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Book Synopsis Dilemmas of Science Teaching by : John Wallace
Download or read book Dilemmas of Science Teaching written by John Wallace and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores sixteen contemporary issues in science education by examining the practical dilemmas these issues provoke for teachers. It is a unique book which presents student-teachers with personal and professional insights into a whole range of science topics including the laws of science, teaching ethics, laboratories and culture, gender and ethnicity. Each chapter takes as its focus one of the sixteen issues and begins with a case-study of a science lesson written by a practising teacher. This is followed by a short, reflective piece by the same teacher on how the lesson went and how opportunities for teaching and learning could be improved. This reflection is followed by commentaries from some of the world's leading science educators on what they felt were the strengths and weaknesses of the lesson. The extensive use of teacher-written case studies and commentaries will make this book suitable for the pre-service courses, where case methods are typically used to provide a context for learning the craft of teaching. The addition of commentaries from distinguished scholars makes the book relevant for postgraduate courses in science education and as a reference volume for teacher researchers.
Book Synopsis Dilemmas of Science Teaching by : John Wallace
Download or read book Dilemmas of Science Teaching written by John Wallace and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the use of case studies and commentaries by senior scholars in the field, this unique book provides student-teachers with personal and professional insights into some key science education 'dilemmas'.
Book Synopsis Issues and Challenges in Science Education Research by : Kim Chwee Daniel Tan
Download or read book Issues and Challenges in Science Education Research written by Kim Chwee Daniel Tan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary society, science constitutes a significant part of human life in that it impacts on how people experience and understand the world and themselves. The rapid advances in science and technology, newly established societal and cultural norms and values, and changes in the climate and environment, as well as, the depletion of natural resources all greatly impact the lives of children and youths, and hence their ways of learning, viewing the world, experiencing phenomena around them and interacting with others. These changes challenge science educators to rethink the epistemology and pedagogy in science classrooms today as the practice of science education needs to be proactive and relevant to students and prepare them for life in the present and in the future. Featuring contributions from highly experienced and celebrated science educators, as well as research perspectives from Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia, this book addresses theoretical and practical examples in science education that, on the one hand, plays a key role in our understanding of the world, and yet, paradoxically, now acknowledges a growing number of uncertainties of knowledge about the world. The material is in four sections that cover the learning and teaching of science from science literacy to multiple representations; science teacher education; the use of innovations and new technologies in science teaching and learning; and science learning in informal settings including outdoor environmental learning activities. Acknowledging the issues and challenges in science education, this book hopes to generate collaborative discussions among scholars, researchers, and educators to develop critical and creative ways of science teaching to improve and enrich the lives of our children and youths.
Book Synopsis Developments And Dilemmas In Science Education by : Peter Fensham Monash University, Australia.
Download or read book Developments And Dilemmas In Science Education written by Peter Fensham Monash University, Australia. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summary of the strengths and weaknesses in present practices of science education in schools, and of research in science education. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Book Synopsis Developments And Dilemmas In Science Education by : Australia. Peter Fensham Monash University
Download or read book Developments And Dilemmas In Science Education written by Australia. Peter Fensham Monash University and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summary of the strengths and weaknesses in present practices of science education in schools, and of research in science education. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Book Synopsis Development and Dilemmas in Science Education by : Peter J. Fensham
Download or read book Development and Dilemmas in Science Education written by Peter J. Fensham and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis The Role of Moral Reasoning on Socioscientific Issues and Discourse in Science Education by : Dana L. Zeidler
Download or read book The Role of Moral Reasoning on Socioscientific Issues and Discourse in Science Education written by Dana L. Zeidler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-29 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to address moral reasoning and socioscientific discourse. It provides a theoretical framework to reconsider what a "functional view" of scientific literacy entails, by examining how nature of science issues, classroom discourse issues, cultural issues, and science-technology-society-environment case-based issues contribute to habits of mind about socioscientific content. The text covers philosophical, psychological and pedagogical considerations underpinning moral reasoning, as well as the status of socioscientific issues in science education.
Book Synopsis Cases in Middle and Secondary Science Education by : Thomas R. Koballa (Jr.)
