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Okhee Lee Karen Adamson Jaime Maerten-Rivera Scott Lewis Constance Thornton Kathryn LeRoy 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2008,19(1):41-67
Our 5-year professional development intervention is designed to promote elementary teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and practices
in teaching science, along with English language and mathematics for English Language Learning (ELL) students in urban schools.
In this study, we used an end-of-year questionnaire as a primary data source to seek teachers’ perspectives on our intervention
during the first year of implementation. Teachers believed that the intervention, including curriculum materials and teacher
workshops, effectively promoted students’ science learning, along with English language development and mathematics learning.
Teachers highlighted strengths and areas needing improvement in the intervention. Teachers’ perspectives have been incorporated
into our on-going intervention efforts and offer insights into features of effective professional development initiatives
in improving science achievement for all students.
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| Scott LewisEmail: |
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Increasing numbers of Spanish-speaking preschool children require attention to improve the likelihood of success in school.
This study, part of a larger 2-year ethnographic study of a Head Start classroom, elaborates the role of teachers’ interactions
with students who were learning English. Using an interactional ethnography approach, the authors focus on the social nature
of these interactions. The study illuminates the kinds of teacher interactions with students that support and hinder the students’
language learning. It reinforces the importance of student engagement in social interactions with teachers and with English
other than codes of obedience and authority. Finally, it recommends actions teachers can take to provide optimal circumstances
for English learning interactions for students.
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| Lesley A. RexEmail: URL: http://www.umich.edu/~rex/ |
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Tara E. Higgins Michele W. Spitulnik 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2008,17(5):511-521
Professional development is critical in supporting teachers’ use of technological tools in classrooms. This review of empirical
research synthesizes the effective elements of professional development programs that support science teachers in learning
about technology integration. Studies are examined that explore how professional development supports technology use within
inquiry-based and traditional science instruction. Implications for future research are discussed in four areas: understanding
and building on teachers’ beliefs about science and technology; supporting teacher learning by supporting teachers’ examination
of students’ work; using technology to support teacher communities and social networks; and sustaining teachers’ learning
beyond formal professional development programs.
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| Tara E. HigginsEmail: |
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Sumi Hagiwara Angela Calabrese Barton Isobel Contento 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2007,2(2):475-515
The article explores the role of immigrant parents in middle school science as both teachers and learners as part of an urban
middle school curriculum, the Linking in Food and the Environment (LiFE) program. The curriculum engaged parents as partners
with science teachers to teach science through food. Over a 2-year period, parents attended a series of bilingual workshops,
collaborated with classroom teachers, managed activities, guided student inquiry, and assisted in classroom management. The
following study analyzes the role of culture, language, and identity as four mothers navigated their position as ‘insiders’
in a science classroom.
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| Sumi HagiwaraEmail: |
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Bhaskar Upadhyay 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(3):569-586
This study draws upon a qualitative case study to investigate the impact of the high-stakes test environment on an elementary
teacher’s identities and the influence of identity maintenance on science teaching. Drawing from social identity theory, I
argue that we can gain deep insight into how and why urban elementary science teachers engage in defining and negotiating
their identities in practice. In addition, we can further understand how and why science teachers of poor urban students engage
in teaching decisions that accommodate school demands and students’ needs to succeed in high-stakes tests. This paper presents
in-depth experiences of one elementary teacher as she negotiates her identities and teaching science in school settings that
emphasize high-stakes testing. I found that a teacher’s identities generate tensions while teaching science when: (a) schools
prioritize high-stakes tests as the benchmark of teacher success and student success; (b) activity-based and participatory
science teaching is deemphasized; (c) science teacher of minority students identity is threatened or questioned; and (d) a
teacher perceives a threat to one’s identities in the context of high stakes testing. Further, the results suggest that stronger
links to identities generate more positive values in teachers, and greater possibilities for positive actions in science classrooms
that support minority students’ success in science.
Bhaskar Upadhyay is an assistant professor of science education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research focuses on equity and social justice issues in science education; sociocultural influences on teaching and learning of science; and issues of teaching and learning science to immigrant children and parents. He teaches courses concerning equity, diversity, social justice, and multicultural education issues in science teaching and learning. 相似文献
| Bhaskar UpadhyayEmail: |
Bhaskar Upadhyay is an assistant professor of science education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research focuses on equity and social justice issues in science education; sociocultural influences on teaching and learning of science; and issues of teaching and learning science to immigrant children and parents. He teaches courses concerning equity, diversity, social justice, and multicultural education issues in science teaching and learning. 相似文献
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Language in Science Education as a Gatekeeper to Learning,Teaching, and Professional Development 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Felicia M. Moore 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2007,18(2):319-343
In this study, I used a feminist poststructural perspective to explain how language is a gatekeeper in learning science, in
achieving professional honors in teaching science, and in teaching science to English language learners. The various uses
of language revealed interesting dynamics related to the culture of power of language and the culture of power of science
along race–ethnicity, gender, and class dimensions for teachers. Teachers did not necessarily see language as having distinct
purposes and uses. This further maintained the gatekeeping nature of language and discourse in science education. I discuss
implications for looking at language in science education for teacher professional development and student learning.
