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RESEARCH PAPER
Pre-service teachers’ ideas about obtaining electricity in nuclear power stations in a role play context
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Department of Science Education, University of Malaga, Malaga, SPAIN
Publication date: 2022-10-06
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2022;18(11):em2176
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
This study examined whether participation in a role play on the socio-scientific issue of the use of
nuclear power had an impact on pre-service primary teachers’ ideas regarding the process of
obtaining electricity in a nuclear power station. Before and after the role play, 78 pre-service
primary teachers were asked to describe this process to analyze the ideas they displayed about
the stages involved in it. The results showed, overall, an increased presence of more scientifically
informed ideas in some of these stages following the role play, although a number of non-scientifically informed ideas persisted, for example, regarding the way in which heat is obtained
or the final transformation of energy into electricity. These results support the potential value of
role play for developing more scientifically informed ideas, although some modifications of the
role play are recommended for further development of them.
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