Physical Preconception of Primary Education Pupils

Slavica Brkić; Ljiljanka Kvesić; Marina Zubac

doi:10.31686/ijier.vol6.iss5.1027

Authors

Slavica Brkić

University in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ljiljanka Kvesić

University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Marina Zubac

University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol6.iss5.1027

Keywords:

physical ideas, intuitive ideas, research teaching, misconceptions, primary education

Abstract

During their preschool age children discover natural phenomena in their environment. In their consciousness, they form the basic physical concepts based on experience. Their ideas can be right, but they can also be wrong because they take into consideration only what they see and thus, they come up with wrong ideas or misconceptions. At the very beginning of their primary education, teachers of class teaching directly witness their ideas related to basic physical concepts through various subjects: mathematics, natural sciences, art and physical education. Frequently, neither teachers nor their pupils consider these notions, thus their wrong ideas remain firmly rooted and present a barrier to the adoption of the correct physical ideas. Research of basic concepts related to motion, space and time was carried out as part of the workshop Class Teaching Course Open Days at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Education of the University of Mostar. The sample consisted of pupils of primary education of Herzegovina-Neretva and West-Herzegovinian Cantons. It has shown that pupils have the correct ideas about many physical phenomena, but it has also shown the presence of intuitive ideas which are not in accordance with physical ideas and need to be corrected in time

Author Biographies

Slavica Brkić, University in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Faculty of Science and Education
Ljiljanka Kvesić, University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Faculty of Science and Education
Marina Zubac, University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Faculty of Science and Education

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