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| Felicia M. MooreEmail: |
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Using multi-institutional data from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program’s (CIRP) annual survey of entering freshmen,
the Higher Education Research Institute’s (HERI) Faculty Surveys, campus registrars’ offices, and IPEDS data, we evaluated
the extent to which peer institutional retention climates and faculty perceived campus climates influenced individual 6-year
retention rates. We used hierarchical generalized linear models (HGLM) to examine the extent to which institutional climate
(as measured by peer institutional retention climate and faculty perceived climate), net of students’ ability, expectations,
and family socioeconomic status, influence students’ persistence behavior. We found that institutional retention climate,
as defined by a student body’s aggregated report of withdrawal intentions, did independently determine whether a student would
persist or not. While past research has overlooked peer and faculty climates, the results from this work call for the attention
of peer institutional retention climates.
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| Byung Shik RheeEmail: |
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Recent studies of elementary teachers’ knowledge about reading have been built on the premise that teachers need thorough
knowledge about language and reading processes, but these studies have provided only limited evidence that teachers’ performance
on tests of such knowledge contributes to their students’ reading achievement. The present study was designed to examine the
contribution of first- through third-grade teachers’ knowledge about early reading to their students’ improvement on tests
of word analysis and reading comprehension, controlling for socio-demographic characteristics of students, their prior reading
achievement, and teachers’ educational attainment, professional experiences, and socio-demographic characteristics. Preliminary
analyses indicated that the test of teachers’ knowledge had adequate psychometric characteristics. However, performance on
this measure of teachers’ knowledge did not significantly explain students’ improvement on the two reading subtests. The complexity
of the factors that influence teachers’ knowledge acquisition and the context in which the study was carried out offer possible
explanations for these results. In addition, teachers’ content knowledge about reading might not be closely associated with
the practices they use in reading instruction, and therefore might not be significantly related to their students’ improvement
in reading over a year.
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| Joanne F. CarlisleEmail: |
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Most institutions of higher education allow students to drop or add courses in the first 2–3 weeks of each term (D&A). Arguing
that course cancellation is not merely an administrative issue involving enrollment trends but represents complex decision
making processes taken by students, this study investigated antecedents and correlates of course cancellation during a D&A
period in 109 elective courses. Student ratings of the teachers (SRT) and characteristics of the syllabi distributed in the
first class session were investigated as predictors of course cancellation. Rates of cancellation were significantly predicted
from SRT and from syllabus workload difficulty—lower quality teachers (SRT-based) and more difficult courses (syllabus-based)
being cancelled more frequently. Analysis of a sub-sample of truly elective, high-priority courses revealed that these correlations
were intensified in teacher-centered lecture courses, but nullified in student-centered seminar courses, in which students
write independent research papers. The importance of students’ course selection and course cancellation as decision making
processes, the methodology based on institutional data rather than students’ self-reports, and the unique effects of course
difficulty on students’ decisions were discussed.
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| Elisha BabadEmail: |
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In this rejoinder to Ann Kindfield and Grady Venville’s comments on our article “Reconsidering conceptual change from a socio-cultural
perspective: Analyzing students’ meaning making in genetics in collaborative learning activities,” we elaborate on some of
the critical issues they raise. Their comments make apparent some of the crucial differences between a socio-cultural and
a socio-cognitive approach towards conceptual change. We have selected some issues that are addressed, either implicitly or
explicitly, in their comments. The main issues discussed are talk and interaction as data, the significance of context in
interaction studies, the feasibility of generic claims in small-scale interaction studies, and the difference between studying
students’ understanding of science concepts as opposed to studying the construction of meaning.
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| Anniken FurbergEmail: |
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This exploratory study examines the learning beliefs of high and low achieving, low-income Mexican-American students. Semi-structured
interviews were conducted with 11 ninth grade students. The qualitative analysis shows that students’ perceptions of their
teachers’ expectations of a “good” student or a “not so good” student did not differ along achievement lines. However, the
students’ perceptions about what it means to be a good student differentiated the low-achievers from the high-achievers. This
study’s findings may be used to inform educators about Mexican-American students’ orientation towards school and learning,
in hopes for creating more equitable educational settings where all students achieve to their fullest potential.
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| Soung BaeEmail: |
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Mattias Lundin 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2007,16(5):369-377
This article sets out to examine how school science activities can encourage students’ participation while supporting a specific
science content. One ordinary class with 12-year-old students was chosen and their regular classroom work was studied without
intervention and with a minimum of interference. Lessons were video filmed, transcribed and analyzed focussing on the participants’
speech acts. It was found that students’ initiatives and experiences were important parts of their participation. The results
show how students’ participation was orchestrated with a science content by means of four different kinds of activities. The
activities are called ‘individual inventory of experiences’, ‘building a common platform of experiences’, ‘sharing new experiences’
and ‘concluding a common platform’. The activities form a foundation for participation in human biology topics. For example,
to ‘build a common platform of experiences’ seems to level out students’ different prerequisites for participating in subsequent
tasks. Furthermore, to ‘conclude a common platform’ implied a checkpoint of the shared new experiences. The activities support
students’ tentative use of scientific words as well as their learning of what counts as knowledge in the school science setting.