Download or read book Cases in Middle and Secondary Science Education written by Thomas R. Koballa (Jr.) and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For course in Middle or Secondary School Science. This casebook is ideal for preservice teachers to use as a problem-solving vehicle for science teaching and learning at the middle and secondary levels. It assists in developing an understanding of prevailing instructional practices and challenges current traditional approaches with convincing arguments that are supported by research. Ten of the twelve chapters contain 3-4 cases each; the initial chapter introduces the case method and the final chapter describes how to develop a cases based on teachers' personal experiences. The book is intended for beginning and experienced middle school and secondary science teachers, science teacher educators, science teacher mentors, and school administrators. It is also appropriate for secondary education courses at the graduate level.
Book Synopsis Science Education for Diversity by : Nasser Mansour
Download or read book Science Education for Diversity written by Nasser Mansour and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the very latest theory on diversity issues in science education, including new dialogic approaches, this volume explores the subject from a range of perspectives and draws on studies from around the world. The work discusses fundamental topics such as how we conceptualize diversity as well as examining the ways in which heterogeneous cultural constructs influence the teaching and learning of science in a range of contexts. Including numerous strategies ready for adoption by interested teachers, the book addresses the varied cultural factors that influence engagement with science education. It seeks answers to the question of why increasing numbers of students fail to connect with science education in schools and looks at the more subtle impact that students’ individually constructed identities have on the teaching and learning of science. Recognizing the diversity of its audience, the book covers differing levels and science subjects, and examines material from a range of viewpoints that include pedagogy, curricula, teacher education, learning, gender, religion, and ICT, as well as those of in-service and trainee teachers at all levels.
Book Synopsis Socio-scientific Issues in the Classroom by : Troy D. Sadler
Download or read book Socio-scientific Issues in the Classroom written by Troy D. Sadler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socio-scientific issues (SSI) are open-ended, multifaceted social issues with conceptual links to science. They are challenging to negotiate and resolve, and they create ideal contexts for bridging school science and the lived experience of students. This book presents the latest findings from the innovative practice and systematic investigation of science education in the context of socio-scientific issues. Socio-scientific Issues in the Classroom: Teaching, Learning and Research focuses on how SSI can be productively incorporated into science classrooms and what SSI-based education can accomplish regarding student learning, practices and interest. It covers numerous topics that address key themes for contemporary science education including scientific literacy, goals for science teaching and learning, situated learning as a theoretical perspective for science education, and science for citizenship. It presents a wide range of classroom-based research projects that offer new insights for SSI-based education. Authored by leading researchers from eight countries across four continents, this book is an important compendium of syntheses and insights for veteran researchers, teachers and curriculum designers eager to advance the SSI agenda.
Book Synopsis Dilemmas in Science Education by : John William Wallace
Download or read book Dilemmas in Science Education written by John William Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text combines theory, practice and personal perspectives through the use of case studies and commentaries by senior scholars in the field of science education.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Issues in African Sciences and Science Education by : Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw
Download or read book Contemporary Issues in African Sciences and Science Education written by Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this careful articulation of science, the editors provide an intellectual marriage of Indigenous science and science education in the African context as a way of revising schooling and education. They define science broadly to include both the science of the natural/physical/biological and the ‘science of the social’. It is noted that the current policy direction of African education continues to be a subject of intense intellectual discussion. Science education is very much at the heart of much current debates about reforming African schooling. Among the ways to counter-vision contemporary African education this book points to how we promote Indigenous science education to improve upon African science and technology development in general. The book also notes a long-standing push to re-examine local cultural resource knowings in order to appreciate and understand the nature, content and context of Indigenous knowledge science as a starting foundation for promoting African science and technology studies in general. It is argued that these interests and concerns are not mutually exclusive of each other but as a matter of fact interwoven and interdependent. The breadth of coverage of the collection reflect papers in science, Indigeneity, identity and knowledge production and the possibilities of creating a truly African-centred education. It is argued that such extensive coverage will engage and excite readers on the path of what has been termed ‘African educational recovery’. While the book is careful in avoiding stale debates about the ‘Eurocentricity of Western scientific knowledge’ and the positing of ‘Eurocentric science’ as the only science worthy of engagement, it nonetheless caution against constructing a binary between Indigenous/local science and knowledges and Western ‘scientific’ knowledge. After all, Western scientific knowledge is itself a form of local knowledge, born out of a particular social and historical context. Engaging science in a more global context will bring to the fore critical questions of how we create spaces for the study of Indigenous science knowledge in our schools. How is Indigenous science to be read, understood and theorized? And, how do educators gather/collect and interpret Indigenous science knowledges for the purposes of teaching young learners. These are critical questions for contemporary African education?
