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? :)

Problem statement tweak

preliminary problem statement: How were metaphors used to represent scientific concepts in fictional narratives in children's storybooks with medical themes? (taken from purpose of the study, see picture below)

 

and then, the tweaked problem statement:

Okay. Now that I have defined my problem, i need to define what approach will I use: will it be semiotic? narrative? critical? And then what research design can best answer my problem? Oh yeah let's do this.