Saturday, March 10, 2012

Overarching question and subquestions

These are my preliminary main question and subquestions. They are not yet perfect, and are subject to future tweaking. :)

My study aims to answer the problem of how science concepts are represented in metaphors
in children’s picture book stories with health themes? (in order to give insight to how it can be used to promote scientific literacy specifically in health, diseases and the human body among child learners)

This study aims to answer the following subquestions:
1.      What metaphors or analogies were used to describe science concepts in the stories?
2.      What common themes or elements do these metaphors use?
3.      Why are these metaphors used?
4.      What are the relationships between the metaphors and the science concepts?
5.      How are the science concepts being represented using these metaphors?
6.      How do these metaphors help popularize science?

Next stop, lemme answer the deeper question: what on earth am I studying this for? :)

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