Science Education A Global Perspective

Author : Ben Akpan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319323510

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Science Education: A Global Perspective is ‘global’ both in content and authorship. Its 17 chapters by an assemblage of seasoned and knowledgeable science educators from many parts of the world seek to bring to the fore current developments in science education and their implications. The book thus covers a wide range of topics in science education from various national and international perspectives. These include the nature of science, science and religion, evolution, curriculum and pedagogy, context-based teaching and learning, science and national development, socially-responsible science education, equitable access for women and girls in science and technology education, and the benefits of science education research. It ends on an optimistic note by looking at science education in 50 years’ time with a recommendation, among others, for stakeholders to take the responsibility of preparing children towards a blossoming science education sector in an anticipated future world. This book is suitable for use by discerning researchers, teachers, undergraduate and postgraduate students in science education, and policy makers at all levels of education. Other educationalists and personnel in science and technology vocations will also find it interesting and useful as the reader-motivated approach has guided the presentation of ideas. Science Education: A Global Perspective is a rich compendium of the components of science education in context, practice, and delivery. Dr Bulent Cavas, Professor of Science Education, Dokuz Eylul Univerity, Buca-Izmir, Turkey/President-Elect, International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE) This book will be of immense relevance for current and future global strides in training and research in science education. Surinder K. Ghai, Chairman, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India This book provides a refreshing insight into the current status and future direction of science education. It will be very useful to researchers, those pursuing undergraduate and post-graduate courses in science education, and all other personnel involved in the policy and practice of science education. Dr. Bennoit Sossou, Director/Country Representative, UNESCO Regional Office in Abuja, Nigeria

Author : Margrete Siebert Klein,F. James Rutherford,F James Rutherford,Margrete S. Klein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000310849

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Science Education In Global Perspective by Margrete Siebert Klein,F. James Rutherford,F James Rutherford,Margrete S. Klein Pdf

The decline in the quality of American public school instruction, particularly in science and mathematics, is a well-documented subject of concern for our nation. This book examines the educational systems in Japan, the People's Republic of China, East and West Germany, and the Soviet Union, countries that have developed particularly innovative app

Author : Margrete Siebert Klein,Floyd James Rutherford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Science
ISBN : OCLC:13083623

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Author : Christine V. McDonald,Fouad Abd-El-Khalick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317307266

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Representations of Nature of Science in School Science Textbooks by Christine V. McDonald,Fouad Abd-El-Khalick Pdf

Bringing together international research on nature of science (NOS) representations in science textbooks, the unique analyses presented in this volume provides a global perspective on NOS from elementary to college level and discusses the practical implications in various regions across the globe. Contributing authors highlight the similarities and differences in NOS representations and provide recommendations for future science textbooks. This comprehensive analysis is a definitive reference work for the field of science education.

Author : Gregory P. Thomas,Helen J. Boon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031180927

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Challenges in Science Education by Gregory P. Thomas,Helen J. Boon Pdf

This edited volume focuses on challenges facing science education across three areas: curriculum, teacher education, and pedagogy. Integrating a diverse range of perspectives from both emerging and established scholars in the field, chapters consider the need for measured responses to issues in society that have become pronounced in recent years, including lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic, the environment, and persisting challenges in STEM teaching and learning. In doing so, the editors and their authors chart a potential course for existing and future possibilities and probabilities for science education.

Author : Kok-Sing Tang,Kristina Danielsson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319691978

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Global Developments in Literacy Research for Science Education by Kok-Sing Tang,Kristina Danielsson Pdf

This book highlights recent developments in literacy research in science teaching and learning from countries such as Australia, Brazil, China, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States. It includes multiple topics and perspectives on the role of literacy in enhancing science teaching and learning, such as the struggles faced by students in science literacy learning, case studies and evaluations of classroom-based interventions, and the challenges encountered in the science classrooms. It offers a critical and comprehensive investigation on numerous emerging themes in the area of literacy and science education, including disciplinary literacy, scientific literacy, classroom discourse, multimodality, language and representations of science, and content and language integrated learning (CLIL). The diversity of views and research contexts in this volume presents a useful introductory handbook for academics, researchers, and graduate students working in this specialized niche area. With a wealth of instructional ideas and innovations, it is also highly relevant for teachers and teacher educators seeking to improve science teaching and learning through the use of literacy.

