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Jonathan Singer Christine Lotter Robert Feller Harry Gates 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2011,22(3):203-227
A hallmark of current science education reform involves teaching through inquiry. However, the widespread use of inquiry-based
instruction in many classrooms has not occurred (Roehrig and Luft in Int J Sci Educ 26:3–24, 2004; Schneider et al. in J Res Sci Teach 42:283–312, 2005). The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a professional development program on middle school science
teachers’ ability to enact inquiry-based pedagogical practices. Data were generated through evaluation of teacher practice
using the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) (Sawada et al. in School Sci Math 102:245–253, 2002) at three distinct junctures, before, during, and after the professional development treatment. Analysis of teacher-participant
post-institute reflections was then utilized to determine the perceived role of the various institute components. Statistical
significant changes in RTOP scores indicated that the teachers were able to successfully transfer the enactment of the inquiry-based
practices into their classrooms. The subsequent discussion provides connection between these pedagogical changes with use
of professional development strategies that provide a situated learning environment. 相似文献
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We know that metacognitive students are successful in school (Sternberg Instructional Science 26:127–140, 1998). However, despite the recognition of the role of metacognition in student success, limited research has been done to explore
teachers’ explicit awareness of their metacognition and their ability to think about, talk about, and write about their thinking
(Zohar Teaching and Teacher Education 15:413-429, 1999). Therefore, the current study investigates teachers’ understanding of metacognition and their pedagogical understanding
of metacognition, and the nature of what it means to teach students to be metacognitive. One hundred-five graduate students
in education participated in this study. The data analysis results, using mixed research method, suggest that the participant’s
metacognitive knowledge had a significant impact on his/her pedagogical understanding of metacognition. The results revealed
that teachers who have a rich understanding of metacognition report that teaching students to be metacognitive requires a
complex understanding of both the concept of metacognition and metacognitive thinking strategies. 相似文献
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Silvia Cristina Bettez Jean Rockford Aguilar-Valdez Heidi B. Carlone Jewell E. Cooper 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2011,6(4):941-950
This article is a response to Randy Yerrick and Joseph Johnson’s article “Negotiating White Science in Rural Black America:
A Case for Navigating the Landscape of Teacher Knowledge Domains”. They write about research conducted by Yerrick in which
videos of his teaching practice as a White educator in a predominately Black rural classroom were examined. Their analysis
is framed through Shulman’s (1986) work on “domains of teacher knowledge” and Ladson-Billings’ (1999) critical race theory (CRT). Although we appreciate a framework that attends to issues of power, such as CRT, we see a heavier
emphasis on Shulman’s work in their analysis. We argue that a culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) framework has the potential
to provide a more nuanced analysis of what occurred in Yerrick’s classroom from a critical lens. Thus we examine Yerrick and
Johnson’s work through the five main CRP components (as defined by Brown-Jeffy and Cooper 2011) and ultimately argue that science educators who want to promote equity in their classrooms should engage in continuous critical
reflexivity, aid students in claiming voice, and encourage students to become not only producers of scientific knowledge but
also users and critics of such knowledge. 相似文献
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Shelly Sheats Harkness 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2009,70(3):243-258
The study reported here is the third in a series of research articles (Harkness, S. S., D’Ambrosio, B., & Morrone, A. S.,in
Educational Studies in Mathematics 65:235–254, 2007; Morrone, A. S., Harkness, S. S., D’Ambrosio, B., & Caulfield, R. in Educational Studies in Mathematics 56:19–38, 2004) about the teaching practices of the same university professor and the mathematics course, Problem Solving, she taught for preservice elementary teachers. The preservice teachers in Problem Solving reported that they were motivated and that Sheila made learning goals salient. For the present study, additional data were
collected and analyzed within a qualitative methodology and emergent conceptual framework, not within a motivation goal theory
framework as in the two previous studies. This paper explores how Sheila’s “trying to believe,” rather than a focus on “doubting”
(Elbow, P., Embracing contraries, Oxford University Press, New York, 1986), played out in her practice and the implications it had for both classroom conversations about mathematics and her own mathematical
thinking. 相似文献
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Kristin M. Larsen 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2012,43(1):27-47
In this article, the author explores the richly layered double text of Kushner and Sendak’s picturebook, Brundibar (2003)—the historical context of Brundibár as a Holocaust-era children’s operetta by Hans Krása and Adolf Hoffmeister, and the present day manifestation of Brundibar as a children’s picturebook. In order to contextualize the discussion of Kushner and Sendak’s text, Brundibar’s historical origins in Nazi-annexed Czechoslovakia and its transition to the stage in the Nazi “model” concentration camp,
Terezín, is presented. An extensive semiotic analysis of Kushner and Sendak’s illustrations and text is also provided within
the framework of what Kushner (The art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the present, 2003) terms “a world of trouble and woe and worse” (p. 210). Furthermore, the author discusses the development of Sendak’s Hitlerian
Brundibar and the struggles that both Kushner and Sendak faced as they considered how to portray the story’s antagonist, given
their somewhat differing conceptions of which difficult themes and topics children should be exposed to during childhood.
