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Construction of Scientific Knowledge Through Scientific Language

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Author

Jan, Tayib

Department

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

Program

MEd

Institute

Aga Khan University

Institute Type

Private

City

Karachi

Province

Sindh

Country

Pakistan

Thesis Completing Year

2003

Thesis Completion Status

Completed

Subject

Education

Language

English

Added

2021-02-17 19:49:13

Modified

2024-03-24 20:25:49

ARI ID

1676727888995

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Science Education has been emphasized as a major contributor to the industrial and technological development, for the last many decades, in Pakistan. A lot of effort has been made to build and equip laboratories with the hope that the materials provided here would be helpful in constructing students' scientific knowledge. On the one hand, due to the economic conditions of the country we have not been able to provide enough laboratory buildings and materials to the schools. On the other hand, the teachers have not been able to employ strategies to make the practical and theoretical work coherent. Practicals are performed after unconnectedly attending lectures in the classroom. The students are unable to find connection between the two by themselves. Therefore, practical work remain just for fun and a way to escape from the lectures in the classroom. The teachers' consider finishing the syllabus as their foremost professional obligation, which puts undue pressure on merely teaching the content in the science classroom. The teachers teach only the content and assume that the students will catch the language of science by themselves. When they are unable to do so it is declared that they are not bright enough or they do not work hard. The trend results in alienating students from the discipline. Even though some students achieve good marks, they are not able to develop the kind of understanding that is required in think and act like scientists. The data from this study illustrate how scientific language can be used to help students in constructing scientific knowledge. The study helps in understanding science as a dynamic process connected to a cultural and social context. Looking at science in this perspective of its tentativeness gives room for scientific language through which theories are refuted, challenged, critiqued and evaluated in the classroom. The study looks at different strategies the teachers employ in teaching science in the classroom and based on these findings suggest some strategies to science teachers to reconceptulize science education in the country. The point worth noting here is that we follow English as a medium of instruction without actually realizing, how much it contributes to the development of students' scientific understanding. The purpose behind this study was to have as intrinsic understanding of the role of scientific language in constructing students' scientific knowledge. Although the focus of the study was not to give recommendations for AKU-IED and PDC for
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Effect of Electrolyte Anions on the Sorption Properties of Managanese Dioxide

