Study on the cancer’s representations from primary school pupils and their filing systems

Proceedings of the 6th edition of the New Perspectives in Science Education Conference, Florence, March 16,-17, 2017; International audience; Representation is an act of thought through which a subject relates to an object. There is no representation without an object. In order to comprehend the representation’s content, it is thus necessary to emphasize on the components from the representations which scientific information belongs to and that is of great interest for us on this study on cancer.This study aims to identify the cancer’s representations that 10 years old pupils possess (in Year 5). The variable taken into account in this study is the knowledge of cancer these young pupils hav…