Parent-child conversations about evolution in the context of an interactive museum display
Parent-child conversations about evolution in the context of an interactive museum display
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互动博物馆展示中亲子关于进化论的对话
DOI：
10.1007/s11409-016-9153-y
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发表时间：
2012
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通讯作者：
I. Checa
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作者：
Andrew Shtulman;I. Checa
自然选择的进化理论已经彻底改变了生物科学，但对公众来说仍然是困惑和有争议的。这项研究探讨了一个特定的部分公众-参观自然历史博物馆-的原因有关进化的背景下，一个互动的分支图，或进化树。参与者是49名4至12岁的儿童和一名陪同父母。他们一起完成了五项活动，使用触摸屏显示19个哺乳动物目之间的系统发育关系。在整个活动中，参与者揭示了与大学本科生在以前的研究中揭示的类似的误解。然而，这些误解的频率被父母的参与程度，特别是父母和孩子之间的轮流频率所削弱。总的来说，这些研究结果表明，进化推理可能会得到改善的互动博物馆显示，只要这些显示器的启示鼓励多用户互动所培养的合作讨论的种类。
The theory of evolution by natural selection has revolutionized the biological sciences yet remains confusing and controversial to the public at large. This study explored how a particular segment of the public – visitors to a natural history museum – reason about evolution in the context of an interactive cladogram, or evolutionary tree. The participants were 49 children aged four to twelve and one accompanying parent. Together, they completed five activities using a touch-screen display of the phylogenetic relations among the 19 orders of mammals. Across activities, participants revealed similar misconceptions to those revealed by college undergraduates in previous studies. However, the frequency of those misconceptions was attenuated by the level of parental engagement, particularly the frequency of turn-taking between parents and children. Overall, these findings suggest that evolutionary reasoning may be improved by the kinds of collaborative discussions fostered by interactive museum displays, so long as the affordances of those displays encourage multi-user interactions.