FW: earth signs etc

[Ingvild Roald]

SIGNS AND CONCEPTIONS

During my
doctoral work I realized how the choice of sign influences/ is influenced by
the conception of the signer, in my cases children.

 

As
Norwegian Sign Language may use different sign for “Earth”, I saw that the
“flat-earthers” used the sign showing “the whole wide world”, while the
“spherical-earthers” used a ball-shaped sign.

 

Similarly,
those who believed the Sun is spherical and that the sun’s rays are not a
physical part of the sun always used the circle sign for the Sun. Those who
believed that the sun’s rays are physically attached to the sun, used the
“sun-is-shining”-sign

 

Also, the
conception of the shape of the Moon and the choice of sign were connected.

 

These results are published in:

Roald, Ingvild and Mikalsen, Øyvind
(2000) ” What are the Earth and the heavenly bodies like? A study of objectual
conceptions among Norwegian deaf and hearing pupils.” International
Journal of Science Education, 22 (4), 337-355



Ingvild 


The signs are:

Earth (Jorden)  Sun (sol)  Moon (måne)  Planet (planet)  Star (stjerne) Galaxy (galakse)

To: iroald at hotmail.com
Subject: earth signs etc
From: iroald at yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:04:26 -0700



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