Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 10, Issue 1, Article 3 (June, 2009) Carl-Johan RUNDGREN & Richard HIRSCH & Lena A. E. TIBELL Death of metaphors in life science? - A study of upper secondary and tertiary students’ use of metaphors in their meaning-making of scientific content Previous Contents Next

The Empirical Study

The aim of the study was to investigate how the use of metaphors develops while students learn a specific content area, protein function. The study investigated how students reason around a set of visualizations of protein function and focused on the following research questions.

• How do students use metaphors in learning about protein function?
• Do student uses of metaphors change while learning about protein function from upper secondary to tertiary level?

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