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Aziz Choudry 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2010,5(2):423-434
In response to Richardson Bruna’s “Mexican immigrant transnational social capital and class transformation: examining the
role of peer mediation in insurgent science”, this paper draws on the author’s research on organizing, mobilization and knowledge
production among adult im/migrant workers in Canada. While appreciative of the content and concerns of Richardson Bruna’s
argument, the paper argues for a clearer position on tensions between agency and structure, and class and capitalist social
relations in which to contextualize the schooling of immigrant children in today’s US classrooms. In addition, it explores
some implications of Mignolo’s (2000) work on the geohistory of knowledge, notably his concept of ‘border thinking’ for teachers, teacher education, and curricula.
Finally, the article suggests the potential of methodological frameworks and approaches of institutional ethnography (Smith
1987), political activist ethnography (Frampton et al. 2006) and global ethnography (Burawoy 2000) to inform research into this field. 相似文献
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Chung-Yuan Hsu Chin-Chung Tsai Jyh-Chong Liang 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2011,20(5):482-493
Educational researchers have suggested that computer games have a profound influence on students’ motivation, knowledge construction,
and learning performance, but little empirical research has targeted preschoolers. Thus, the purpose of the present study
was to investigate the effects of implementing a computer game that integrates the prediction-observation-explanation (POE)
strategy (White and Gunstone in Probing understanding. Routledge, New York, 1992) on facilitating preschoolers’ acquisition of scientific concepts regarding light and shadow. The children’s alternative
conceptions were explored as well. Fifty participants were randomly assigned into either an experimental group that played
a computer game integrating the POE model or a control group that played a non-POE computer game. By assessing the students’
conceptual understanding through interviews, this study revealed that the students in the experimental group significantly
outperformed their counterparts in the concepts regarding “shadow formation in daylight” and “shadow orientation.” However,
children in both groups, after playing the games, still expressed some alternative conceptions such as “Shadows always appear
behind a person” and “Shadows should be on the same side as the sun.” 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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Christine Winberg 《Higher Education》2006,51(2):159-172
South African higher education institutions are increasingly under scrutiny to produce knowledge that is more relevant to
South Africa’s social and economic needs, more representative of the diversity of its knowledge producers, and more inclusive
of the variety of the sites where knowledge is produced. Only a small percentage of South Africans are graduates of universities
or technology institutes, and these graduates are not representative of the diversity of the South African population. As
a result there is a shortage of skills to address the country’s reconstruction and developmental needs. This places a burden
on higher education institutions to expand access to their programmes, and to ensure that their programmes are relevant to
the developmental context. Policy makers have found in the Gibbons [Gibbons, M., et al. (1994). The New Production of Knowledge. The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies. London Sage Publishers] thesis on ‘Mode 2 knowledge production’ a rationale for the transformation of higher education through
the inclusion of practices which are less abstract, less discipline bound and closer to those processes which characterise
the diversity and distribution of knowledge production in the wider society. Nowotny et al. [Nowtony et al. (2001). Re-thinking Science. Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty. Cambridge: Polity Press.] have taken Gibbons’ thesis further and have described society itself as becoming increasingly
‘Mode 2’. In a Mode 2 society, differentiation is replaced with integration, and networks of knowledge producers conduct their
work in transdisciplinary teams across widely distributed sites. Such ‘transgressivity’ both pushes knowledge production systems
forward and distributes and diffuses knowledge more widely throughout society. In this paper, it is argued that there is a
need for higher education practitioners to engage critically – and constructively – with the knowledge bases of policy directives
to ensure that the new teaching and learning processes and systems adequately prepare students for the complexity and diversity
of South African society, and enable them to contribute meaningfully to its reconstruction and development. 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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Hayo Siemsen 《Science & Education》2012,21(4):447-484
George Sarton had a strong influence on modern history of science. The method he pursued throughout his life was the method
he had discovered in Ernst Mach’s Mechanics when he was a student in Ghent. Sarton was in fact throughout his life implementing a research program inspired by the epistemology
of Mach. Sarton in turn inspired many others (James Conant, Thomas Kuhn, Gerald Holton, etc.). What were the origins of these
ideas in Mach and what can this origin tell us about the history of science and science education nowadays? Which ideas proved
