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dc.contributor.advisorOgunniyi, Meshach B.
dc.contributor.authorMoyo, Partson Virira
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-01T07:25:58Z
dc.date.available2014-10-01T07:25:58Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11394/3745
dc.descriptionPhilosophiae Doctor - PhDen_US
dc.description.abstractThe basic premise of this study was that when a learner is confronted with two contradictory explanations of the same phenomenon, there is cognitive dissonance in the learner as the learner tries to determine which of the two explanations is correct. An argumentation-based instructional intervention programme (ABIIP) was created for and used on and by the Grade 10 learners in order to attempt to ameliorate this cognitive conflict. The purpose of this study was to determine the relative impact of that intervention programme on Grade 10 learners’ conceptions of lightning and thunder. The programme was designed to help learners to develop argumentative skills and use the acquired skills to negotiate and harmonise divergent and conflicting explanations of the nature of lightning and thunder that are propounded by different worldviews (Science and indigenous knowledge).en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectArgumentationen_US
dc.subjectArgumentation instructional programmeen_US
dc.subjectGrade 10 learnersen_US
dc.subjectSchool scienceen_US
dc.subjectWestern modern scienceen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectToulmin’s argumentation patternen_US
dc.subjectContiguity argumentation theoryen_US
dc.subjectConceptions of lightning and thunderen_US
dc.subjectScience-indigenous knowledge curriculumen_US
dc.titleThe relative impact of an argumentation-based instructional intervention programme on grade 10 learners’ conceptions of lightning and thunderen_US
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