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Dr Tim Hardy Ms Margaret Bearlin Dr Valda Kirkwood 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):142-151
The aim of the Primary and Early Childhood Science and Technology Education Project (PECSTEP) is to improve teaching and learning
in science and technology of by increasing the number of early childhood and primary teachers who are effective educators.
PECSTEP is based on an interactive model of teaching and systematically links work on gender with the learning and teaching
of science and technology. The project involves: a year-long inservice program which includes the development of a science
curriculum unit by teachers in their schools; linking of the preservice and inservice programs; and the development of support
networks for teachers. Each phase of PECSTEP has been researched by means of surveys, interviews and the use of diaries. Research
questions have focussed particularly on changes in: teachers’ and student teachers’ attitudes to teaching science and technology;
their perceptions of science and technology; their perceptions of their students’ responses and their understandings of how
gender relates to these areas.
Specializations: primary science curriculum, science teacher education, sociology of science, technology and education.
Specializations: gender and science/science teacher education, feminist theory, curriculum theory.
Specializations: Science education research, curriculum development. 相似文献
2.
The study of Aboriginal culture in schools is supported by an increasing number of educators and government committees. However,
in the absence of substantial research evidence, it has been difficult to propose justifiable curricular recommendations.
The results of this exploratory study suggest that student attitudes towards Aborigines and Aboriginal culture can be improved
by a science program which features an Aboriginal Studies component. Further, it is suggested that there is scope for the
development of up-to-date curriculum materials and more comprehensive studies.
Specializations: science education, teaching thinking.
Specializations: science education, curriculum theory and design, teacher development. 相似文献
3.
Dr Beverley F. Bell Dr Valda M. Kirkwood Mr John D. Pearson 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):31-40
The Centre for Science and Mathematics Education Research at the University of Waikato is now undertaking the fourth Learning
in Science Project, LISP(Teacher Development). The project builds on the findings of the previous three projects on the nature
of learning and how to improve learning of science in classrooms. This two-year project is investigating the process of teacher
development (as change in behaviour and beliefs) in the context of two kinds of teacher courses that acknowledge and take
into account teachers’ existing ideas. This paper summarises the planning done for the first phase of the project as detailed
in Bell, Kirkwood and Pearson (1990).
Specializations: learning theories, curriculum development, equity issues.
Specializations: science education, teacher professional development. 相似文献
4.
Dr Campbell J. McRobbie Dr Geoffrey J. Giddings Dr Barry J. Fraser 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):200-209
Existing instruments for assessing student or teacher perceptions of characteristics of actual or preferred classroom psychosocial
environment are unsuitable for one of the most important settings in science teaching, namely, the science laboratory class.
Consequently, the Science Laboratory Environment Inventory (SLEI), was designed to assess student or teacher perceptions of
seven scales:Teacher Supportiveness, Student Cohesiveness, Open-Endedness, Integration, Organization, Rule Clarity andMaterial Environment. An important feature of the design of the study was that the new instrument was field tested simultaneously in six countries:
Australia, USA, Canada, England, Nigeria and Israel. This paper is based on a sample of 4643 students in 225 individual laboratory
classes, together with the teachers of most of these classes. Preliminary analyses were used to shed light on various important
research questions including the differences between Actual and Preferred environments, gender differences in perceptions
of Actual and Preferred environment, the relationship between the science laboratory environment and attitude towards science
laboratory work, differences between school and university laboratory classes, differences between teachers’ and students’
perceptions of the same laboratory classes, and differences between laboratory classes in different science subjects (Physics,
Chemistry, Biology).
Specializations: Science education, educational evaluation.
Specializations: Curriculum, science education, science laboratory teaching.
Specializations: Learning environments, science education, educational evaluation, curriculum. 相似文献
5.
Mr Ken Appleton 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):1-10
A learning model for science education was proposed by Appleton (1989), based on Osborne and Wittrock’s generative learning
theory (1983) and the Piagetian notions of disequilibrium, assimilation, and accommodation. The model incorporated many aspects
of difficulties in learning science experienced by students, as revealed in the LISP projects and similar research. This paper
examines how the model may be used to derive teaching strategies: components of the model are analysed in terms of specific
types of teacher interventions which could facilitate students’ progress to accommodation. Some established teaching strategies
are analysed in terms of these interventions.
Specializations: primary teacher education, teaching strategies in science. 相似文献
6.
Margaret Bearlin 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):21-30
Female teachers predominate in primary schools, and tend both to have more negative perceptions of their teaching skills in
the physical sciences than males, and to expect girls to perform less well in these areas than boys, with likely serious consequences
for girls. In this context the WASTE (Women and Science Teacher Education) Project sought to identify characteristics for
teacher education programs which, in the opinion of their conveners, were productive in changing the attitude toward the teaching
of science, or in changing the actual mode of teaching science, of women preservice and practising teachers. This paper reports
the findings of the WASTE Project which surveyed the conveners of pre- and inservice programs and outlined the three models
of exemplary practice used to classify responses:subject-centred, learner-centred andknowledge and person-centred. These models were based largely on differing explanations given for attitude change and on implicit concepts of knowledge,
persons, and teaching and learning, and on the importance attributed to gender as a variable. Secondly, it shows how the Primary
and Early Childhood Science and Technology Education Project, a gender-sensitive action-research project, was built on these
findings. Finally, using these models, it offers a critique of the gender perspective of the Discipline Review of Teacher
Education (DEET, 1989).
