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Physics teachers’ approaches to teaching physics are generally considered to be linked to their views about physics. In this
qualitative study, the views about physics held by a group of physics teachers whose teaching practice was traditional were
explored and compared with the views held by physics teachers who used conceptual change approaches. A particular focus of
the study was teachers’ views about the role of mathematics in physics. The findings suggest the traditional teachers saw
physics as discovered, close approximations of reality while the conceptual change teachers’ views about physics ranged from
a social constructivist perspective to more realist views. However, most teachers did not appear to have given much thought
to the nature of physics or physics knowledge, nor to the role of mathematics in physics.
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Compatibility between cultural studies and conceptual change in science education: there is more to acknowledge than to fight straw men! 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
In this response, we attempt to clarify our position on conceptual change, state our position on mental models being a viable
construct to represent learning, indicate important issues from the social cultural perspective that can inform our work on
conceptual change and lastly comment on issues that we consider to be straw men. Above all we argue that there is no best
theory of teaching and learning and argue for a multiple perspective approach to understanding science teaching and learning.
David F. Treagust is a professor of science education at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia where he teaches courses in campus-based and international programs related to teaching and learning science. His research interests include understanding students’ ideas about science concepts and how these ideas relate to conceptual change, the design of curricula and teachers’ classroom practices. Reinders Duit is a professor of physics education at the Leibniz Institute for Science Education (IPN) at the University of Kiel, the Central Institute for Science Education Research in Germany. A major concern of his work has been teaching and learning science from conceptual change perspectives. More recently, his work includes video-based studies on the practice of science instruction as well as teacher professional development. 相似文献
Reinders DuitEmail: |
David F. Treagust is a professor of science education at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia where he teaches courses in campus-based and international programs related to teaching and learning science. His research interests include understanding students’ ideas about science concepts and how these ideas relate to conceptual change, the design of curricula and teachers’ classroom practices. Reinders Duit is a professor of physics education at the Leibniz Institute for Science Education (IPN) at the University of Kiel, the Central Institute for Science Education Research in Germany. A major concern of his work has been teaching and learning science from conceptual change perspectives. More recently, his work includes video-based studies on the practice of science instruction as well as teacher professional development. 相似文献
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Igal Galili 《Science & Education》2009,18(1):1-23
This paper considers thought experiment as a special scientific tool that mediates between theory and experiment by mental
simulation. To clarify the meaning of thought experiment, as required in teaching science, we followed the relevant episodes
throughout the history of science paying attention to the epistemological status of the performed activity. A definition of
thought experiment is suggested and its meaning is analyzed using two-dimensional conceptual variation. This method allows one to represent
thought experiment in comparison with the congenerous conceptual constructs also defined. A similar approach is used to classify
the uses of thought experiments, mainly for the purpose of science curriculum.
Igal Galili is professor of science education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Educated in physics, he turned to the area of physics education where his research addresses students’ knowledge of physics and its structure, the nature of physics concepts to be taught, physics knowledge structure and the ways of its representation in teaching. This orientation implies addressing the history and philosophy of science, both by teachers and students, as providing conceptual framework of the meaningful and cultural knowledge of the subject. Within this effort, a special framework of discipline-culture was developed and suggested for teaching science. The same framework was used to explain students’ conceptual change, the structure of science curriculum, as well as of scientific revolutions. 相似文献
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Igal Galili is professor of science education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Educated in physics, he turned to the area of physics education where his research addresses students’ knowledge of physics and its structure, the nature of physics concepts to be taught, physics knowledge structure and the ways of its representation in teaching. This orientation implies addressing the history and philosophy of science, both by teachers and students, as providing conceptual framework of the meaningful and cultural knowledge of the subject. Within this effort, a special framework of discipline-culture was developed and suggested for teaching science. The same framework was used to explain students’ conceptual change, the structure of science curriculum, as well as of scientific revolutions. 相似文献
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Results of various studies suggest that multimedia ‘case methods’ (activities associated with case documentaries) have many
benefits in university-based teacher education contexts. They can, for example, help to ‘bridge the gap’ between perspectives
and practices held by academic teacher educators and those held by student-teachers – who may adhere to perspectives and practices
commonly supported in schools. On the other hand, some studies, along with theoretical arguments, suggest that there are limits
to the effectiveness of multimedia case methods – because, for example, they can never fully represent realities of teaching
and learning in schools. Furthermore, often missing from multimedia case methods is the student-teacher in the role of teacher. To address these concerns, we modified an existing multimedia case method by associating it with a special practice teaching
situation in a school context. Qualitative data analyzed using constant comparative methods suggest that student-teachers
engaged in this modified multimedia case method developed relatively deep commitments to encouraging students to conduct technology
design projects – a non-traditional practice in school science. Factors that appeared to influence development of this motivation
included student-teachers’ pre-instructional perspectives about science and the personalization and contextualization inherent
to the modified multimedia case method.
