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Science Education and Curriculum in South Africa

Author : Oscar Koopman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331940766X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Science Education and Curriculum in South Africa written by Oscar Koopman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the impact of the socio-historical, political, and economic environment in South Africa, both during and after Apartheid. During this time, the South African education system demonstrated an interest in a specific type of knowledge, which Koopman refers to as ‘a science of government’. This ‘science of government’ leaves the learners with a blurred understanding of science that is disconnected from external nature and human nature, and is presented as a series of abstract concepts and definitions. The book also investigates the dialectical tensions between the science curriculum and the role of the teacher as an active implementer of the curriculum. The book draws on the work of various phenomenological scholars, namely Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Max van Manen to discuss these tensions.

Science Education and Pedagogy in South Africa

Author : Oscar Koopman
Publisher : Complicated Conversation
ISBN 13 : 9781433148040
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Science Education and Pedagogy in South Africa written by Oscar Koopman and published by Complicated Conversation. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Education and Pedagogy in South Africa is a contemporary contribution that entices science teachers to 're-examine' or 'rethink' the pedagogical strategies they use in their teaching. It offers fresh and exciting teaching approaches that explore new ways to tackle the worrisome problems of how to plan, implement, and present excellent and quality learning opportunities. From this perspective the book is also a driver to enhance, promote, and accelerate learner performance in science education, given the many challenges that plague the subject. Science Education and Pedagogy in South Africa paves the way for researchers, postgraduate science education scholars, as well as pre-service and in-service science teachers to become empowered in their professional growth and development in search of appropriate pedagogies for a multicultural classroom.

The World of Science Education

Author : Femi S. Otulaja
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463510893
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book The World of Science Education written by Femi S. Otulaja and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume in the 7-volume series The World of Science Education reviews research in a key region of the world. These regions include North America, South and Latin America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe and Israel, North Africa and the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The focus of this Handbook is on research in science education in mostly former British colonies in Sub-Saharan Africa and the scholarship that most closely support this program. The reviews of the research situate what has been accomplished within a given field in Sub-Saharan Africa rather than an international context. The purpose therefore is to articulate and exhibit regional networks and trends that produced specific forms of science education. The thrust lies in identifying the roots of research programs and sketching trajectories – focusing the changing façade of problems and solutions within regional contexts. The approach allows readers to review what has been done and accomplished, what is missing and what might be done next.

Learner-centered Science Education

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9087906633
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Learner-centered Science Education written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book arises from the author’s experience of the South African science curriculum development and teaching since 1994, exploring definitions of science and approaches to science education appropriate to a newly liberated developing country. Each of the 50 chapters is borne out of Cliff Malcolm’s close relationships with communities in SA where he obtained deep insights into their attitudes to science teaching and learning, providing him with an empirical basis to challenge tertiary institutions to transform their curriculum offerings to embrace the culture and world views of African students.

Remapping Africa in the Global Space

Author : Edward Shizha
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9789462098350
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book Remapping Africa in the Global Space written by Edward Shizha and published by Brill. This book was released on 2014 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the benefits and risks for Africa's participation in the globalisation nexus? Remapping Africa in the Global Spaceis a visionary and interdisciplinary volume that restores Africa's image using a multidisciplinary lens. It incorporates disciplines such as sociology, education, global studies, economics, development studies, political science and philosophy to explore and theorise Africa's reality in the global space and to deconstruct the misperceptions and narratives that often infantilise Africa's internal and international relations. The contributions to this volume are a hybrid of both 'outsider' and 'insider' perspectives that create a balanced critical discourse that can provide 'standard' paradigms that can adequately explain, predict, or prevent Africa's current misperceptions and myths about the African 'crisis' and 'failure'status. The authors provide a holistic, and perhaps, anticolonial and anti-hegemonic perspective that can benefit a wide spectrum of academics, scholars, students, development agents, policy makers in both governmental and non-governmental organisations and engage some alternative analyses and possibilities for socio-politico and economic advancement in Africa. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on continental trends on various subjects and concerns of paramount importance to globalisation and development in Africa.

Changing Teaching, Changing Times

Author : Jonathan Clark
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9087901062
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Changing Teaching, Changing Times written by Jonathan Clark and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a science teacher and her work in an over-crowded and under-resourced township secondary school in contemporary South Africa. While set firmly in the present, it is also a journey into the past, shedding fresh light on how the legacy of apartheid education continues to have a major influence on teaching and learning in South Africa.

