Re Structuring Science Education

Author : Wolff-Michael Roth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789048139965

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Re/Structuring Science Education by Wolff-Michael Roth Pdf

Since its beginnings, science education has been under the influence of psychological theories of knowing and learning, while in more recent years, social constructivist and sociological frameworks have also begun to emerge. With little work being done on showing how the perspectives of these separate approaches might be integrated, this work aims to plug the gap. The book helps lay the groundwork for reuniting sociological and psychological perspectives on the knowing, learning, and teaching of science. Featuring a range of integrative efforts beginning with simple conversation, the chapters here include not only articles but also commentaries that engage with other papers, as well as a useful running narrative that, from the introduction to the epilogue, contextualizes the book and its sections. Specific attention is given to cultural-historical activity theory, which already offers an integration of psychological and cultural-historical (sociological) perspectives on collectively motivated human activities. A number of chapters, as well as the contextualizing narrative, explicitly use this theory as a framework for rethinking science education to achieve the reunification that is the goal of this work. All the contributors to this volume have produced texts that contribute to the effort of overcoming the extant divide between sociological and psychological approaches to science education research and practice. From very different positions—gender, culture, race—they provide valuable insights to reuniting approaches in both theory and method in the field. As an ensemble, the contributions constitute a rich menu of ideas from which new forms of science education can emerge.

Author : Richard Alan Duschl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : 0807730068

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Author : Bosch, Chantelle,Laubscher, Dorothy Joy,Kyei-Blankson, Lydia
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799869429

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Re-Envisioning and Restructuring Blended Learning for Underprivileged Communities by Bosch, Chantelle,Laubscher, Dorothy Joy,Kyei-Blankson, Lydia Pdf

Challenges in the educational arena are not new phenomena. However, with the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and educators have been made even more aware of the need for a paradigm shift in education. Blended learning, as opposed to fully online learning or traditional face-to-face teaching, has been well-researched and has been found to have the potential to provide better educational solutions in challenging contexts. These contexts range from pandemic situations where social distancing is the order of the day to financial and time constraints regarding full-time study, as well as limited physical capacity at institutions. Blended learning solutions are often designed for resourceful institutions and cannot be easily implemented in developing countries and in communities where resources are limited. Typical issues like connectivity, accessibility, lack of suitable devices, and affordability need to be taken into consideration and in cognizance of blended learning interventions. These challenges are often neglected in blended learning research but are critical discussions to be had. Re-Envisioning and Restructuring Blended Learning for Underprivileged Communities shares how institutions in the developing world and less privileged communities have re-imagined and restructured blended education to enhance teaching and learning for underprivileged communities. This book aims to address blended learning solutions across institutional, program, course, and activity levels. The chapters will cover a variety of learning environments, from rural settings to less developed countries and more, and explore the programs and courses designed to improve student success and accessibility in diverse student populations. This book is ideally intended for teachers, administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in blended learning opportunities in less-privileged settings and to underserved and marginalized populations.

Author : Romuald Normand,Min Liu,Luís Miguel Carvalho,Dalila Andrade Oliveira,Louis LeVasseur
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811082795

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Education Policies and the Restructuring of the Educational Profession by Romuald Normand,Min Liu,Luís Miguel Carvalho,Dalila Andrade Oliveira,Louis LeVasseur Pdf

The book analyzes worldwide changes in school organization and the teaching profession, and how the profession has been impacted by education policies that promote assessments and accountability. It also identifies some shifts in professional positions, statuses and profiles, and characterizes the impact and contextualization of professional standards that shape teaching practices and the management of schools. Further, the book provides relevant comparative and empirical data on the restructuring of the teaching profession in an era of globalization through a critical perspective on and an overview of the main research and comparative findings across countries. As such, the book is not only directed to educational researchers but will also interest professionals and policymakers, addressing a broader education and policy community concerned by the new aspects shaping the teaching profession in the 21st century.