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Erminia PedrettiEmail: |
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Charalambos Y. Charalambous George N. Philippou Leonidas Kyriakides 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2008,67(2):125-142
This paper focuses on efficacy beliefs with respect to teaching mathematics; it aims at testing and validating an existing
scale for measuring efficacy beliefs in the domain of mathematics, examining the development of preservice teachers’ efficacy
beliefs in mathematics during fieldwork, and identifying factors that contribute to the development of these beliefs. Exploratory
factor analysis applied to longitudinal data collected through a questionnaire administered to almost 90 preservice teachers
elicited a two-factor model, reflecting efficacy beliefs in mathematics instruction and classroom management. Using cluster
analysis, we found four patterns in the development of preservice teachers’ efficacy beliefs regarding these two factors.
Our analysis of semi-structured interviews with eight participants representing these four patterns suggested that preservice
teachers’ efficacy beliefs were mainly informed by experimentation with teaching and interaction with mentors, tutors, peers,
and pupils. Based on our findings, we draw implications for mathematics preservice teacher education and provide suggestions
for future research.
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Charalambos Y. CharalambousEmail: |
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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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Ajay Sharma 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2008,3(4):875-880
In this response to commentaries by Ali Sammel, Jhumki Basu and Alberto Rodriguez, I present my perspective on three important
issues raised by the commentators. These issues relate to the role of a researcher in her field settings and society, the
critique of science and science education as oppressive dominant discourses, and co-opting participants as researchers. I
argue that researchers should work actively for progressive change in discursive fields such as educational research, in which
they are firmly embedded rather than playing an interventionist role in field settings where their discursive positionality
maybe temporary and not that rooted. Regarding the critique of science and science education, my response favors a perspective
wherein an understanding of the marginalization and oppression of non-western communities caused by western science and science
education is counterbalanced by an appreciation of the ways in which marginalized communities can use science and science
education for affecting progressive change. Lastly, I recognize the value of co-opting participants in writing and communication
of research.
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Ajay SharmaEmail: |
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Eileen Carlton Parsons 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2008,3(1):209-216
This article highlights the transformative contributions of Mary Monroe Atwater to the field of science education. Influenced
by worldviews shaped by a segregated macro-society and the privileges of a micro-society, Mary stood against oppression in
the early years of her academic career by desegregating academic settings and being the first and only African American in
varied arenas for many years. As an aspiring academic, Mary challenged dominant paradigms and as an activist academic, she
changed the landscape of science education. She broadened the knowledge base through scholarship and praxis and diversified
the science education community through personal and professional efforts that were pioneering in nature.
Eileen Carlton Parsons is an assistant professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The contexts in which the science teaching and learning of African Americans occur constitute the core of her research interests. She examines the educative process with respect to culture and race. 相似文献
Eileen Carlton ParsonsEmail: |
Eileen Carlton Parsons is an assistant professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The contexts in which the science teaching and learning of African Americans occur constitute the core of her research interests. She examines the educative process with respect to culture and race. 相似文献
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More than a conversation: using cogenerative dialogues in the professional development of high school chemistry teachers 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Sonya N. Martin Kathryn Scantlebury 《Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability》2009,21(2):119-136
This paper focuses on content-based and pedagogical instructors’ use of cogenerative dialogues to improve instructional practice
and to evaluate program effectiveness in a professional development program for high school chemistry teachers. We share our
research findings from using cogenerative dialogues as an evaluative tool for general assessment of various program-related
issues. We discuss how engaging students in cogenerative dialogues improved teaching and learning in chemistry and chemistry
education courses. This research provides insights and direction for improving content-based professional development programs
for science teachers and the learning experiences of high school science students. Cogenerative dialogue has the potential
to expand evaluation methodologies that will position participants more centrally in not only the collection of data, but
also the analysis of these data to catalyze transformative practices in educational programs.