However, it can be questioned if the time spent on each separate activity is necessary or if similar achievements could be
made even if some activities were integrated. The question is open for further research.
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| Mattias LundinEmail: |
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Alberto J. Rodriguez 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2008,3(4):867-873
This paper provides a critical review essay of Ajay Sharma’s Portrait of a science teacher as a bricoleur: A case study from India. The main focus is two fold. First, arguments are presented to draw attention to how little advances in science teaching and
science learning research have impacted teachers’ practice and student achievement in the last 40 years. Second, the paper
describes how the researcher’s traditionally detached role and truncated agency may inadvertently contribute to preserving
the status quo by only documenting the Other’s struggles and challenges. I suggest that researchers need to re-conceptualize
their roles as co-agents of change if we are to assist the Other effect positive and long-lasting change in the increasingly
complex and demanding contexts in which teachers are expected to teach and students to learn.
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| Alberto J. RodriguezEmail: |
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Developing Science Pedagogical Content Knowledge Through Mentoring Elementary Teachers 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Ken Appleton 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2008,19(6):523-545
Elementary teachers are typically hesitant to teach science. While a limited knowledge of science content is a reason for
this, limited science pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) has emerged as another reason in recent research. This study constitutes
two case studies of a professional development program for elementary teachers involving mentoring by a university professor.
The mentor took the role of a critical friend in joint planning and teaching of science. The study examines the nature of
the mentoring relationship and reports the type of teacher learning that occurred, with a particular focus on the teachers’
development of science PCK.
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| Ken AppletonEmail: |
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Maria S. Rivera Maulucci 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2008,3(1):17-42
This study reports a subset of findings from a larger, ongoing study aimed at exploring interactions between teacher identity,
learning, and classroom practices in a social justice teacher education program at a selective liberal arts college in New
York. This case-study explores the journey of Elena, as an immigrant, a student, and a pre-service teacher candidate towards
becoming a social justice educator. Elena reflects upon her school language experiences as an immigrant youth, her learning
in a social justice teacher education program, and her field experiences in an international high school. The analysis spans
macro-, meso-, and microlevels to explore the ways globalization, particularly immigration, as well as schooling policies
for English language learners interact with aspects of Elena’s core identity, particularly in school settings. The findings
show some of the ways language and literacy verified and/or denied aspects of Elena’s core identity; specific instances where
second language proficiency was cast as power and privilege versus disadvantage according to ethnic, language, and class categorizations;
and the struggles Elena, and other immigrant youth may face given the focus on English language acquisition and high stakes
accountability in schools, at the expense of students’ primary language proficiency and affirmation of core identity markers.
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| Maria S. Rivera MaulucciEmail: |
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Mattias Lundin 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2007,2(1):265-279
Research has shown how students can shift between different ways of communicating about natural phenomena. The point of departure
in this text is that school science comprises science ways to communicate as well as everyday ways to communicate. In school
science activities transitions, from for example everyday ways to explain to science ways to explain, occur and the purpose
of this paper is to show what role questions play in these transitions. Data consists of video observations of a group of
24 students, 15 years of age, doing their ordinary school science work without my interference in their planning. Relevant
conversations including questions were transcribed. The analysis was made by examining the establishment of relations between
utterances in the transcribed conversations. Relations that bridge science and everyday language games are described in the
results. Questions that were formulated in an everyday language game illustrate the difficulties of making transitions to
a science language game. Without teacher guidance, students’ questions are potential promoters for making the topic drift
and to develop into something totally different from the topic as planned by the teacher. However, questions promote transitions
to an everyday language game. These can be used by teachers for example to adjust an everyday explanation and guide students
in making science knowledge useful in daily life.
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| Mattias LundinEmail: |
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Maria Inês Mafra Goulart Eduardo Sarquis Soares 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(3):587-594
Elementary science teaching has been considered by recent researchers as a process in which students should be engaged in
a variety of activities to develop science concepts, science process skills and scientific attitudes. From this perspective,
hands-on activities are prominent in this approach because it leads the students to both reflect on the natural and physical
world, and understand the social role of science in society. In Upadhyay’s article we follow an elementary teacher who struggles
to implement a participatory method of science teaching in an environment that prioritizes high-stakes tests as the benchmarks
for teachers’ and students’ success. In so doing, the teacher negotiates her identities in order to engage the students in
the process of learning science even though the environment requires a teaching methodology that is against her beliefs. In
our commentary on Upadhyay’s article we argue that (a) the tensions experienced by teachers create the core of the process
of fluidity identity; (b) the different forms of external control over the teaching are inherent in educational systems and
also a demand of parents and society; and (c) the possibility for social mobility of minority students is a complex process
that goes beyond the dichotomy identified in Upadhyay’s article, namely that either the students learn to think scientifically,
or the students learn tricks that enable them to succeed in the tests.
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| Eduardo Sarquis Soares (Corresponding author)Email: |