Author : Catherine Milne,Kathryn Scantlebury
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030019747

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Material Practice and Materiality: Too Long Ignored in Science Education by Catherine Milne,Kathryn Scantlebury Pdf

In this book various scholars explore the material in science and science education and its role in scientific practice, such as those practices that are key to the curriculum focuses of science education programs in a number of countries. As a construct, culture can be understood as material and social practice. This definition is useful for informing researchers' nuanced explorations of the nature of science and inclusive decisions about the practice of science education (Sewell, 1999). As fields of material social practice and worlds of meaning, cultures are contradictory, contested, and weakly bounded. The notion of culture as material social practices leads researchers to accept that material practice is as important as conceptual development (social practice). However, in education and science education there is a tendency to ignore material practice and to focus on social practice with language as the arbiter of such social practice. Often material practice, such as those associated with scientific instruments and other apparatus, is ignored with instruments understood as "inscription devices", conduits for language rather than sources of material culture in which scientists share “material other than words” (Baird, 2004, p. 7) when they communicate new knowledge and realities. While we do not ignore the role of language in science, we agree with Barad (2003) that perhaps language has too much power and with that power there seems a concomitant loss of interest in exploring how matter and machines (instruments) contribute to both ontology and epistemology in science and science education.

Author : A. Tejomurty
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 8170224993

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Restructuring of Library and Information Science Curriculum by A. Tejomurty Pdf

Papers presented at a National Seminar on "Restructuring of Library and Information Science Curriculum", organized by Saurashtra University, Rajkot, during 14-16 December 1989.

Author : John K. Gilbert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415342295

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Science Education by John K. Gilbert Pdf

Udvalgte artikler fra 1985-2005, fordelt på 8 temaer: The relationship between science and science education ; Aims of the formal science curriculum and the needs of the students ; Science education in the formal curriculum ; Assessment in formal science education ; Teaching in science education ; Learning in science education ; The conceptual development of students in science education ; The professional development of science teachers

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Basic Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210013773856

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Restructuring the Federal Scientific Establishment by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Basic Research Pdf

Author : Page Keeley
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412908924

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Science Curriculum Topic Study by Page Keeley Pdf

′Without question, this book will be of great value to the profession of science teaching. Given today′s educational landscape of standards and high-stakes testing, curriculum topic study is an essential piece of the puzzle′ - Cary Sneider, Vice President for Educator Programs, Museum of Science, Boston Discover the "missing link" between science standards, teacher practice, and improved student achievement! Becoming an accomplished science teacher not only requires a thorough understanding of science content, but also a familiarity with science standards and research on student learning. However, a comprehensive strategy for translating standards and research into instructional, practice has been lacking since the advent of standards-based education reform. Science Curriculum Topic Study provides a systematic professional development strategy that links science standards and research to curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Developed by author Page Keeley of the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance, the Curriculum Topic Study (CTS) process can help teachers align curriculum, instruction, and assessment with specific, research-based ideas and skills. The CTS process will help teachers: - Improve their understanding of science content - Clarify a hierarchy of content and skills in a learning goal from state or local standards - Define formative and summative assessment goals and strategies - Learn to recognize and address learning difficulties - Increase opportunities for students of all backgrounds to achieve science literacy - Design or utilize instructional materials effectively Containing 147 separate curriculum topic study guides arranged in eleven categories that represent the major domains of science, this book provides the tools to both positively impact student learning and develop the knowledge and skills that distinguish expert science teachers from novices.

Author : Michael Matthews
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789401139946

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Time for Science Education by Michael Matthews Pdf

The book's argument depends, as do most proposals in education, upon cer tain positions in the philosophy of education. I believe that education should be primarily concerned with developing understanding, with initiation into worth while traditions of intellectual achievement, and with developing capacities for clear, analytic and critical thought. These have been the long-accepted goals of liberal education. In a liberal education, students should come to know and appre ciate a variety of disciplines, know them at an appropriate depth, see the interconnectedness of the disciplines, or the modes of thought, and finally have some critical disposition toward what is being learned, to be genuinely open minded about intellectual things. These liberal goals are contrasted with goals such as professional training, job preparation, promotion of self-esteem, social engineering, entertainment, or countless other putative purposes of schooling that are enunciated by politicians, administrators, and educators. The book's argument might be consistent with other views of education especially ones about the training of specialists (sometimes called a professional view of education)-but the argument fits best with a liberal view of education. The liberal hope has always been that if education is done well, then other per sonal and social goods will follow. The development of informed, critical, and moral capacities is the cornerstone for personal and social achievements.