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Sonya N. MartinEmail: |
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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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Konstantinos Alexakos 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(2):495-504
In his December editorial on Michael Reiss, Kenneth Tobin (Cult Stud Sci Educ 3:793–798, 2008), raises some very important questions for science and science teachers regarding science education and the teaching of creationism
in the classroom. I agree with him that students’ creationist ideologies should be treated not as misconceptions but as worldviews.
Because of creationism’s peculiarly strong political links though, I argue that such discussion must address three critical
and interconnected issues, including the uncertain state of teaching evolution in public schools nationally, the political
convergence of the creationist political beliefs with bigoted worldviews, and creationism’s inherent contrariness to science
and human progress. I suggest that we as science educators therefore not consider all sides to be equally right and to instead
take side against the politics of creationism. I also argue that we need much more serious discussion on how to better teach
science to students who hold creationist worldviews, and that science educators such as Reiss need to be part of that.
Konstantinos Alexakos is an assistant professor in the School of Education at Brooklyn College (CUNY). He is a former New York City high school science teacher and a former NYC transit worker. His research interests include sociocultural issues especially fictive kinships among minority science students and perseverance and success. 相似文献
Konstantinos AlexakosEmail: |
Konstantinos Alexakos is an assistant professor in the School of Education at Brooklyn College (CUNY). He is a former New York City high school science teacher and a former NYC transit worker. His research interests include sociocultural issues especially fictive kinships among minority science students and perseverance and success. 相似文献
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Ali Sammel 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(3):649-656
This paper provides another way to gaze upon Brad’s story as presented by van Eijck and Roth (2010). It raises questions about
infrastructural racism in contemporary science education by exploring its association with Whiteness and White privilege.
To explore the racial positioning inherent in Western science education specific attention is given to the positions of power
that accompany Western ways of knowing the world (i.e., science education) in comparison to Other ways of knowing the world
(i.e., First Nations Ways of Knowing). The paper suggests the power relationships inherent within this dualism are asymmetrical
due to the implications of Whiteness within colonial societies. Even though power relations were not discussed in Brad’s story,
the paper suggests the implications were visible. The paper concludes by advocating for a re-imagining in science education
where the traditional ontological and epistemological foundations are deconstructed and spaces are created for enacting practical
ways of resisting oppression.
Alison Sammel received her doctorate in 2005 for a study that used critical theory and feminist poststructuralism to analyze how five science teachers believed they incorporated critical forms of pedagogy in their high school science classrooms. Intrigued by the social construction of the ‘Western science teacher’ she continues to explore the teaching and learning of Science through the lens of feminist poststructuralism. Alison currently teaches at the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University on the Gold Coast and researches in the fields of Science and Anti-oppressive pedagogies. 相似文献
Ali SammelEmail: |
Alison Sammel received her doctorate in 2005 for a study that used critical theory and feminist poststructuralism to analyze how five science teachers believed they incorporated critical forms of pedagogy in their high school science classrooms. Intrigued by the social construction of the ‘Western science teacher’ she continues to explore the teaching and learning of Science through the lens of feminist poststructuralism. Alison currently teaches at the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University on the Gold Coast and researches in the fields of Science and Anti-oppressive pedagogies. 相似文献
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Sheau-Wen Lin 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2008,3(1):5-12
This article reviews the work of Jong-Hsiang Yang in science education and his efforts in creating a research culture in Taiwan.
Following in Yang’s footprints, the rebuilding of science education, implementing a new science curriculum, and gaining the
academic status of science education, we go through the important years of the development of science education in Taiwan.
His leadership in introducing interpretive research methods and expanding international studies catalyzed profound changes
to science education research in Taiwan.
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Sheau-Wen LinEmail: |
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Angela Calabrese Barton 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(2):393-397
Dr. Sreyashi Jhumki Basu was a scholar committed to equity and social justice in science education who passed away in December
2008. In this essay, I describe Jhumki’s research and the call to action her life’s work has laid out for the science education
community. In particular, I draw attention to the role of critical science agency in learning and the democratic science pedagogy
model that Jhumki developed to support students in crafting such agency.