Science Curriculum Topic Study

Author : Page Keeley
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1412908922
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Science Curriculum Topic Study written by Page Keeley and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2005-02-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′Without question, this book will be of great value to the profession of science teaching. Given today′s educational landscape of standards and high-stakes testing, curriculum topic study is an essential piece of the puzzle′ - Cary Sneider, Vice President for Educator Programs, Museum of Science, Boston Discover the "missing link" between science standards, teacher practice, and improved student achievement! Becoming an accomplished science teacher not only requires a thorough understanding of science content, but also a familiarity with science standards and research on student learning. However, a comprehensive strategy for translating standards and research into instructional, practice has been lacking since the advent of standards-based education reform. Science Curriculum Topic Study provides a systematic professional development strategy that links science standards and research to curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Developed by author Page Keeley of the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance, the Curriculum Topic Study (CTS) process can help teachers align curriculum, instruction, and assessment with specific, research-based ideas and skills. The CTS process will help teachers: - Improve their understanding of science content - Clarify a hierarchy of content and skills in a learning goal from state or local standards - Define formative and summative assessment goals and strategies - Learn to recognize and address learning difficulties - Increase opportunities for students of all backgrounds to achieve science literacy - Design or utilize instructional materials effectively Containing 147 separate curriculum topic study guides arranged in eleven categories that represent the major domains of science, this book provides the tools to both positively impact student learning and develop the knowledge and skills that distinguish expert science teachers from novices.

Curriculum Studies in South Africa

Author : W. Pinar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230105505
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Curriculum Studies in South Africa written by W. Pinar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much has been written about South African education, now, for the first time, gathered in one collection are glimpses of South African curriculum studies described by six distinctive points of view.

Mathematics and Science Achievement at South African Schools in TIMSS 2003

Author : Vijay Reddy
Publisher : HSRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780796921581
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)

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Book Synopsis Mathematics and Science Achievement at South African Schools in TIMSS 2003 by : Vijay Reddy

Download or read book Mathematics and Science Achievement at South African Schools in TIMSS 2003 written by Vijay Reddy and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph reports on South Africa's performance in TIMMS 2003 relative to 50 other countries; describes the performance of different groups of learners in South Africa; and provides contextual information about teachers, schools and the curriculum. The report concludes with recommendations for strategic interventions to improve South African learners' performance in mathematics and science. The findings contained in this report offer valuable insights to academics, policymakers, curriculum-planners and teachers and those involved in the development of education in South Africa.

School Science Practical Work in Africa

Author : Umesh Ramnarain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429536259
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book School Science Practical Work in Africa written by Umesh Ramnarain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School Science Practical Work in Africa presents the scope of research and practice of science practical work in African schools. It brings together prominent science educators and researchers from Africa to share their experience and findings on pedagogical innovations and research-informed practices on school science practical work. The book highlights trends and patterns in the enactment and role of practical work across African countries. Practical work is regarded as intrinsic to science teaching and learning and the form of practical work that is strongly advocated is inquiry-based learning, which signals a definite paradigm shift from the traditional teacher-dominated to a learner-centered approach. The book provides empirical research on approaches to practical work, contextual factors in the enactment of practical work, and professional development in teaching practical work. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of science education and educational policy.

Science Curriculum Topic Study

Author : Page Keeley
Publisher : Corwin
ISBN 13 : 1071800051
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Science Curriculum Topic Study written by Page Keeley and published by Corwin. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making scientific literacy happen within the new vision of science teaching and learning. Engage students in using and applying disciplinary content, scientific and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts within curricular topics, and they will develop a scientifically-based and coherent view of the natural and designed world. The latest edition of this best-seller will help you make the shifts needed to reflect current practices in curriculum, instruction, and assessment. The book includes: • An increased emphasis on STEM • 103 separate curriculum topic study guides • Connections to content knowledge, curricular and instructional implications, concepts and specific ideas, research on student learning, K-12 articulation, and assessment

The Re-Emergence of Values in Science Education

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9087901674
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book The Re-Emergence of Values in Science Education written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues relating to values have always had a place in the school science curriculum. Sometimes this has been only in terms of the inclusion of topics such as ‘the nature of science’ and/or ‘scientific method’ and/or particular intentions for laboratory work that relate to ‘scientific method.’sometimes it has been much broader, for example in curricula with STS emphases. Of importance to aspects of this proposal is that different countries/cultures have had different traditions in terms of the place of values in the school [science] curriculum. One obvious very broad difference of this form is the central place in [science] education thinking in many European countries of bildung, and the complete absence of this construct from most [science] curriculum thinking in English speaking contexts. There are numbers of such country/cultural differences. In the 1990s many countries moved towards various conceptualizations of Outcomes Based Education - OBE (sometimes so labelled and sometimes not). It was usual (but not universal) for OBE focused science curricula to have constrained views of the values that should be implicit and explicit in curriculum; that is views concerned only with ‘the nature of science’ and ‘scientific method’ (both usually seen as quite unproblematic). Currently there are a number of education systems that are changing again, and choosing to move away from Outcomes Based Education (for example, South Africa and several Australian states). One of the most interesting features of many of these movements is the re-embracing of a wider view of the science curriculum, including a reconsideration of the nature and place of the values associated with science in the purposes for and approaches to science education.

