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Christina V. Schwarz Jason Meyer Ajay Sharma 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2007,18(2):243-269
This study infused computer modeling and simulation tools in a 1-semester undergraduate elementary science methods course
to advance preservice teachers’ understandings of computer software use in science teaching and to help them learn important
aspects of pedagogy and epistemology. Preservice teachers used computer modeling and simulation tools within their own science
investigations; discussed general technology issues; and explored, evaluated, and taught their peers about a particular modeling
tool. Preservice teachers expanded their vision of the software available and the role that software can play in science teaching,
but desired fun, easy-to-use software with scientifically accurate information within a clear, familiar learning task. Such
conflict provided a fruitful platform for discussion and for potentially advancing preservice teachers’ pedagogical and epistemological
understandings.
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Christina V. SchwarzEmail: |
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Tamara Holmlund Nelson 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2008,19(3):235-254
Preservice teachers in a K–8 science methods course used guided video reflection to examine their interactions with children
during science teaching. This inquiry approach helped preservice teachers identify and respond to gaps between their beliefs
and intentions about teaching all children and their enactment of those beliefs. The experience of teaching a science lesson
and then viewing it multiple times through a critical framework provided an opportunity for preservice teachers to recognize
hidden assumptions, unexamined behaviors, and the unintentional meanings they may have conveyed to children. This encouraged
them to think more critically about their roles as teachers in creating spaces where all children have access to quality science
learning experiences.
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Tamara Holmlund NelsonEmail: |
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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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Julie A. Bianchini 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2008,3(4):799-810
This article examines Mary Budd Rowe’s groundbreaking and far-reaching contributions to science education. Rowe is best known
for her research on wait-time: the idea that teachers can improve the quality and length of classroom discussions by waiting
at least 3 s before and after student responses. Her wait-time research grew from and helped inform her staunch advocacy of
science education as inquiry; Rowe saw wonder and excitement as central to the teaching and learning of science. She spent
much of her professional life designing professional development experiences and innovative curriculum materials to help teachers,
particularly elementary school teachers, enact inquiry in their classrooms.
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Julie A. BianchiniEmail: |
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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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Christopher Emdin 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(1):239-254
In this article I explore research in urban science education inspired by the work of Kris Gutierrez in a paper based on her
2005 Scribner Award. It addresses key points in Gutierrez’s work by exploring theoretical frameworks for research and approaches
to teaching and research that expand the discourse on the agency of urban youth in corporate school settings. The work serves
as an overview of under-discussed approaches and theoretical frameworks to consider in teaching and conducting research with
marginalized urban youth in urban science classrooms.
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Julie Gainsburg 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2008,11(3):199-219
The mathematics-education community stresses the importance of real-world connections in teaching. The extant literature suggests
that in actual classrooms this practice is infrequent and cursory, but few studies have specifically examined whether, how,
and why teachers connect mathematics to the real world. In this study, I surveyed 62 secondary mathematics teachers about
their understanding and use of real-world connections, their purposes for making connections in teaching, and factors that
support and constrain this practice. I also observed 5 teachers making real-world connections in their classrooms and I conducted
follow-up interviews; these qualitative data are used to illuminate findings from the survey data. The results offer an initial
portrayal of the use of real-world connections in secondary mathematics classes and raise critical issues for more targeted
research, particularly in the area of teacher beliefs about how to help different kinds of students learn mathematics.
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Julie GainsburgEmail: |
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Middle grades science teachers need professional support in practice as they implement new inquiry-based science. Professional
development schools can provide this bottom-up support through connecting preservice and inservice teacher education programs
in classroom practice. In this study, coteaching arrangements with secondary science education majors provided additional
teachers in the classroom to support a materials-rich curriculum and the needed associated pedagogies. Science education majors
provided needed assistance in troubleshooting difficulties with the new curriculum. They also provided needed content knowledge
to support inquiry, along with creating moments and space for teachers to reflect on inquiry practice. Ongoing assistance
by preservice teachers allowed inservice teachers to progress from logistical concerns in implementing kit curriculum to concerns
regarding student learning and the supporting professional development.
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Charles J. EickEmail: |
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The Impact of an Engineering Design Curriculum on Science Reasoning in an Urban Setting 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Eli M. Silk Christian D. Schunn Mari Strand Cary 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2009,18(3):209-223
This study examines the use of engineering design to facilitate science reasoning in high-needs, urban classrooms. The Design
for Science unit utilizes scaffolds consistent with reform science instruction to assist students in constructing a design
solution to satisfy a need from their everyday lives. This provides a meaningful context in which students could reason scientifically.
Eighth grade students from two urban schools participated in the unit. Both schools contained large percentages of racial/ethnic
minority and economically disadvantaged students. Students demonstrated statistically significant improvement on a paper-and-pencil,
multiple-choice pre and post assessment. The results compare favorably with both a high-quality inquiry science unit and a
traditional textbook curriculum. Implications for the use of design-based curricula as a viable alternative for teaching science
reasoning in high-needs, urban settings are discussed.
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Eli M. SilkEmail: |
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Stephen M. Ritchie Gillian Kidman Tanya Vaughan 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2007,2(1):225-242
Members of particular communities produce and reproduce cultural practices. This is an important consideration for those teacher
educators who need to prepare appropriate learning experiences and programs for scientists, as they attempt to change careers
to science teaching. We know little about the transition of career-changing scientists as they encounter different contexts
and professional cultures, and how their changing identities might impact on their teaching practices. In this narrative inquiry
of the stories told by and shared between career-changing scientists in a teacher-preparation program, we identify cover stories
of science and teaching. More importantly, we show how uncovering these stories became opportunities for one of these scientists
to learn about what sorts of stories of science she tells or should tell in science classrooms and how these stories might
impact on her identities as a scientist–teacher in transition. We highlight self-identified contradictions and treat these
as resources for further professional learning. Suggestions for improving the teacher-education experiences of scientist–teachers
are made. In particular, teacher educators might consider the merits of creating opportunities for career-changing scientists
to share their stories and for these stories to be retold for different audiences.