To round out this discussion, the author explores pedagogical implications for teachers as they read difficult texts, particularly
Holocaust texts, with children. 相似文献
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This study investigates the mechanisms of scaffolding in a synchronous network-based environment – the ‘collaborative virtual
workplace’. A theoretical ‘multi-actor’ scaffolding model was formulated. The study itself focused on the role and inter-relations
of verbal scaffolding by tutor and peers during a collaborative process of making decisions about environmental issues. The analysis drew on data from the decision-making
discussions of 31 groups – material that was saved automatically by the learning environment software. The age of the 62 students
ranged from 14 to 17. Discourse act categories were devised to describe the tutor’s and the students’ task-related, supportive
and social communicative acts. The scaffolding situation was characterized through a causal discourse act interaction approach.
Tutor and students appeared to be elaborating and replacing each other’s process scaffolding acts in the collaborative decision-making
situation. The influence of certain tutor’s and students’ inter-related scaffolding patterns on students’ decision-making
provided empirical support for the ‘multi-actor’ scaffolding model.
in final form: 12 May 2005 相似文献
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Katherine Richardson Bruna 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2010,5(2):383-422
In this article, I return to the interactions of Augusto and his teacher in an “English Learner Science” classroom in a demographically-transitioning
US Midwest community (Richardson Bruna and Vann in Cult Stud Sci Educ 2:19–59, 2007) and further engage a class-first perspective to achieve two main conceptual objectives. First, I examine Augusto’s science
education experience as a way of understanding processes Rouse (Towards a transnational perspective on migration: Race, class,
ethnicity, and nationalism reconsidered. The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, 1992) refers to as “the disciplinary production of class-specific subjects” (p. 31). Coming from a subsistence farming community
in rural Mexico to an industrialized meatpacking community in semi-rural Iowa, I describe how Augusto undergoes a change in
his class identity (experiences a Class Transformation) that is not just reflected but, in fact, produced in his science class.
Second, I examine the work Augusto does to resist these processes of disciplinary production as he reshapes his teacher’s
instruction (promotes a class transformation) through specific transnational social capital he leverages as peer mediation.
My overall goals in the article are to demonstrate the immediate relevance of a socio-historical, situated perspective to
science teaching and learning and to outline domains of action for an insurgent, class-cognizant, science education practice
informed by transnational social capital, like Augusto’s. 相似文献
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Kirsi Pyhältö Tiina Soini Janne Pietarinen 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2010,25(2):207-221
Basic education has two main goals: to promote high quality learning outcomes and pupils’ personal growth and well-being.
