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Tsunghui Tu 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2006,33(4):245-251
This study investigated preschool science environments in 20 preschool classrooms (N=20) in 13 midwestern child care centers. By operationalizing Neuman’s concept of “sciencing,” this study used The Preschool Classroom Science Materials/Equipment Checklist, the Preschool Classroom Science Activities Checklist, and the Preschool Teacher Classroom/Sciencing Form to analyze the availability of science materials, equipment, and activities for preschoolers in the classroom. Each teacher was videotaped for two consecutive days during free play time. The study showed that half of the preschool classrooms had a science area. The activities that the preschool teachers engaged were mostly unrelated to science activities (86.8%), 4.5% of the activities were related to formal sciencing, and 8.8% of the activities were related to informal sciencing. 相似文献
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Alejandro J. Gallard Mart��nez 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2011,6(3):719-723
This forum considers argumentation as a means of science teaching in South African schools, through the integration of indigenous
knowledge (IK). It addresses issues raised in Mariana G. Hewson and Meshach B. Ogunniyi’s paper entitled: Argumentation-teaching
as a method to introduce indigenous knowledge into science classrooms: opportunities and challenges. As well as Peter Easton’s:
Hawks and baby chickens: cultivating the sources of indigenous science education; and, Femi S. Otulaja, Ann Cameron and Audrey
Msimanga’s: Rethinking argumentation-teaching strategies and indigenous knowledge in South African science classrooms. The
first topic addressed is that implementation of argumentation in the science classroom becomes a complex endeavor when the
tensions between students’ IK, the educational infrastructure (allowance for teacher professional development, etc.) and local
belief systems are made explicit. Secondly, western styles of debate become mitigating factors because they do not always
adequately translate to South African culture. For example, in many instances it is more culturally acceptable in South Africa
to build consensus than to be confrontational. Thirdly, the tension between what is “authentic science” and what is not becomes
an influencing factor when a tension is created between IK and western science. Finally, I argue that the thrust of argumentation
is to set students up as “scientist-students” who will be considered through a deficit model by judging their habitus and
cultural capital. Explicitly, a “scientist-student” is a student who has “learned,” modeled and thoroughly assimilated the
habits of western scientists, evidently—and who will be judged by and held accountable for their demonstration of explicit
related behaviors in the science classroom. I propose that science teaching, to include argumentation, should consist of “listening
carefully” (radical listening) to students and valuing their language, culture, and learning as a model for
“science for all”. 相似文献
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Scientific Habits of Mind in Virtual Worlds 总被引:8,自引:6,他引:2
In today’s increasingly “flat” world of globalization (Friedman 2005), the need for a scientifically literate citizenry has grown more urgent. Yet, by some measures, we have done a poor job
at fostering scientific habits of mind in schools. Recent research on informal games-based learning indicates that such technologies and the communities they evoke
may be one viable alternative—not as a substitute for teachers and classrooms, but as an alternative to textbooks and science
labs. This paper presents empirical evidence about the potential of games for fostering scientific habits of mind. In particular,
we examine the scientific habits of mind and dispositions that characterize online discussion forums of the massively multiplayer
online game World of Warcraft. Eighty-six percent of the forum discussions were posts engaged in “social knowledge construction” rather than social banter.
Over half of the posts evidenced systems based reasoning, one in ten evidenced model-based reasoning, and 65% displayed an
evaluative epistemology in which knowledge is treated as an open-ended process of evaluation and argument. 相似文献
4.
Marilyn Fleer 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2008,3(3):781-786
“Culturally-Sensitive Schooling” as proposed by Brayboy and Castagno offers an important way of thinking about the relations
between formal and informal science learning and between Western and Indigenous science. The constructivist framework adopted
by Brayboy and Castagno in their discussions is consistent with the theoretical approach traditionally used by many researchers
and scholars interested in science learning. In this article I explore the basic concepts introduced in their paper, but use
a different theoretical lens for explicating concept formation. Through a cultural-historical reading of “Culturally Sensitive
Schooling,” different insights can be gained about the relations between everyday informal learning and schooled learning
in science. I argue that dialectical logic is more productive for re-theorising science teaching and learning in culturally
diverse communities.
