans were animals, the reasons given were irrelevant to animal attributes and improperly derived from the biological concept of "evolution" It was also found that the children's understanding of biological classification was generally poor. Even when the children could classify an animal instance as a subset of "animal" correctly, they still tended to consider it as a "non-animal" set. It seems that the children considered the subsets of animals as comparable sets to the set of animals.
• 英文摘要： --
• 中文關鍵字： aborigines, animal, conceptions of animals, classification
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