Author : Feng Yue,Youlan Tao,Huashu Wang,Qiliang Cui,Bin Xu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811331671

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Restructuring Translation Education by Feng Yue,Youlan Tao,Huashu Wang,Qiliang Cui,Bin Xu Pdf

This book offers data-based insights into the problems of translation education and their causes in the context of localization and globalization in the era of big data. By examining language services around the globe, illustrating applications of big-data technology and their future development, and describing crowdsourcing and online collaborative translations, speech-to-speech translation and cloud-based translation, it makes readers aware of the important changes taking place in the professional translation market and consequently recognize the insufficiency of translation education and the need for it to be restructured accordingly. Furthermore, the book includes data-based analyses of translation education problems, such as teaching philosophy, curriculum design and faculty development of both undergraduate and postgraduate education in China. More importantly, it proposes solutions that have already been successful in experiments in a number of universities in China for other institutions of higher education to imitate in restructuring translation education. The discussion is of interest for current and future translation policy makers, translation educators, translators and learners.

Author : David T. Conley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015008948658

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Roadmap to Restructuring by David T. Conley Pdf

Designed as a guide for practitioners, this book draws on over 600 sources to discuss school restructuring definitions, trends, and issues; achievements of a few select schools; and implementation techniques and strategies. Two overarching, indirectly stated issues pervading the reconceptualization of schooling are multiculturalism and a caring school staff. The book is organized into four parts. Part 1, Rationale and Context, presents a historical context for restructuring and a summary of the current motivations for, and implications of, educational restructuring. Part 2, Changing Roles and Responsibilities, examines the evolution of new roles for essentially all the groups that participate in public education. Part 3, Dimensions of Restructuring, explores the concepts of incremental and discontinuous change and extensively discusses current school restructuring activities along 12 dimensions: learner outcomes, curriculum, instruction, assessment, learning environment, technology, school-community relations, time schedules, governance, teacher leadership, personnel definitions and roles, and working relationships. Part 4, Process of Restructuring, captures the lessons being learned about the restructuring process and presents examples of strategies and techniques. (Contains over 600 references.) (MLH)

Author : Sandra K. Abell,Ken Appleton,Deborah L. Hanuscin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1346 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135619657

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Handbook of Research on Science Education by Sandra K. Abell,Ken Appleton,Deborah L. Hanuscin Pdf

This state-of-the art research Handbook provides a comprehensive, coherent, current synthesis of the empirical and theoretical research concerning teaching and learning in science and lays down a foundation upon which future research can be built. The contributors, all leading experts in their research areas, represent the international and gender diversity that exists in the science education research community. As a whole, the Handbook of Research on Science Education demonstrates that science education is alive and well and illustrates its vitality. It is an essential resource for the entire science education community, including veteran and emerging researchers, university faculty, graduate students, practitioners in the schools, and science education professionals outside of universities. The National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) endorses the Handbook of Research on Science Education as an important and valuable synthesis of the current knowledge in the field of science education by leading individuals in the field. For more information on NARST, please visit: http://www.narst.org/.

Author : Steven C. Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136479205

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Neoliberalism and the Global Restructuring of Knowledge and Education by Steven C. Ward Pdf

This book examines the influence of neoliberal ideas and practices on the way knowledge has been conceptualized, produced, and disseminated over the last few decades at different levels of public education and in various national contexts around the world.

Author : Sibel Erduran,Zoubeida R. Dagher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401790574

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Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science Education by Sibel Erduran,Zoubeida R. Dagher Pdf

Prompted by the ongoing debate among science educators over ‘nature of science’, and its importance in school and university curricula, this book is a clarion call for a broad re-conceptualizing of nature of science in science education. The authors draw on the ‘family resemblance’ approach popularized by Wittgenstein, defining science as a cognitive-epistemic and social-institutional system whose heterogeneous characteristics and influences should be more thoroughly reflected in science education. They seek wherever possible to clarify their developing thesis with visual tools that illustrate how their ideas can be practically applied in science education. The volume’s holistic representation of science, which includes the aims and values, knowledge, practices, techniques, and methodological rules (as well as science’s social and institutional contexts), mirrors its core aim to synthesize perspectives from the fields of philosophy of science and science education. The authors believe that this more integrated conception of nature of science in science education is both innovative and beneficial. They discuss in detail the implications for curriculum content, pedagogy, and learning outcomes, deploy numerous real-life examples, and detail the links between their ideas and curriculum policy more generally.