SCIENCE TEACHING AND THE SCHOOL - WHEN CONCEPTS MEET CONTEXT

With this paper we want to discuss possibilities and problems for pupils to learn science. Ex¬ploratory studies have been carried in science classrooms. The science lesson exists in a context of its own but classroom interaction re¬veals parallel discourses and many research studies show that pupils have great difficulties to move from an eve¬ryday discourse into a science discourse and to acquire the spe-cial language of science and the special ways of seeing the world.