Where does an Inclination towards Science come from? Tracing the Early Beginnings of Exploratory Behavior in Autobiographical Narratives of Researchers in Science and the Humanities. An Interview-based Study of the Biographical Roots and Motivations behin

最近关于科学在吸引年轻人才方面所面临的困难的辩论提出了很多问题。我们如何理解儿童好奇心变得更加详细和具体的教育过程？探索性行为在什么条件下确立并成为自我激励和自我鼓励？该项目的方法将科学家的传记作为典型案例，旨在利用深入访谈和小组讨论重建他们早期对谜题和基于探究的实践的智力兴趣的传记开端。本文的论点是：对科学的倾向的形成是由对感兴趣的对象的私人迷恋驱动的。是什么导致了这种魅力，它是如何出现的？不仅学校的鼓励和正式的成功似乎很重要，而且与家庭和同龄人群体的互动也很重要，通过这种互动，个人的自我认同从对科学问题的认同中演变出来。受访者将被要求提供他们最早对主题感兴趣的知识。他们能记住哪些活动和伴随的情况？采访将与来自七个学科的27名科学家进行，包括物理学，地质学，生物化学，动物行为学以及伊斯兰研究，经济史和社会学。此外，还将与学生和研究生进行小组讨论，比较候选人职业自我认同的各个阶段及其自传体解释模式的发展。

Recent debates about the difficulties facing science in attracting young talent has raised lots of questions. How can we understand educational processes in which children´s curiosity becomes more detailed and concrete? Under which conditions does exploratory behavior establish itself and become self-stimulating and self-encouraging? This project´s approach deals with biographies of scientists as paradigmatic cases with the intention of reconstructing the biographical beginnings of their early intellectual interests in puzzles and inquiry-based practices using in-depth interviews and group discussions. The thesis is: The formation of an inclination towards science is driven by a private fascination with objects of interest. What causes such a fascination individually, how does it emerge? Not only does encouragement and formal success in school seem to be important, but also interactions with family and peer groups, through which a personal self-identity evolves from an identification with scientific matters. Interviewees will be asked for their earliest intellectual interests in subjects. Which activities and attendant circumstances can they remember? The interviews will be conducted with 27 scientists from seven disciplines including Physics, Geology, Biochemistry, Ethology as well as Islamic Studies, Economic History and Sociology. In addition, group discussions with students and postgraduates will be held to compare the successive stages of a candidate´s professional self-identity and the development of their autobiographical interpretative patterns.