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Angela Calabrese BartonEmail: |
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Language in Science Education as a Gatekeeper to Learning,Teaching, and Professional Development 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Felicia M. Moore 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2007,18(2):319-343
In this study, I used a feminist poststructural perspective to explain how language is a gatekeeper in learning science, in
achieving professional honors in teaching science, and in teaching science to English language learners. The various uses
of language revealed interesting dynamics related to the culture of power of language and the culture of power of science
along race–ethnicity, gender, and class dimensions for teachers. Teachers did not necessarily see language as having distinct
purposes and uses. This further maintained the gatekeeping nature of language and discourse in science education. I discuss
implications for looking at language in science education for teacher professional development and student learning.
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Felicia M. MooreEmail: |
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Charbel Niño El-Hani Eduardo Fleury Mortimer 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2007,2(3):657-702
In this paper, we offer an intermediate position in the multiculturalism/universalism debate, drawing upon Cobern and Loving’s
epistemological pluralism, pragmatist philosophies, Southerland’s defense of instructional multicultural science education,
and the conceptual profile model. An important element in this position is the proposal that understanding is the proper goal
of science education. Our commitment to this proposal is explained in terms of a defense of an ethics of coexistence for dealing
with cultural differences, according to which social argumentative processes—including those in science education—should be
marked by dialogue and confrontation of arguments in the search of possible solutions, and an effort to (co-)live with differences
if a negotiated solution is not reached. To understand the discourses at stake is, in our view, a key requirement for the
coexistence of arguments and discourses, and the science classroom is the privileged space for promoting an understanding
of the scientific discourse in particular. We argue for “inclusion” of students’ culturally grounded ideas in science education,
but in a sense that avoids curricular multicultural science education, and, thus, any attempt to broaden the definition of
“science” so that ideas from other ways of knowing might be simply treated as science contents. Science teachers should always
take in due account the diversity of students’ worldviews, giving them room in argumentative processes in science classrooms,
but should never lose from sight the necessity of stimulating students to understand scientific ideas. This view is grounded
on a distinction between the goals of science education and the nature of science instruction, and demands a discussion about
how learning is to take place in culturally sensitive science education, and about communicative approaches that might be
more productive in science classrooms organized as we propose here. We employ the conceptual profile model to address both
issues. We expect this paper can contribute to the elaboration of an instructional multicultural science education approach
that eliminates the forced choice between the goals of promoting students’ understanding of scientific ideas and of empowering
students through education.
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Eduardo Fleury MortimerEmail: |
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Felicia M. Moore 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2008,19(1):85-109
This study reports the learning of elementary preservice teachers regarding diversity and teaching science in diverse urban
elementary classrooms. From participating in a semester-long book club, the preservice teachers reveal their cultural biases,
connect and apply their knowledge of diversity, and understand that getting to know their students are important elements
for teaching science in diverse classrooms. These 3 things connect in ways that allow the preservice teachers to understand
how their cultural biases impede student learning and gain new knowledge of diversity as they change their cultural biases.
Implications of this study reveal that preservice teachers need opportunities to reveal, confront, challenge, and change their
cultural models and to develop new models for teaching science in urban elementary classrooms.
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Felicia M. MooreEmail: |
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This paper examines the relation between situated cognition theory in science education, and feminist standpoint theory in
philosophy of science. It shows that situated cognition is an idea borrowed from a long since discredited philosophy of science.
It argues that feminist standpoint theory ought not be indulged as it is a failed challenge to traditional philosophy of science.
Standpoint theory diverts attention away from the abiding educational and career needs of women in science. In the interest
of women in science, and in the interest of science, science educators would do best for their constituencies by a return
to feminist philosophy understood as the demand for equal access and a level playing field for women in science and society.
Dr. Cassandra L. Pinnick’s research interests focus on formal rationality and the epistemological weight of evidence, evidence in law and science, and anti scientific Realism. Her publications that concern women, science, and the philosophy of science, include essays in the journals Philosophy of Science, Metascience, Social Epistemology, a contributed chapter to the Routledge Companion for Philosophy of Science, and co-editorship of the anthology Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology of Science (Rutgers). 相似文献
Cassandra L. PinnickEmail: |
Dr. Cassandra L. Pinnick’s research interests focus on formal rationality and the epistemological weight of evidence, evidence in law and science, and anti scientific Realism. Her publications that concern women, science, and the philosophy of science, include essays in the journals Philosophy of Science, Metascience, Social Epistemology, a contributed chapter to the Routledge Companion for Philosophy of Science, and co-editorship of the anthology Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology of Science (Rutgers). 相似文献
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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: |