to be successful and which ones need to be improved upon? The following article will elaborate the epistemological questions,
which Darwin’s “Origin” raised concerning human knowledge and scientific knowledge and which led Mach to adapt the concept
of what is “empirical” in contrast to metaphysical a priori assumptions a second time after Galileo. On this basis Sarton
proposed “genesis and development” as the major goal of Isis. Mach had elaborated this epistemology in La Connaissance et l’Erreur (Knowledge and Error), which Sarton read in 1913 (Hiebert 1905/1976; de Mey 1984). Accordingly for Sarton, history becomes not only a subject of science, but a method of science education. Culture—and science
as part of culture—is a result of a genetic process. History of science shapes and is shaped by science and science education
in a reciprocal process. Its epistemology needs to be adapted to scientific facts and the philosophy of science. Sarton was
well aware of the need to develop the history of science and the philosophy of science along the lines of this reciprocal
process. It was a very fruitful basis, but a specific part of it, Sarton did not elaborate further, namely the psychology
of science education. This proved to be a crucial missing element for all of science education in Sarton’s succession, especially
in the US. Looking again at the origins of the central questions in the thinking of Mach, which provided the basis and gave
rise to Sarton’s research program, will help in resolving current epistemic and methodological difficulties, contradictions
and impasses in science education influenced by Sarton. The difficulties in science education will prevail as long as the
omissions from their Machian origins are not systematically recovered and reintegrated. 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
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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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Stuart Fleischer 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2011,6(1):235-241
In their treatise, Mitchell and Mueller extend David Orr’s notions of ecological literacy (2005) to include biophilia (Wilson
1984) and ecojustice (Mueller 2009). In his writings, David Orr claims that the US is in an “ecological crisis” and that this stems from a crisis of education.
The authors outline Orr’s theory of ecological literacy as a lens to understand Earth’s ecology in view of long-term survival.
In their philosophical analysis of Orr’s theory, Mitchell and Mueller argue that we move beyond the “shock doctrine” perspective
of environmental crisis. By extending Orr’s concept of ecological literacy to include biophilia and ecojustice, and by recognizing
the importance of experience-in-learning, the authors envision science education as a means to incorporate values and morals
within a sustainable ideology of educational reform. Through this forum, I reflect on the doxastic logic and certain moral
and social epistemological concepts that may subsequently impact student understanding of ecojustice, biophilia, and moral
education. In addition, I assert the need to examine myriad complexities of assisting learners to become ecologically literate
at the conceptual and procedural level (Bybee in Achieving scientific literacy: from purposes to practices, Heinemann Educational
Books, Portsmouth, 1997), including what Kegan (In over our heads: the mental demands of modern life, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1994) refers to as “Third Order” and “Fourth Order” thinking: notions of meaning-construction or meaning-organizational capacity
to understand good stewardship of the Earth’s environment. Learners who are still in the process of developing reflective
and metacognitive skills “cannot have internal conversation about what is actual versus what is possible, because no ‘self’
is yet organized that can put these two categories together” (p. 34). Mitchell and Mueller indicate that middle school learners
should undergo a transformation in order to reflect critically about the environment with a view toward determining critical
truths about the world. However, if this audience lacks “selective, interpretive, executive, construing capacities” (Kegan
in In over our heads: The mental demands of modern life, 1994, p. 29), assimilating the notions of ecojustice and biophia may be problematic. 相似文献
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Street Smarts vs. Book Smarts: The Figured World of Smartness in the Lives of Marginalized, Urban Youth 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Beth Hatt 《The Urban Review》2007,39(2):145-166
How smartness is defined within schools contributes to low academic achievement by poor and racial/ethnic minority students.
Using Holland et al.’s (1998) [Holland, D., Lachicotte, W., Skinner, D., & Cain, C. (Eds.) (1998). Identity and agency in cultural worlds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.] concept of “figured worlds,” this paper explores the “figuring” of smartness through
the perspectives of marginalized youth. The youth made key distinctions between being book smart vs. street smart. This distinction
is a direct challenge by the youth to the dominant discourse of smartness or “book smarts” as it operates in schools. To the
youth, “street smarts” are more important because they are connected to being able to maneuver through structures in their
lives such as poverty, the police, street culture, and abusive “others.” This distinction is key because street smarts stress
agency in countering social structures whereas, for many of the youth, book smarts represented those structures, such as receiving a high school diploma. Implications for schools and pedagogy are discussed.
