ON THE LINK BETWEEN THE EVERYDAY KNOWLEDGE AND THE SCHOOL KNOWLEDGE IN SCIENCE LEARNING

Abstract

Some present-day issues on barriers to learning at school, such as “school refutal” truancy, may be partly attributed to the fact that for children school knowledge lacks “reality.” In order to give school knowledge some reality, it is recessary to consider its link with everyday knowledge, a type of knowledge which children find some reality in it. The sources with which children construct their knowledge are analyzed as “direct experience,” “everyday experience” and “school knowledge,” which together constitute a mosaic-like knowledge structure. When all these three knowledge sources get linked to each other by way of children’s emotional linking, then school knowlege would acquire some reality, which in tum enable children to establish their identity. In this paper, the forementioned hypotheses are verified in science learning situation.