The interrelated nature of learning and well-being is here referred to as pedagogical well-being. In this study, we explore
Finnish comprehensive school pupils’ (N = 518) experienced pedagogical well-being by examining the kinds of situations that pupils themselves find either highly
positive or highly negative during their school career. Pupils’ pedagogical well-being is empirically examined in two complementary
aspects: (1) determining the point in the pupils’ school career in which the critical incidents are situated and (2) identifying
the primary contexts of pupils’ experienced critical incidents of pedagogical well-being. Results showed that critical incidents
for pedagogical well-being reported by the pupils were situated all along their school career. A variety of episodes causing
empowerment and satisfaction, as well as disappointment and anxiety, were reported by the pupils. Pupils perceived the social
interactions within the school community as being the most rewarding as well as the most problematic part of their school
career. 相似文献
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Peter Charles Taylor 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2011,6(4):795-801
John Settlage’s article—Counterstories from White Mainstream Preservice Teachers: Resisting the Master Narrative of Deficit by Default—outlines his endeavour to enable pre-service teachers to develop culturally responsive science teaching identities for resisting
the master narrative of deficit thinking when confronted by the culturally different ‘other.’ Case study results are presented
of the role of counterstories in enabling five pre-service teachers to overcome deficit thinking. In this forum, Philip Moore,
a cultural anthropologist and university professor, deepens our understanding of the power and significance of counterstories
as an educational tool for enabling students to deconstruct oppressive master narratives. Jill Slay, dean of a science faculty,
examines her own master narrative about the compatibility of culturally similar academics and graduate students, and finds
it lacking. But first, I introduce this scholarship with background notes on the critical paradigm and its adversary, the
grand narrative of science education, following which I give an appreciative understanding of John’s pedagogical use of counterstories
as a transformative strategy for multi-worldview science teacher education. 相似文献
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David Guile 《Vocations and Learning》2011,4(2):93-111
The paper analyses a form of interprofessional working and learning (IPWL)—the fleeting spatial and temporal constitution
of project teams with little prior history of working together—that is an increasing feature of work in the global economy.
The paper argues firstly: (i) this form of working and learning is relatively under-researched in professional, vocational
and workplace learning (PVWL); and, (ii) the research traditions—Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and Cultural Anthropology/Symbolic
Interactionist (CA/SI)—that some researchers in PVWL have drawn on to investigate IPWL do not allow them to capture the cognitive
and symbolic complexity of this activity. Secondly, it is possible to reveal the nature of this complexity when the concepts
and methods associated with CHAT and CA-SI-based approaches are supplemented with the concepts of ‘inference’, ‘space of reasons’,
‘restructuring and ‘recontextualisation’ (Guile, 2010). The paper demonstrates this claim by reinterpreting a classic study of the aforementioned form of working and learning
undertaken by Hall, Stevens and Torolba that drew on concepts and methods from CA and SI (2002). 相似文献
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Ireland has two official languages—Gaeilge (Irish) and English. Similarly, primary- and second-level education can be mediated
through the medium of Gaeilge or through the medium of English. This research is primarily focused on students (Gaeilgeoirí)
in the transition from Gaeilge-medium mathematics education to English-medium mathematics education. Language is an essential
element of learning, of thinking, of understanding and of communicating and is essential for mathematics learning. The content
of mathematics is not taught without language and educational objectives advocate the development of fluency in the mathematics
register. The theoretical framework underpinning the research design is Cummins’ (1976). Thresholds Hypothesis. This hypothesis infers that there might be a threshold level of language proficiency that bilingual
students must achieve both in order to avoid cognitive deficits and to allow the potential benefits of being bilingual to
come to the fore. The findings emerging from this study provide strong support for Cummins’ Thresholds Hypothesis at the key
transitions—primary- to second-level and second-level to third-level mathematics education—in Ireland. Some implications and
applications for mathematics teaching and learning are presented.
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John O’DonoghueEmail: |
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Lena Hansson Andreas Redfors Maria Rosberg 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2011,20(4):388-402
In a European project—CoReflect—researchers in seven countries are developing, implementing and evaluating teaching sequences
using a web-based platform (STOCHASMOS). The interactive web-based inquiry materials support collaborative and reflective
work. The learning environments will be iteratively tested and refined, during different phases of the project. All learning
environments are focusing “socio-scientific issues”. In this article we report from the pilot implementation of the Swedish
learning environment which has an Astrobiology context. The socio-scientific driving questions are “Should we look for, and
try to contact, extraterrestrial life?”, and “Should we transform Mars into a planet where humans can live in the future?”
The students were in their last year of compulsory school (16 years old), and worked together in triads. We report from the
groups’ decisions and the support used for their claims. On a group level a majority of the student groups in their final
statements express reluctance towards both the search of extraterrestrial life and the terraforming of Mars. The support used
by the students are reported and discussed. We also look more closely into the argumentation of one of the student groups.