Book Synopsis Development and Dilemmas in Science Education by : Peter Fensham
Download or read book Development and Dilemmas in Science Education written by Peter Fensham and published by . This book was released on 1988-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science Education by : Sibel Erduran
Download or read book Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science Education written by Sibel Erduran and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prompted by the ongoing debate among science educators over ‘nature of science’, and its importance in school and university curricula, this book is a clarion call for a broad re-conceptualizing of nature of science in science education. The authors draw on the ‘family resemblance’ approach popularized by Wittgenstein, defining science as a cognitive-epistemic and social-institutional system whose heterogeneous characteristics and influences should be more thoroughly reflected in science education. They seek wherever possible to clarify their developing thesis with visual tools that illustrate how their ideas can be practically applied in science education. The volume’s holistic representation of science, which includes the aims and values, knowledge, practices, techniques, and methodological rules (as well as science’s social and institutional contexts), mirrors its core aim to synthesize perspectives from the fields of philosophy of science and science education. The authors believe that this more integrated conception of nature of science in science education is both innovative and beneficial. They discuss in detail the implications for curriculum content, pedagogy, and learning outcomes, deploy numerous real-life examples, and detail the links between their ideas and curriculum policy more generally.
Book Synopsis Issues in Science Teaching by : John Sears
Download or read book Issues in Science Teaching written by John Sears and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Science Teaching covers a wide range of important issues which will interest teachers at all phases in the education system. The issues discussed include: the nature and purposes of science education in a multicultural society, including the idea of science for all the role and purposes of investigational work in science education assessment, curriculum progression and pupil attitudes to their science experience supporting basic skills development in literacy, numeracy and ICT, through science teaching supporting cross-curricular work through science teaching taking account of individual differences including ability, special needs, learning style and the case for inclusion The articles are strongly based on current research and are intended to stimulate and broaden debate among the readers. Written by practising science educators and teachers, this book offers new and interesting ways of developing science education at all levels.
Book Synopsis EBOOK: SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP by : Mary Ratcliffe
Download or read book EBOOK: SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP written by Mary Ratcliffe and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2003-07-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is overwhelmingly a valuable book - particularly in the context of science education in the UK. It is a book that deserves to be read more widely by science teachers, particularly those who seek not simply to extend their repertoire of teaching techniques, but who wish to place these techniques upon a sound academic footing.” Educational Review "I have greatly enjoyed reading through Science Education for Citizenship. It is extremely informative and contains much of value. We will definitely be putting it on our MA in Science Education reading list." Dr Michael Reiss, Institute of Education, University of London This innovative book explores the effective teaching and learning of issues relating to the impact of science in society. Research case studies are used to examine the advantages and problems as science teachers try new learning approaches, including ethical analysis, use of media-reports, peer-group decision-making discussions and community projects. This book: offers practical guidance in devising learning goals and suitable learning and assessment strategies helps teachers to provide students with the skills and understanding needed to address these multi-faceted issues explores the nature and place of socio-scientific issues in the curriculum and the support necessary for effective teaching Science Education for Citizenship supports science teachers, citizenship teachers and other educators as they help students to develop the skills and understanding to deal with complex everyday issues.
Book Synopsis Metacognition in Science Education by : Anat Zohar
Download or read book Metacognition in Science Education written by Anat Zohar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is metacognition gaining recognition, both in education generally and in science learning in particular? What does metacognition contribute to the theory and practice of science learning? Metacognition in Science Education discusses emerging topics at the intersection of metacognition with the teaching and learning of science concepts, and with higher order thinking more generally. The book provides readers with a background on metacognition and analyses the latest developments in the field. It also gives an account of best-practice methodology. Expanding on the theoretical underpinnings of metacognition, and written by world leaders in metacognitive research, the chapters present cutting-edge studies on how various forms of metacognitive instruction enhance understanding and thinking in science classrooms. The editors strive for conceptual coherency in the various definitions of metacognition that appear in the book, and show that the study of metacognition is not an end in itself. Rather, it is integral to other important constructs, such as self-regulation, literacy, the teaching of thinking strategies, motivation, meta-strategies, conceptual understanding, reflection, and critical thinking. The book testifies to a growing recognition of the potential value of metacognition to science learning. It will motivate science educators in different educational contexts to incorporate this topic into their ongoing research and practice.