Specializations: gender and science/science teacher education, feminist theory, curriculum theory. 相似文献
7.
Dr Michael R. Matthews 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):220-229
The history and philosophy of science components of the new British National Curriculum, and the American Association for
the Advancement of Science Project 2061 curriculum guidelines are described. Some curriculum background is given to these
developments; and a contemporary international project concerned with the utilization of the history and philosophy of science
in science teaching and teacher education is also described. Finally the recent Discipline Review of the Training of Science
and Mathematics Teachers in Australia is examined and criticised for its lack of recommendations about the need for appropriate
history and philosophy of science courses to be included in science teacher education programmes.
Specializations: history and philosophy of science, philosophy of education. 相似文献
8.
Dr. Jeff Northfield 《Research in Science Education》1993,23(1):208-213
The importance of recent and relevant experience is being asserted for teacher educators though not others responsible for
education policy and curriculum. The paper will review the “self evident” value of recent and relevant experience from the
perspective of researcher/teacher educator returning to classroom teaching. The potential and implications for research on
teaching and learning and the opportunities for more significant school experience in teacher education are outlined.
Specializations: teacher education, science education, health education, curriculum evaluation and research. 相似文献
9.
Stephen M. Ritchie 《Research in Science Education》1993,23(1):236-242
Research undertaken by educational researchers based in universities has not had the desired impact on the practices of classroom
science teachers. Yet Goodlad (1990) has argued that if teaching is to be recognised as a profession there is a great need
for the marrying of the knowledge of the practitioner with that of the researcher. Student teachers might learn to respect
the potential for such a union by undertaking minor classroom research projects during their teacher preparation programs.
This paper discusses the role of research projects in pre-service teacher preparation with reference to an inquiry conducted
with teacher education students.
Specializations: science education, teacher learning and preparation, teaching thinking. 相似文献
10.
Jane Butler Kahle Ph.D. Andrea Anderson M.A.T. Arta Damnjanovic M.S. 《Research in Science Education》1991,21(1):208-216
A study, originally don in Australia in 1983, was replicated in an urban-suburb in the Unitd States. The Australian project
vivolved matched pairs of year-fiv teachers in one of two workshops. One workshop taught the skills of teaching electricity,
while the other one discussed issues in gender equity in science education (active participation of both girls and boys, comparble
student-teacher interactions, and research findings concerning equity). The U.S. study provided three types of workshops (skills,
equity and skills, and equity) for comparable groups of fourth and fifth grade teachers. All teachers and their students were
subsequently obseved during lessons involving an electricity unit, queried both students and teachers concerning the appropriateness
of different fields of science for boys and girls and their interest and aptitudes in doing various types of science. Results
from both studies suggest that gender differences in student attitudes toward science may be amellorated by specific types
of teacher workshop.
Specializations: Gender research, science teacher education, science education national policy.
Specializations: Elementary and middle school science education, classroom research.
Specializations: Secondary science education, data analysis. 相似文献
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The recent nationalDiscipline Review of Teacher Education in Mathematics and Science outlines the lack of confidence of many preservice primary school teachers in teaching science. This study explores the attitudes
of 170 primary school teachers in a Perth school district.
By means of a simple questionnaire the perceptions and attitudes of these teachers about the following aspects have been examined:
(1) background understanding of science; (2) preservice training; (3) interest in teaching science; (4) skill in teaching
science; (5) confidence in the plant, animal, matter, energy areas, and (6) time spent teaching science. Besides compiling
frequency responses for all teachers on these aspects comparisons have also been made on the basis of: (1) gender; (2) time
of graduation, and (3) grade level taught.
Specializations: Primary science, teacher attitudes.
Specializations: Primary science, science teaching strategies, curriculum implementation, cognitive studies. 相似文献
12.
John O'Brien 《Research in Science Education》1993,23(1):214-221
The emphasis in classroom learning research has moved from process-product models to the mediating process paradigm. The stimulated-recall
interview and thik aloud techniques are the two main processes that have been used in attempts to find out what goes on inside
students' heads while they are learning. For example, this researcher has used the stimulated-recall interview technique to
identify the workplace thinking of a marine science researcher, and the in-class thinking of a year eleven biology student.
Such studies as these have produced findings with important implications for the classroom teacher in the role of action researcher.
This paper describes how to conduct stimulated-recall interviews and discusses some classroom implications from the two studies.
Specializations: secondary science teacher education, classroom thinking during instruction, direct teaching of thinking skills. 相似文献
13.
Advocates of constructivist science recommend that school science begins with children’s own constructions of reality. This
notion of the way in which students’ knowledge of science grows is closely paralleled by recent research on teachers’ knowledge.