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Yusef Waghid 《Higher Education》2006,51(3):315-328
In this article I argue that the use of practical reasoning in university classrooms is necessary to establish conditions
under which university teachers and students can move beyond the dominant “transmission mode” of education (teaching and learning).
This mode of education had been, and in many cases remains to be prevalent in several (South African) university classrooms.
I argue what it could mean for university teachers and students to reason together with one another in classroom practices.
Central to reasoning together is the idea of deliberation which provides opportunities for teachers and students to experience
“intelligent action” (Biesta 2004a) that could enhance educational problem solving in (and beyond) university classrooms. 相似文献
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David Geelan Penny J. Gilmer Sonya N. Martin 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2006,1(4):721-744
This forum discussion focuses on seven themes drawn from Sonya’s fascinating paper: the terminology of “cogenerative dialogues,”
the roles of participants and their power relations within such dialogues, the use of metaphor and analogy in the paper, science
and science education for all students, the ways in which students’ expectations about learning change in innovative classrooms,
teacher research and the “theory-practice gap,” and the tension between conducting cogenerative dialogues with individual
students or with whole classes. These themes by no means exhaust the ideas in Sonya’s paper, but we feel that they have allowed
us to explore the classroom research she reports, and to extend our discussion beyond the paper to explore some of these themes
more broadly. 相似文献
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David R. Olson 《Educational Psychology Review》2012,24(1):9-11
As a summary of current advances in developmental psychology, the above article makes some useful contributions. As a contribution
to educational policy and practice, it is limited if not a failure for two reasons. It fails to come to grips with the real
demands of living classrooms, and second, it fails to grasp the actual subjective lives of the children taught. The gap between
science and practice is now as large as it was when John Dewey first called attention to “the whole child” and a pragmatic
approach to knowledge and thinking. 相似文献
8.
Felicia M. Moore 《Research in Science Education》2008,38(5):589-610
Using multiple theoretical frameworks, reflective writings and interviews, this study explores preservice elementary teachers’
emerging identities as science teachers and how this identity is connected to notions of critical agency and a stance toward
social justice. The study addresses two central questions pertaining to preservice teachers’ conceptions as “agents of change”
and how their perceptions as change agents frame their science teacher identities and understanding of teaching science in
urban elementary classrooms. Their identity in the moment as elementary preservice teachers—not yet teachers—influences how
they view themselves as teachers and how much agency or power they feel they have as agents of change in science classrooms.
Findings suggest that science teacher education must play a more immediate, fundamental and emancipatory role in preparing
preservice teachers in developing science teacher identities and a stance toward social justice. 相似文献
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Mathematics-for-Teaching: an Ongoing Investigation of the Mathematics that Teachers (Need to) Know 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
In this article we offer a theoretical discussion of teachers' mathematics-for-teaching, using complexity science as a framework
for interpretation. We illustrate the discussion with some teachers' interactions around mathematics that arose in the context
of an in-service session. We use the events from that session to illustrate four intertwining aspects of teachers' mathematics-for-teaching.
We label these aspects “mathematical objects,” “curriculum structures,” “classroom collectivity,” and “subjective understanding”.
Drawing on complexity science, we argue that these phenomena are nested in one another and that they obey similar dynamics,
albeit on very different time scales. We conjecture (1) that a particular fluency with these four aspects is important for
mathematics teaching and (2) that these aspects might serve as appropriate emphases for courses in mathematics intended for
teachers. 相似文献
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This forum explores and expands on Ben-Zvi Assaraf, Eshach, Orion, and Alamour’s article titled “Cultural Differences and
Students’ Spontaneous Models of the Water Cycle: A Case Study of Jewish and Bedouin Children in Israel” by examining how indigenous
knowledge is appropriated in science classrooms; how students from indigenous students’ experiences are more complex than
many non-indigenous students; and how science and globalization complicates the preservation of indigenous knowledge. In this
forum we suggest that research on indigenous knowledge be examined through the lens of the locally situated contexts and the
extent to which globalization hinders this kind of knowledge in the name of value neutral scientific knowledge. We finally
suggest that research in indigenous communities has to be more intentional and respectful, and teachers need to rethink how
useful and meaningful science learning can be for indigenous students. 相似文献
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The potential of informal sources of science learning to supplement and interact with formal classroom science is receiving
increasing recognition and attention in the research literature. In this study, a phenomenographic approach was used to determine
changes in levels of understanding of 27 grade 7 primary school children as a result of a visit to an interactive science
centre. The results showed that most students did change their levels of understanding of aspects of the concept “sound”.