Some Developments in Research in Science and Mathematics in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Lorna Holtman
Publisher : African Minds
ISBN 13 : 1920299297
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Some Developments in Research in Science and Mathematics in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Lorna Holtman and published by African Minds. This book was released on 2008 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much attention in late-developing countries is given to providing access to studies which allow school leavers to enter science and technology-related careers. This book reviews research related to the crucial dimension of epistemological access to the disciplines of import, which students need as much as institutional access in order to improve their chances of success. A significant feature of this collection's research studies is that their empirical bases are highly localised, covering areas such as research methods, access, curriculum, instruction and assessment, and the relevance of science and mathematics education in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Swaziland, South Africa, Namibia, Malawi, Ghana and Lesotho. It is the outcome of a doctoral research capacity-development project, the Graduate Studies in Science, Mathematics and Technology Education (GRASSMATE).

Educational Change in South Africa

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9087906609
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Educational Change in South Africa written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines Educational Change in South Africa, a country undergoing rapid social and political change, and situated geographically, historically and culturally in the South.

Teaching and Learning for Change

Author : Ingrid Schudel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781928502258
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Teaching and Learning for Change written by Ingrid Schudel and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many national curricula around the world, South Africa's curriculum is rich in environment and sustainability content. Despite this, environmental teaching and learning can be challenging for educators. This comes at a time when Sustainable Development Goal 4 via Target 4.7 requires governments to integrate Education for Sustainable Development into national education systems. Teaching and Learning for Change is an exploration of how teachers and teacher educators engage environment and sustainability content knowledge, methods, and assessment practices - an exposition of quality education processes in support of ecological and social justice and sustainability. The chapters evolve from a ten-year research programme led out of the DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Global Change and Social Learning Systems working with national partners in the Fundisa for Change programme and the UNESCO Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme. They show the integration of education for sustainable development in teacher professional development and curricula in schools in South Africa. They reveal how university-based researchers, teachers and teacher educators have made theoretically and contextually reasoned choices about their lives and their teaching in response to calls for a more sustainable world in which education must play a role. Teaching and Learning for Change will be of interest to education policymakers in government, advisors and educators in educational and environmental departments, NGOs and other institutions. It will also be of interest to teacher educators, teachers and researchers in education more generally, and environment and sustainability education specifically.--

Global Developments in Literacy Research for Science Education

Author : Kok-Sing Tang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331969197X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Global Developments in Literacy Research for Science Education written by Kok-Sing Tang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights recent developments in literacy research in science teaching and learning from countries such as Australia, Brazil, China, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States. It includes multiple topics and perspectives on the role of literacy in enhancing science teaching and learning, such as the struggles faced by students in science literacy learning, case studies and evaluations of classroom-based interventions, and the challenges encountered in the science classrooms. It offers a critical and comprehensive investigation on numerous emerging themes in the area of literacy and science education, including disciplinary literacy, scientific literacy, classroom discourse, multimodality, language and representations of science, and content and language integrated learning (CLIL). The diversity of views and research contexts in this volume presents a useful introductory handbook for academics, researchers, and graduate students working in this specialized niche area. With a wealth of instructional ideas and innovations, it is also highly relevant for teachers and teacher educators seeking to improve science teaching and learning through the use of literacy.

Raising the Impact of Education Research in Africa

Author : Charl C. Wolhuter
Publisher : AOSIS
ISBN 13 : 1928396801
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Raising the Impact of Education Research in Africa written by Charl C. Wolhuter and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The low demonstrable effect of education research done in South Africa in particular – and Africa in general – continues to be a problem in scientific records in the educational sciences. This scholarly collected work addresses this obstacle and focuses on recommendations from scholars in different sectorial categories in the field of education. Scholars from a variety of sub-fields within the educational sciences reflect on this particular matter, revisiting the history of research and research outcomes and offering informed recommendations based on in-depth investigation and analysis of aspects of the various discourses within the relevant sub-fields. The scope of the content of this collected work centres on the issue of the lack of scientific records concerning the scientific raising of the impact of education research. The book aims at making a specific contribution to the educational sciences by stimulating scholarly discussion around how to increase the recording of the significance of educational research done in Africa, and in South Africa in particular, and to redirect the research agenda into the direction of making more impact. Impact is conceptualised to mean both scholarly impact (that is being cited and being used as foundation for theory building and for further research) and practical impact (that is improvement of practice, teaching and learning in education institutions at all levels).