The results presented in this article, differ from earlier studies on students’ argumentation and decision making on socio-scientific
issues (Aikenhead in Science education for everyday life. Evidence-based practice. Teachers College Press, New York, (2006) for an overview), in that they suggest that students do use science related arguments—both from “core” and “frontier” science—in
their argumentation and decision making. 相似文献
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Laura Black Julian Williams Paul Hernandez-Martinez Pauline Davis Maria Pampaka Geoff Wake 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2010,73(1):55-72
The construct of identity has been used widely in mathematics education in order to understand how students (and teachers)
relate to and engage with the subject (Kaasila, 2007; Sfard & Prusak, 2005; Boaler, 2002). Drawing on cultural historical activity theory (CHAT), this paper adopts Leont’ev’s notion of leading activity in order to explore the key ‘significant’ activities that are implicated in the development of students’ reflexive understanding
of self and how this may offer differing relations with mathematics. According to Leont’ev (1981), leading activities are those which are significant to the development of the individual’s psyche through the emergence
of new motives for engagement. We suggest that alongside new motives for engagement comes a new understanding of self—a leading identity—which reflects a hierarchy of our motives. Narrative analysis of interviews with two students (aged 16–17 years old) in post-compulsory
education, Mary and Lee, are presented. Mary holds a stable ‘vocational’ leading identity throughout her narrative and, thus,
her motive for studying mathematics is defined by its ‘use value’ in terms of pursuing this vocation. In contrast, Lee develops
a leading identity which is focused on the activity of studying and becoming a university student. As such, his motive for
study is framed in terms of the exchange value of the qualifications he hopes to obtain. We argue that this empirical grounding
of leading activity and leading identity offers new insights into students’ identity development. 相似文献
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Eija Pakarinen Noona Kiuru Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen Anna-Maija Poikkeus Martti Siekkinen Jari-Erik Nurmi 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2010,25(3):281-300
This study examined the extent to which observed teaching practices and self-reported teacher stress predict children’s learning
motivation and phonological awareness in kindergarten. The pre-reading skills of 1,268 children were measured at the beginning
of their kindergarten year. Their learning motivation and phonological awareness were assessed in the following spring. Questionnaires
measuring teacher stress were filled out by 137 kindergarten teachers. A pair of trained observers used the Classroom Assessment
Scoring System (Pianta et al. 2008) to observe 49 kindergarten teachers from the whole sample on their emotional support, classroom organization, and instructional
support. The results of multilevel modeling showed that low teacher stress and high classroom organization predicted high
learning motivation in children and that the children’s learning motivation contributed to their level of phonological awareness.
Moreover, children’s learning motivation mediated the association between teacher stress and children’s phonological awareness.
The results emphasize the importance of teachers’ pedagogical well-being and classroom organizational quality for children’s
learning motivation. 相似文献
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Marilyn Fleer 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2010,5(3):563-576
This essay review of Goulart and Roth’s work explores the cultural-historical concepts that they have drawn upon to create
a new conception of emergent curriculum in early childhood science education. The pedagogical contexts of Brazilian preschools
is discussed in relation to other practices found across cultural communities, with a view to locating the specific research
need that has arisen for preschools within Brazil. In the latter part of this article, Davydov’s (International perspectives
in non-classical psychology, 2008) work on theoretical knowledge and dialectical thinking is discussed in order to further develop Goulart and Roth’s conception
of early childhood science curriculum. 相似文献
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Courtney E. Kimmel R. Bruce Hull Max O. Stephenson David P. Robertson Kimberly H. Cowgill 《Higher Education》2012,64(2):223-235
In the struggle to remain true to their technical assistance and civic engagement missions in an era of shrinking budgets and increasingly complex accountability claims, land grant universities have developed different engagement strategies to contribute to the development of surrounding communities. Drawing on Flora and Flora’s (in Ann Am Acad Polit Soc Sci, 48, 1993) assertion that a strong and “entrepreneurial” social infrastructure is critical for facilitating lasting change and development in communities (particularly rural communities), this article presents a case study of a land grant university’s engagement with a community landcare group from the perspective of building social capacity in surrounding communities. This case explores Virginia Tech’s involvement in facilitating and supporting Catawba Landcare using three theoretical frames—Ronald Heifetz’s concept of “holding environments” as a safe and facilitated space where social learning can occur; ecological and social entrepreneurship and the roles and functions required to support these forms of entrepreneurship; and the concept of learning action networks in which otherwise disparate partners are linked under common goals and collectively learn how to manage the situation at hand. Using these three theoretical frames, this paper posits landcare as a model of engagement for land grant universities thus contributing to the construction of social infrastructure. 相似文献