Author : John Gilbert
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415327784

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The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Science Education by John Gilbert Pdf

This Reader brings together a wide range of material to present an international perspective on topical issues in science education today. In order to identify what themes should be addressed in the book, thirty-eight science educators from around the world responded to the question: 'What issues are currently important in science education in your country?' The outcome is this lively and authoritative Reader, which features topics as varied as: globalisation assessment pupil's views on science education environmental education teaching approaches teacher development multimedia and ICT constructivism. With a specially written introduction from the editor, providing a much-needed context to the current education climate, students of science education will find this Reader an important route map to further reading and understanding.

Author : Mahsood Shah,Chenicheri Sid Nair
Publisher : Chandos Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780081008980

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A Global Perspective on Private Higher Education by Mahsood Shah,Chenicheri Sid Nair Pdf

A Global Perspective on Private Higher Education provides a timely review of the significant growth of private higher education in many parts of the world during the last decade. The book is concurrent with significant changes in the external operating environment of private higher education, including government policy and its impact on the ongoing growth of the sector. The title brings together the trends relating to the growth and the decline of private higher education providers, also including the key contributing factors of the changes from 17 countries. Provides a timely review of the significant growth of private higher education in many parts of the world during the last decade Presents the significant changes in the external operating environment of private higher education Brings together the trends relating to the growth and the decline of private higher education providers

Author : Ingrid Sánchez Tapia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030279820

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International Perspectives on the Contextualization of Science Education by Ingrid Sánchez Tapia Pdf

This book explores how science learning can be more relevant and interesting for students and teachers by using a contextualized approach to science education. The contributors explore the contextualization of science education from multiple angles, such as teacher education, curriculum design, assessment and educational policy, and from multiple national perspectives. The aim of this exploration is to provide and inspire new practical approaches to bring science education closer to the lives of students to accelerate progress towards global scientific literacy. The book presents real life examples of how to make science relevant for children and adolescents of diverse ethnic and language backgrounds, socioeconomic status and nationalities, providing tools and guidance for teacher educators and researchers to improve the contextualization and cultural relevance of their practice. The book includes rigorous studies demonstrating that the contextualization of science learning environments is essential for student engagement in learning science and practitioners' reflections on how to apply this knowledge in the classroom and at national scale. This approach makes this book valuable for researchers and professors of science education and international education interested in designing teacher education courses that prepare future teachers to contextualize their teaching and in adding a critical dimension to their research agendas.

Author : Mahsood Shah,Anna Bennett,Erica Southgate
Publisher : Chandos Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780081002469

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Widening Higher Education Participation by Mahsood Shah,Anna Bennett,Erica Southgate Pdf

Governments have introduced policies to widen the participation of disadvantaged students in higher education. Widening participation policies are also introduced to ensure that higher education contributes to social and economic outcomes. This book includes important insights from 23 leading scholars across 11 countries on a wide range of topics that focus on government policies, institutional structures and the social and economic impacts of widening participation. While widening participation policies and outcomes in developed countries are more widely documented, the policies, achievements, and challenges in other countries such as Brazil, China, Indonesia, South Africa and Palestine are not so widely disseminated. Therefore, the ‘untold stories’ of policies and outcomes of widening participation are a key part of this book. The chapters are organised according to three overarching themes, which include national and transnational studies of the history of widening participation and current policies; inclusive learning and academic outcomes; and socioeconomic structures, concepts and theories. engages prominent academics, earlier career researchers, and research students provides a wide range of topics related to widening participation explores social and economic impact of widening student participation presents untold stories of widening participation in developing countries experiencing growth in youth population

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Mathematical Sciences Education Board,Continuing to Learn from TIMSS Committee,Committee on Science Education K-12
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309067805