The study also provides information which will be of assistance to teachers on the levels of understanding displayed by students
on this concept.
Specializations: informal science learning, science curriculum
Specializations: science education, science teacher education, conceptual change, learning environments. 相似文献
12.
Simulated Sustainable Societies: Students’ Reflections on Creating Future Cities in Computer Games 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
The empirical study, in this article, involved 42 students (ages 14–15), who used the urban simulation computer game SimCity
4 to create models of sustainable future cities. The aim was to explore in what ways the simulated “real” worlds provided
by this game could be a potential facilitator for science learning contexts. The topic investigated is in what way interactions
in this gaming environment, and reflections about these interactions, can form a context where the students deal with real
world problems, and where they can contextualise and apply their scientific knowledge. Focus group interviews and video recordings
were used to gather data on students’ reflections on their cities, and on sustainable development. The findings indicate that
SimCity 4 actually contributes to creating meaningful educational situations in science classrooms, and that computer games
can constitute an important artefact that may facilitate contextualisation and make students’ use of science concepts and
theories more explicit. 相似文献
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Beth Herbel-Eisenmann David Wagner Viviana Cortes 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2010,75(1):23-42
In this article, we introduce the lexical bundle, defined by corpus linguists as a group of three or more words that frequently
recur together, in a single group, in a particular register (Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, & Finegan, 2006; Cortes, English for Specific Purposes 23:397–423, 2004). Attention to lexical bundles helps to explore hegemonic practices in mathematics classrooms because lexical bundles play
an important role in structuring discourse and are often treated as “common sense” ways of interacting. We narrow our findings
and discussion to a particular type of lexical bundle (called a “stance bundle” or bundles that relate to feelings, attitudes,
value judgments, or assessments) because it was the most significant type found. Through comparing our corpus from secondary
mathematics classrooms with two other corpora (one from university classrooms (not including mathematics classrooms) and one
from conversations), we show that most of the stance bundles were particular to secondary mathematics classrooms. The stance
bundles are interpreted through the lens of interpersonal positioning, drawing on ideas from systemic functional linguistics.
We conclude by suggesting additional research that might be done, discussing limitations of this work, and pointing out that
the findings warrant further attention to interpersonal positioning in mathematics classrooms. 相似文献
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Wendy C. Crone Sharon L. Dunwoody Raelyn K. Rediske Steven A. Ackerman Greta M. Zenner Petersen Ronald A. Yaros 《Innovative Higher Education》2011,36(5):291-304
We present results from a course, “Informal Science Education for Scientists: A Practicum,” co-taught to graduate students
in STEM-related fields by a scientist/engineer and a social scientist/humanist. This course provides a structured framework
and experiential learning about informal science education during a semester-long experience. The data collected across six
years of the course (11 ≤ n ≤ 16 for each) provide strong evidence that the course has been effective in encouraging graduate
students in STEM-related fields to feel more skilled at and confident with informal science education. Details are provided
as to how manipulation of the course structure (i.e. making it project-based, emphasizing understanding audiences, stressing
the iterative nature of design, and increasing evaluation research training) influenced the student outcomes. 相似文献
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Filippo Camerota 《Science & Education》2006,15(2-4):323-334
This article explores the transmission of practical knowledge in the XV and XVI centuries. According to cosmographer Egnatio
Danti, optics and other mathematical sciences had “been banished” from the main philosophical schools of his period, and “the
little which remains to us is limited to some practical aspects learned from the mechanical artificers”. The “mechanical artificers”
were architects, painters and surveyors whose mathematical training constitutes the subject dealt with in this article. The
context of Danti’s remark was the letter to the “Accademici del Disegno” of Perugia which introduce his Italian translation
of Euclid’s Optics. After the great Medieval season of optical studies, in effect, this science progressed mainly through its practical applications,
especially through “that part of perspective which pertains to painting” (Piero della Francesca), and through the spread of
methods and instruments for measuring by sight. 相似文献
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Margaret Eisenhart 《Research in Science Education》2000,30(1):43-55
Relying on ideas from practice theory and critical autobiography, I use this article first to tell, and then to analyse, a
