How choosing science depends on students’ individual fit to ‘science culture’
Abstract: In this paper we propose that the unpopularity of science in many industrialized countries is largely due to the gap between the subculture of science, on the one hand, and students’ self-image, on the other hand. We conducted a study based on the self-to-prototype matching theory (Burke & Reitzes, 1981), testing whether the perceived mismatch between the typical representative of the science culture (the science prototype) and students’ self-image is linked to not choosing science as a major. Fifty-four Dutch 9th-grade students currently choosing their subject majors (so-called profiles) completed a Dutch version of a questionnaire previously designed by Hannover and Kessels (2004), which measures students’ perceptions of typical peers favouring different school subjects (prototypes for physics, biology, economics, languages) and students’ self-image. Students chose a profile to the extent that they conceived of themselves as similar to the typical peer who likes the key subject o
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: International Journal of Science Education ; 31 (2009) 8 ; 1115-1132
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Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2009
- Creator
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Taconis, Ruurd
Kessels, Ursula
- DOI
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10.1080/09500690802050876
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-134347
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Taconis, Ruurd
- Kessels, Ursula
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- 2009
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