B.A. earned from Indiana University – Bloomington, Masters and Ph.D. earned from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Beth Hatt Fis an Assistant Professor of Educational Administration and Foundations at Illinois State University where she
teaches research methods and social foundations of education. Her current research explores smartness as a cultural construct
in schools and the media. 相似文献
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The purpose of the study is to compare problem based learning (PBL) and lecture-based learning (LBL) in Hong Kong secondary
students’ science achievement. Secondary One students were divided into two groups: group A (n = 37), was taught two topics: “Human Reproduction” and “Density” through PBL; group B (n = 38) was taught the same topics by LBL. Multiple choice questions and short structured response items were used to assess
students’ academic performance. Pre and post tests were categorized into three domains: knowledge, comprehension and application
according to Bloom’s Taxonomy (Bloom 1956). The results of this study suggest first that PBL is at least as effective as LBL in gaining the knowledge required to achieve
the syllabus’ learning objectives; secondly, the PBL group shows a significant improvement in students’ comprehension and
application of knowledge over an extended time. Seemingly, PBL is favored for knowledge retention compared to a more conventional
teaching approach, by these early adolescent children in Hong Kong. An ongoing longitudinal study on students’ interactions
will further determine whether students taught through PBL develop improved learning in relation to high order skills, in
a local situation which still tends to focus on factual recall but where higher skills are being demanded by systemic reform. 相似文献
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Justification and Persuasion about Cloning: Arguments in Hwang’s Paper and Journalistic Reported Versions 总被引：4，自引：4，他引：0
María Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre Marta Federico-Agraso 《Research in Science Education》2009,39(3):331-347
We examine the argumentative structure of Hwang et al.’s (2004) paper about human somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT, or ‘therapeutic cloning’), contrasted with four Journalistic Reported
Versions (JRV) of it, and with students’ summaries of one JRV. As the evaluation of evidence is one of the critical features
of argumentation (Jiménez-Aleixandre 2008), the analysis focuses on the use of evidence, drawing from instruments to analyze written argumentation (Kelly et al. 2008) and from studies about the structure of empirical research reports (Swales 2001). The objectives are: 1) To examine the use of evidence and the argumentative structure of Hwang et al.’s Science, 303: 1669–1674 (2004) original paper in terms of the criteria: a) pertinence of the evidence presented to the claims; b) sufficiency of the evidence
for the purpose of supporting the claims; and c) coordination of the evidence across epistemic levels. 2) To explore how the
structure of Hwang’s paper translates into the JRV and into university students’ perceptions about the evidence supporting
the claims. The argumentative structure of Hwang’s paper is such that its apparently ostensible main claim about NT constitutes
a justification for a second claim about its therapeutic applications, for which no evidence is offered. However, this second
claim receives prominent treatment in the JRV and in the students’ summaries. Implications for promoting critical reading
in the classroom are discussed. 相似文献
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Hagar Gal 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2011,78(2):183-203
“From Another Perspective” is a year-long course for teachers of mathematics that is designed to enhance teachers’ awareness
of the way that their students think when they are experiencing difficulties in geometry. It also aims at equipping teachers
with tools needed to analyze and cope with Problematic Learning Situations in geometry (Gal & Linchevski, 2000). This paper reviews the rationale, content, and approach of the course, which is characterized as “the Back and Forth model”.
It then reports on a study that tracked the changes that course participants (pre- and in-service mathematics teachers) passed
through. The paper describes the results of the case study of Eti, one of the participants, who taught mathematics to junior
high school students. The findings suggest that Eti was helped to achieving the goals of: (1) expanding and deepening her
understanding of students’ ways of thinking; (2) increasing her awareness of her students’ processes of thinking in order
to identify their difficulties; (3) equipping her with appropriate tools to analyze and cope with such difficulties; and (4)
enhancing her ability to retrieve and utilize this knowledge while making instructional decisions. Conclusions and open questions
for further study are drawn. 相似文献
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This paper reports multi-layered analyses of student learning in a science classroom using the theoretical lens of Distributed
Cognition (Hollan et al. 1999; Hutchins 1995). Building on the insights generated from previous research employing Distributed Cognition, the particular focus of this
study has been placed on the “public space of interaction” (Alac and Hutchins 2004, p. 639) that includes both participants’ interaction with each other and their interaction with artefacts in their environment.