Manganese oxides are important scavengers of trace metals like Pb, Cu, Co, Ni, Zn, Cr and other contaminants in natural environments because of their ubiquitous presence in clays, soils and sediments. They have high surface area and strong affinity for many elements, thus their surfaces mediates the fate and transport of metallic ions and their compounds in many natural systems. Although the concentration of manganese oxides in soil and sediments is less than the oxides of iron and aluminum, yet, their effective surface charges, enable them to effectively alter the distribution of trace metals in soils, sediments and natural water systems by adsorption/ion exchange mechanism. Being a model adsorbent many researchers have focused on the sorption properties of manganese oxide not only due to its importance in soil and sediments, but also due to its applications in too many industrial processes. 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Manganese oxide (Pyrolusite), purchased from Merck, has been characterized for Surface Area, Point of Zero Charge ( pHpzc), XRD, TG-DTA, TEM, SEM, EDX, XPS, Particle Size Measurement and FTIR analyses. ii Its BET Surface area is 83.5 m 2 /g withaverage pore width and micropore volume of 142.2 Å and 0.07 cm 3 respectively, which indicate the mesoporous nature of the solid. The point of zero charge of solid is 8.8, which decreases with phosphate treatment to 6.2 by increasing the concentration of phosphate from 0.001 to 0.1M, due to the formation of inner sphere complexes at the surface of the solid. The XRD analysis shows that the solid is crystalline in nature. TEM and SEM images also confirm the solid to be crystalline having nanorod-like structure with an average width of 0.64±0.2 μm and particle length between 0.91 to 2.960 μm suggesting the particle size diversity of the sample. TG-DTA analyses reveal that the solid is stable in the temperature range of 30-600 o C, while above 600 o C, MnO 2 changes into Mn 2 O 3 . Dissolution study of manganese dioxide in the presence of different electrolyte anions suggests that the solid is stable in the pH range 4-7. Its dissolution is maximum at pH3 and decreases with increasing the pH of the aqueous system. Further, at each pH value, dissolution of the solid is less in the presence of phosphate as compared to nitrate and sulphate anions, indicating the hydrolytic stability that phosphate anions impart to the solid via surface complexation reactions. Metal ions sorption studies onto manganese oxide, as a function of pH, temperature and phosphate concentration, suggest that sorption of all the metal ions increases with increasing pH, temperature and phosphate anions treatment as compared to nitrate. This trend of metal ions sorption is due to the fact that phosphate anion shifts the pH edges to lower pH values and hence, sorption of Cu and Pb in phosphate starts even at the lowest pH value of 3. Similarly, increase in temperature also increases the sorption capacity of the solid by creating new sites and increasing the mobility of the ions at the solid-liquid interface. It has been observed that the sorption of metals in nitrate follow the order; Cu2 + >Co 2+ > Pb 2+ >Cd 2+ , which changes into Pb 2+ > Cu 2+ >Co 2+ > Cd 2+ in the presence of phosphate. Langmuir equation shows the appropriate applicability to describe the sorption data and the constant X m increases with increase in pH and temperature showing the endothermic nature iiiof the sorption process. Similarly, the sorption of each metal cation in the presence of phosphate increases at each pH value which suggests that phosphate anions facilitate the sorption of these cations at each pH unit. From the Langmuir’s binding energy constant, the respective thermodynamic parameters including DH o , DS o and DG o have been derived. The values of ΔH o for Cu 2+ and Cd 2+ ions sorption are negative at lower pH and become positive at pH5 and 6 in the presence of phosphate anions. This shift from negative to positive values points toward the change in sorption mechanism from ligand-like complexes at low pH values to metal-like complexes or metal phosphate precipitation at higher pH values. Similarly, the negative values of ΔG o indicate the spontaneous nature of the sorption reactions. Desorption studies have also been conducted for Pb 2+ , Cu 2+ , and Cd 2+ ions in the presence of different electrolytes in the range 293-323 K. The desorption of metal ions in nitrate and sulphate has been observed to follow the order; Co 2+ >Cd 2+ >Cu 2+ >Pb 2+ . However, the desorption of these metal in phosphate are very low due to the stability of lead phosphate precipitates formed at the MnO 2 surface. In the present study the sorption kinetics of Cd 2+ has also been evaluated at pH 6 in the temperature range 293 -323K. This kinetic data suggest that sorption of Cd 2+ ion increases with contact time and temperature and the system attained equilibrium within 60 min in the presence of nitrate. However, equilibrium time is shifted to 90 min in the presence of phosphate anions. The rate constant k and initial sorption rate h calculated from pseudo second order kinetics model increase with increasing temperature and phosphate treatment. The thermodynamic activation parameters such as activation energy Ea, DH ‡ , DG ‡ and DS ‡ show that the sorption process is endothermic and nonspontaneous, with a decreased free energy of activation, being 15.95 kJ.mol -1 in nitrate and 8.76 kJ.mol -1 in phosphate anions. These low ivvalues of activation energies in both the cases suggest diffusionally controlled uptake of the metal ions by ion exchange or ligand like mechanism. Microscopic and spectroscopic analyses reveal the formation of a new phase in the form of metal phosphate precipitates at higher pH values while formation of ligand like complexes at low pH values. SEM and TEM images demonstrate the appearance of new homogenous solid phase along with the nonorod like structure of manganese oxide particles while EDX spectra shows some additional peaks for metal ions and phosphate after metal ions sorption. FTIR studies shows some changes in the frequencies and intensities of the –OH group vibrations after phosphate anions sorption. The appearance of peaks at 1740 and 2904 cm -1 are far mono and dibasic orthophosphate respectively. The manganese oxide after metal ions sorption in the presence of phosphate also shows a decrease in the intensities of the bands at 740 and 1116 cm -1 while the broad band at 1315 cm -1 disappears completely pointing toward the formation of ligand like metal complexes at the surface of the solid. These observation provide a strong evidence that the local environment of -OH groups present at the surface of manganese oxide changes with the amount of metal ions incorporation and thus are responsible for metal ions uptake from solution. The XPS shows that the positions of Mn2p and O1s of the manganese oxide remain the same after metal ions sorption. However, various photoelectron peaks after metal ions incorporation at different binding energy appears, like 138.3 eV and 143.8 eV for lead, and 137 eV and 142.1 eV for phosphate, which confirm the mechanism of the ligand like metal complexes and formation of different types of lead phosphate precipitates on the surface of manganese oxide." xml:lang="en_US