story about trying to publish a book whose contents are in some ways marginal to what is normally considered science or science
education. During the publishing process, what counts as science got tangled up with what counts as “credible” science, “marketable”
literature, and academic competence. As a result, a book and a person (me) dedicated to expanding the boundaries of science
also became contributors to those very same boundaries. 相似文献
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Individuals and Leadership in an Australian Secondary Science Department: A Qualitative Study 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Wayne Melville John Wallace Anthony Bartley 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2007,16(6):463-472
In this article, we consider the complex and dynamic inter-relationships between individual science teachers, the social space
of their work and their dispositions towards teacher leadership. Research into the representation of school science departments
through individual science teachers is scarce. We explore the representations of four individual teachers to the assertions
of teacher leadership proposed by Silva et al. (Teach Coll Rec, 102(4):779–804, 2000). These representations, expressed during
regular science department meetings, occur in the social space of Bourdieu’s “field” and are a reflection of the “game” of
science education being played within the department. This departmentally centred space suggests an important implication
when considering the relationship between subject departments and their schools. The development of an individual’s representation
of teacher leadership and the wider “field” of science education appears to shape the individual towards promoting their own
sense of identity as a teacher of science, rather than as a teacher within a school. Our work suggests that for these individuals,
the important “game” is science education, not school improvement. Consequently, the subject department may be a missing link
between efforts to improve schools and current organizational practices. 相似文献
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Quality Assurance in UK Higher Education: Issues of Trust, Control, Professional Autonomy and Accountability 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Andreas Hoecht 《Higher Education》2006,51(4):541-563
This article explores the issues of trust, control, professional autonomy and accountability in higher education quality assurance
in the UK. The main part of this article is conceptual, but it includes results from semi-structured interviews with academic
staff that were conducted at two “new university” business schools. Both institutions are broadly similar in their key characteristics
and have experienced a transformation to university status in the early 1990s. The article argues that there has been a change
from informal “light-touch” quality control systems based on local practices and a significant amount of trust and professional
autonomy in the early 1990s to a highly prescribed process of audit-based quality control today. The article argues that accountability
and transparency are important principles that academics should wholeheartedly embrace, but that the audit format adopted
in the UK introduces a one-way accountability and provides “rituals of verification” (Power 1997) instead of fostering trust,
has high opportunity costs and may well be detrimental to innovative teaching and learning. 相似文献
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This article sheds light on views held by actors who enjoy a certain degree of institutional legitimacy for “talking about
science,” either as practitioners in the field of science or as guidance counsellors working with youths interested in having
a science-related career. One hundred and seven scientists and technologists who worked either in a university or industrial
research centre and 182 guidance counsellors working in high school settings participated in our survey; the main instrument
for data collection was a questionnaire developed using the bank of items from “VOSTS.” Excepting a few aspects of the production
of scientific knowledge, the predominant tendency suggests that both professional groups share a relatively similar discursive
outlook on science—an outlook which presents a “family resemblance” with the usual school rhetoric on the exceptional status
of science. 相似文献
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Integrating History of Science in Science Education through Historical Microworlds to Promote Conceptual Change 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This paper proposes a new way to integrate history of science in science education to promote conceptual change by introducing the notion of historical microworld, which is a computer-based interactive learning environment respecting historic conceptions. In this definition, “interactive” means that the user can act upon the virtual environment by changing some parameters to see what ensues. “Environment respecting historic conceptions” means that the “world” has been programmed to respect the conceptions of past scientists or philosophers. Three historical microworlds in the field of mechanics are presented in this article: an Aristotelian microworld respecting Aristotle’s conceptions about movement, a Buridanian microworld respecting the theory of impetus and, finally, a Newtonian microworld respecting Galileo’s conceptions and Newton’s laws of movement. 相似文献