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Global Perspectives for Local Action by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Mathematical Sciences Education Board,Continuing to Learn from TIMSS Committee,Committee on Science Education K-12 Pdf

The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is a rich source of information that can be used by a broad range of stakeholders to promote discussions and actions to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning. To support educators, administrators, parents, and others interested in education in using TIMSS materials, the National Research Council (NRC) has prepared a report, Global Perspectives for Local Action: Using TIMSS to Improve U.S. Mathematics and Science Education (see "Resources"). This report will help educators, administrators, parents and others interested in education to understand what can be learned from TIMSS findings, and it will encourage them to use the information to make improvements in mathematics and science education. Provided in the report are insights into mathematics and science achievement, curriculum, instruction, and school support systems, such as professional development, in the United States and around the world. To make TIMSS information more accessible and useful to educators and the public, the NRC prepared this professional development guide to accompany its report. This guide provides directions and support materials for leading workshops and planning sessions for teachers, educational administrators, higher education faculty, and the interested public.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Committee on Science Education K-12 and Mathematical Sciences Education Board
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309065306

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Global Perspectives for Local Action by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Committee on Science Education K-12 and Mathematical Sciences Education Board Pdf

The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) raised the alarm about U.S. mathematics and science education. Most Americans are now aware that U.S. students lag behind their peers in other developed nations. In one state, the legislature reacted by lengthening the school year, assuming that more time on academic content would boost student performance. Some educators have fixed the blame on the mathematics and science curricula typically used in U.S. schools. Does the problem lie in the curricula, instruction, or the system of support available to teachers? This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of TIMSS studyâ€"a half-million students from 15,000 schools around the world. It presents detailed reports on three major aspects of education, including curriculum issues, teaching practices, and school support.

Author : Carol Brandt,Heidi B Carlone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317696063

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Ethnographies of Science Education by Carol Brandt,Heidi B Carlone Pdf

Researchers who conduct ethnography in science education tend to have a deep commitment for transforming science to improve the lives of people in underserved communities. This edited volume explores how contemporary ethnographers in science education bring to light the local production of scientific knowledge and the ways it is implicated in larger social and political struggles. Ethnographies in science education contribute to understanding the experiences of linguistically, racially, and economically diverse populations who have been historically excluded from participation in science. An anthropological approach has also been instrumental in explicating the situated practices by which students enact science in the classroom and in their lives beyond schools. This edited volume brings together ethnographers in science education to contribute a global perspective on science teaching and learning in school and university classrooms, at home, and after school programs. Included are examples of ethnography in science education from the UK, Argentina, Canada, and the USA in which contributors point to promising directions for theorizing the ‘culture’ of science education as we undertake educational reform. The authors in this volume argue that ethnography is not only a valid approach for the study of science education, but also they contend that it is essential to the development of more equitable practices for instruction and learning. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnography and Education.

Author : Mei-Hung Chiu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812874726

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Science Education Research and Practices in Taiwan by Mei-Hung Chiu Pdf

This book highlights the development and outcomes of research on and practical experience in science education in Taiwan. As the outcomes of the scholarship on science education in Taiwan have garnered attention in science education communities around the world, this book gathers the most relevant research on Taiwan, presenting it in a cohesive overview that will move science education forward in terms of policy, research and practice.

Author : Richard K. Coll,Neil Taylor
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087902490

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Science Education in Context by Richard K. Coll,Neil Taylor Pdf

This book presents an international perspective of the influence of educational context on science education. The focus is on the interactions between curriculum development and implementation, particularly in non-Western and non-English-speaking contexts (i.e., outside the UK, USA, Australia, NZ, etc. ). An important and distinguishing feature of the book is that it draws upon the experiences and research from local experts from an extremely diverse cohort across the world (26 countries in total). The book addresses topics such as: curriculum development; research or evaluation of an implemented curriculum; discussion of pressures driving curriculum reform or implementation of new curricula (e. g., technology or environmental education); the influence of political, cultural, societal or religious mores on education; governmental or ministerial drives for curriculum reform; economic or other pressures driving curriculum reform; the influence of external assessment regimes on curriculum; and so on.