Science education faces many challenges, not least that of rendering the key propositions into language that children can readily understand. This chapter applies Minimal English to a canonical science education narrative about changing scientific and pre-scientific understandings of the universe. It attempts to capture the key beliefs and mindsets associated with the views of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Galileo, with a look ahead to the possibilities of further advances in scientific thinking about the cosmos.
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Wierzbicka, A. (2017). Talking About the Universe in Minimal English: Teaching Science Through Words That Children Can Understand. In Minimal English for a Global World: Improved Communication Using Fewer Words (pp. 169–200). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62512-6_8
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