This paper draws on case study evidence of teachers’ work to show how two experienced teachers’ attempts to develop alternative
ways of teaching science involved reframing their previous patterns of understanding and practice. Two alternative interpretations
of the case study evidence are offered. One interpretation, which focuses on identifying gaps in the teachers’ knowledge of
science teaching, leads to theconstructivist paradox. The second interpretation explores theconstructivist parallel, an approach which treats the process of teachers’ knowledge growth with the same respect as constructivists treat students’
learning of science. This approach, the authors argue, is not only more epistemologically consistent but also opens up the
possibilities of helping teachers lead students towards a constructivist school science.
Specializations: Teachers’ knowledge and culture, educational change, qualitative research methodology.
Specializations: Teachers’ knowledge, imagery and teachers’ work, teacher collegiality, supervision of teachers’ work. 相似文献
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Mr. Max Walsh 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):282-291
The evaluations of teacher performance as carried out in most schools are brief, superficial affairs involving a few moments
of classroom observation, followed by the completion of an evaluation report form which is read and signed by all interested
parties, filed away and never referred to again. Such cursory processes do very little to promote the professional development
of teachers, and yet the use of alternative schemes for appraising teaching or providing feedback to teachers is still not
widespread in Australian schools. Students can play a role in providing feedback to teachers, yet whether this feedback is
valid and welcomed is still a contested issue. Some published research shows that it can be a valid and valuable exercise.
This paper reports some work-in-progress in which students in secondary science classes in Tasmania were interviewed, with
some very insightful responses being provided. Broader issues associated with "Teacher Appraisal" are also discussed.
Specializations: Science teacher education, teacher appraisal, classroom practice, environmental education. 相似文献
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This study involved collaborative classroom-based observation of student communication and cognition in small groups after
the implementation of two management strategies in science departments in several schools. The paper presents the data and
provides insights into the conduct of research and teacher development in the midst of educational change.
Specialization: science teacher education.
Specializations: studies in twentieth century science education in Australia, student learning in classroom groups, teachers' working knowledge. 相似文献
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Dr. Campbell J. McRobbie Dr. Barry J. Fraser Dr. Geoffrey J. Giddings 《Research in Science Education》1991,21(1):244-252
Existing instruments in classroom environment research have limitations when subgroups are investigated or case studies of
individual students conducted. This study reports the validation and development of a personal form of the Science Laboratory
Environment Inventory which is better suited to such studies. Further, systematic differences between scores on the class
and personal forms of the instrument are reported along with comparisons of their associations with inquiry skill and attitudinal
outcomes.
Specializations: Science education, Preservice science teacher education.
Specializations: Learning environments, science education, educational evaluation, curriculum.
Specializations: Curriculum, science education, science laboratory teaching. 相似文献
17.
Constructivist views of learning have been applied to science education largely as a response to attempts to understand the
origins of students' misconceptions in science, and therefore the learning process. As part of this effort to understand learning
in science lessons, Appleton (1989) proposed a learning model drawn mainly from Piagetian (1978) ideas and generative learning
theory (Osborne & Wittrock, 1983). This paper explores the development and evolution of the learning model as other constructivist
view were applied, and as the model was tested against students' responses in science lessons. The revised model finally arrived
at is then examined. It was found to be a useful means of describing student's learning processes during a science lesson.
Specializations: primary teacher education, teaching strategies in science, cognitive change and learning theories.
Specializations: secondary science teacher education, chemical education. 相似文献
18.
While constructivism has emerged as a major reform in science education from the last decade, wide-spread adoption of constructivist
practices in school laboratories and classrooms is yet to be achieved. If constructivist approaches are to be utilised more
widely, teachers will need to accept a more active and constructivist role in their own pedagogical learning. One experienced
junior science teacher was able to implement constructivist approaches in her classroom by using a personally constructed
metaphor to guide her practice.
Specializations: science education, teaching of thinking, professional development.
Specializations: constructivism, professional development. 相似文献
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Mr W P Palmer 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):240-248
This paper presents a science/science education bibliography, to assist science educationalists interested in Papua New Guinea.
392 articles were reviewed. The bibliography was then categorised in a number of ways to indicate patterns of research productivity
in various areas of science education, and at different levels of education. A questionnaire was devised to obtain information
from former and current researchers in the field about their own contributions. This exercise produced some surprising information
about science education research in Papua New Guinea.
Specializations: science teacher education, chemical education, science education in developing countries, educational issues. 相似文献
20.
Gilda Segal 《Research in Science Education》1992,22(1):348-357
To address expected negative attitudes to studying science and technology held by primary school student teachers, we devised
a learning model which combined cooperative group strategies with a learners' questions approach in a context which allowed
for pluralism in methodology and epistemology. The model was used in a teacher education elective subject studied by final
year Diploma of Teaching students at the University of Technology, Sydney. We found that some students were inexperienced
in participating in the planning and design of their learning and that for many students, being responsible for their learning
in a science and technology context aroused reactions of alarm and determined avoidance so that alternative pathways for achievement
in the subject had to be offered. Some students reported feelings of satisfaction in their successful learning despite initial
anxiety, low confidence or indifference.
Specializations: children's learning in science and technology; inclusion; contexts, teaching models. 相似文献