In this paper, a lesson from an Australian science classroom was examined in detail, in which a class of grade-seven students
were investigating the scientific theme of gravity by designing pendulums. The video-stimulated post-lesson interviews with
both the teacher and the student groups offered complementary accounts (Clarke 2001a) that assisted the interpretation of the classroom data. The findings of this study provide supporting evidence to demonstrate
the capacity of Distributed Cognition for advancing our understanding of the nature of learning in science classrooms. 相似文献
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Kristen Intemann 《Science & Education》2008,17(10):1065-1079
Recent feminist philosophers of science have argued that feminist values can contribute to rational decisions about which
scientific theories to accept. On this view, increasing the number of feminist scientists is important for ensuring rational
and objective theory acceptance. The Underdetermination Thesis has played a key role in arguments for this view [Anderson
(1995) Hypatia 10(3), 50–84; Hankinson Nelson (1990) Who knows? From Quine to a feminist empiricism. Temple University Press, Philadelphia; Longino (1990) Science as social knowledge. Princeton University Press, Princeton; Longino (2002) The fate of knowledge. Princeton University Press, Princeton; Kourany (2003) Philosophy of Science 70, 1–14]. This thesis is alleged to open an argumentative “gap” between evidence and theory acceptance and provide a rationale
for filling the gap with feminist values. While I agree with the conclusion that feminist values can contribute to rational
decisions about which theories to accept, I argue that the Underdetermination Thesis cannot support this claim. First, using
earlier arguments [Laudan (1990) in: R. Giere (ed) Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science, vol 14, pp 267–297; Slezak (1991) International Studies in Philosophy of Science 5, 241–256; Pinnick (1994) Philosophy of Science 61, 664–657] I show that Underdetermination cannot, by itself, establish that feminist values should fill the gap in theory
acceptance. Secondly, I argue that the very use of the Underdetermination Thesis concedes that feminist values are extra-scientific,
a-rational, factors in theory acceptance. This concession denies feminists grounds to explain why their values contribute
to rational scientific reasoning. Finally, I propose two alternative ways to explain how feminist values can contribute to
rational theory acceptance that do not rely on Underdetermination.
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In the present experimental study, the effects of the cooperative learning method supported by multiple intelligence theory
(CLMI) on elementary school fourth grade students’ academic achievement and retention towards the mathematics course were
investigated. The participants of the study were 150 students who were divided into two experimental (used CLMI) and two control
groups (used traditional method). “Mathematics Achievement Test,” “Teele Inventory for Multiple Intelligences” and “Personal
Information Form” were used as the measurement instruments of the study. The findings of this research have indicated that
CLMI has a more significant effect on academic achievement than the traditional method. Yet, regarding the retention scores,
CLMI has not significant effect on retention. 相似文献
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George E. Glasson 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2011,6(2):327-335
Environmental educators are challenged by how to teach children about global environmental crisis such as the Gulf oil spill,
which only serves to engender children’s fears and apprehensions about the negative impact of humans on ecosystems. Eduardo
Dopico and Eva Garcia-Vazquez’s article presents an interesting context from which to analyze and reflect on the connections
between local and global environmental education issues. The authors’ study involves student researchers in actively learning
about place-based, sustainable agricultural practices in rural Spain that are passed down through generations. These ecofriendly,
culturally mediated farming practices, referred to as “traditional” by the farmers, were contrasted to “modern” practices
that are used throughout market-based globalized economy. The connection between local (traditional) and global (modern) practices
became very important in the reflections and learning of the student participants about sustainability and ecojustice issues
associated with traditional farming. Students learned from the local farmers a positive, non-dualistic approach to sustainable
agriculture in which human activity and culture is connected to ecological sustainability. Further, the students’ active research
of sustainable and culturally medicated agricultural practices at the local level provided a frame of reference to understand
global environmental crises. 相似文献
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Alex Pomson 《Education and Information Technologies》2008,13(2):147-163
This paper reports findings from a study of LookJed, the oldest and largest on-line forum for Computer Mediated Discussion
among individuals interested in Jewish education. The study adopted a “cyber-ethnographic” approach, with postings to the
forum seen as “acts of communication” that reveal what is important to their authors. An interest in exploring similarities
between forum conversations and those in teachers’ lounges led to an investigation of Herring’s claim that most listservs
do not include discussion at all, only the trading of information. This investigation found that active forum participants
generally use the forum for discrete purposes, most commonly to exchange information about “subject matter” or “teaching material”,
less commonly to exchange opinions and ideas, and rarely to do both. Integrating an analysis of patterns of contribution with
an examination of their discursive content reveals six preeminent “types” among the population of contributors, each of whom
participates in the forum in different ways and acts with different purposes. Although this typology is at best suggestive
and needs to be tested against other listserv cases, its easy identification suggests that in order to better understand the
cultures of virtual forums, it is important to pursue a more variegated characterization of listserv participants and their
motivations than has typically been the case in CMD research where users are most frequently identified as either lurkers
or fanatics, or as active or passive participants. 相似文献