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Patricia M. Cooper 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,34(5):315-322
Today’s emphasis on using children’s literature as a tool to teach reading and writing sub-skills distracts teachers’ attention
from looking to children’s books for their historical role in helping children navigate the intellectual, social, and emotional
terrains of childhood. This article argues, first, that early childhood educators must remain fluent in the use of literature
that supports young children’s psychosocial development. Second, teachers must establish criteria for choice. By way of example,
it examines two popular books for young children, Sendak’s (1963) Where the Wild Things Are [New York: HarperCollins Publishers] and Shannon’s (1998) No, David! [New York: Blue Sky Press] Three theoretical perspectives guide the analysis. The first combines Dewey’s (1938/97) [Experience and education. New York:Touchstone] impetus for learning and Vygotsky’s (1978) [Mind in society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press] theory that learning precedes development through scaffolded social
interaction. The second is Erikson’s (1950, 1985) [Childhood and society. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.] theory of psychosocial development in light of the
4–6-year-old’s drive towards self-regulation, control, and independence. The third is Rosenblatt’s (1978) [The reader, the text, the poem. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English] transactional nature of reading. 相似文献
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Anne-Marie Nu?ez Elizabeth Murakami Ramalho Kimberley K. Cuero 《Innovative Higher Education》2010,35(3):177-190
Three female tenure-track faculty members at a Hispanic-Serving Institution explored how their cultural backgrounds inform
their pedagogical approaches toward equity. They drew upon Mills’s (1959) and Collins’s (1993) frameworks to examine how their personal biographies, local social contexts, and broader systemic institutions affect their
teaching processes for diverse students. These teaching processes include limiting assumptions about students, encouraging
students to consider their own personal biographies in relation to the social world, welcoming students’ multiple modes of
expression, serving as role models, and challenging inequities in schooling. They conclude with recommendations for enhancing
inclusivity in student learning and faculty development. 相似文献
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Several studies have documented prospective teachers’ (PSTs) difficulties in offering instructional explanations. However,
less is known about PSTs’ learning to provide explanations. To address this gap, we trace changes in the explanations offered
by a purposeful sample of PSTs before and after a mathematics content/methods course sequence. Consistent with prior research,
our study reveals the limitations in PSTs’ explanations at their entrance to the course sequence. It also documents PSTs’
progress in providing explanations, thus providing existence proof that this practice is learnable. Using evidence from multiple
sources, we also propose a component entailed in this learning—learning how to unpack one’s thinking through the use of representations
as explanatory tools—and four factors associated with it, including PSTs’ subject-matter knowledge, active and deliberate
reflection on practice, productive images for engaging in this work, and productive dispositions about engaging in this practice.
We discuss the implications of our findings for teacher education and offer directions for future research. 相似文献
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A method for uncovering students’ thinking about thinking, specifically their meta-strategic knowledge, is explored within
the context of an ongoing, multi-year intervention designed to promote the development of students’ thinking dispositions.
The development of a concept-map instrument that classroom teachers can use and an analytic framework for interpreting students’
responses is presented. In a preliminary study, the concept map instrument is piloted to evaluate changes in students’ conceptions
of thinking after a year’s participation in classrooms where their teachers actively sought to make thinking more visible
by noticing and naming the thinking observed as well as introducing and using thinking routines (Ritchhart and Perkins. Educational
Leadership, 65(5), 57–61 2008). Concept maps from 239 students from grades 3 through 11 were analyzed. Results suggest that students’ conceptions of thinking
do improve with age but also can be substantially developed through a classroom culture where thinking is modeled and rich
opportunities for thinking are present. The concept map instrument itself proved to be a robust instrument for uncovering
students’ thinking about thinking. 相似文献