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Tanya VaughanEmail: |
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Tim Rowland 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2008,69(2):149-163
This empirical paper considers the different purposes for which teachers use examples in elementary mathematics teaching,
and how well the actual examples used fit these intended purposes. For this study, 24 mathematics lessons taught by prospective
elementary school teachers were videotaped. In the spirit of grounded theory, the purpose of the analysis of these lessons
was to discover, and to construct theories around, the ways that these novice teachers could be seen to draw upon their mathematics
teaching knowledge-base in their lesson preparation and in their observed classroom instruction. A highly-pervasive dimension
of the findings was these teachers’ choice and use of examples. Four categories of uses of examples are identified and exemplified:
these are related to different kinds of teacher awareness.
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Tim RowlandEmail: |
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Distance education is a significant topic of discussion among faculty at all levels of education. This study produced evidence
regarding the attitudes toward three distance education delivery modes for science professional development. The study involved
94 elementary school teachers who were participating in a professional development project. The three distance education strategies
studied were live, interactive television (Live); videotape presentations with live wrap-around discussions (Video); and asynchronous,
Web-based sessions with streamed video presentations supported by interaction through discussion boards (Web). A repeated
measures design was used to analyze the attitudes of the study participants. Data on the participants’ attitudes toward their
distance education involvement were collected through the CTLSilhouette™ instrument.
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Leonard AnnettaEmail: |
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Exploring the contexts of urban science classrooms. Part 1: Investigating corporate and communal practices 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Christopher Emdin 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2007,2(2):319-350
In this paper, I discuss the existence of varying ideologies and perspectives within urban science classrooms and uncover
the importance of focusing on student and teacher practices as a means to bridge these disconnections. Specifically, I describe
the existence of corporate and communal ideologies and the dynamics that create the misalignment between groups that hold
allegiances to these varying belief systems. Utilizing three allied theoretical frames, this paper provides a multi layered
and timely analysis of the teaching of science in an urban high school in New York City. I conjoin Bourdieu’s sociocultural
theory, an analysis of social life through the use of the structure|agency dialectic, and a theorizing of corporate and communal
practice to embark on a journey into how African American and Latino/a students’ ways of knowing and being can be utilized
to meet the goal of improving their success in science.
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Christopher EmdinEmail: |
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This survey study explored high school science teachers’ challenges and needs specific to their growing English language learning
(ELL) student population. Thirty-three science teachers from 6 English as a Second language (ESL)-center high schools in central
Virginia participated in the survey. Issues surveyed were (a) strategies used by science teachers to accommodate ELL students’
special needs, (b) challenges they experienced, and (c) support and training necessary for effective ELL instruction. Results
suggest that language barriers as well as ELL students’ lack of science foundational knowledge challenged teachers most. Teachers
perceived that appropriate instructional materials and pedagogical training was most needed. The findings have implications
for science teacher preservice and inservice education in regard to working with language minority students.
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Jacqueline T. McDonnoughEmail: |
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Video has assumed an increasingly prominent role in teacher education, particularly in the form of the viewing of videotaped
class lessons by preservice teachers. Yet there is little research that confirms whether preservice teachers attend to the
aspects of the video(s) that teacher educators anticipate or desire. This article explores this issue and reports on the impact
of video viewing as a means to improve teachers’ ability to be observers of classroom practice. We utilized a pre- and post-test
design to measure the quantity and type of classroom events that preservice mathematics teachers noticed before and after
a teaching methods course where improving observation skills was an explicit goal. The results of the pre-assessment suggest
that preservice teachers generally do not enter teaching methods courses with well-developed observation skills. The post-assessment
indicates that the course led to significant increases in preservice teachers’ observation skills, particularly in teachers’
ability to notice features of the classroom environment, mathematical content of a lesson, and teacher and student communication
during a lesson.
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Jon R. StarEmail: |
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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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Ji Shen Patrick C. Gibbons John F. Wiegers Ann P. McMahon 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2007,18(3):431-459
We present a practical way of adapting and using four research-based assessments for different purposes in an electricity
and magnetism course for K-8 science teachers. The course is designed to accomplish conceptual change toward accepted scientific
conceptions as well as introducing teachers to materials and activities appropriate for their classrooms. Our data support
that using the research-based tests to identify alternative conceptions and discuss test results with teachers is a promising
way to use the knowledge of alternative conceptions in professional development. We also identify some mismatches between
the research of conceptual change and its use in programs of professional development.
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Ji ShenEmail: |
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This study investigates pre-service teachers’ perceptions of urban schools. We asked 41 pre-service teachers, mostly white
and female, to report their perceptions of four aspects of urban schools (appearance and atmosphere, resources, students,
and teachers) and identify the sources of their perceptions. We analyze the data qualitatively to understand how they perceive
urban schools and quantitatively to determine group trends in their perceptions. Findings reveal that their perceptions of
urban schools are complex, with negative and positive impressions of selected aspects of urban schools. Implications of these
findings for teacher education, in particular, urban field placements and curriculum, are explored.
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Jean Ann (Corresponding author)Email: |