Improving Science Education
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2000
382 pages
978-0-335-23232-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book takes stock of where we are in science education research, and considers where we ought now to be going. It explores how and whether the research effort in science education has contributed to improvements in the practice of teaching science and the science curriculum. It contains contributions from an international group of science educators.
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Robin Millar
IMPROVING SCIENCE EDUCATION
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12/2000
Open University Press
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Content
- Front cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Section 1 Researching teaching and learning in science
- Chapter 1 Why things fall: evidence and warrants for belief in a college astronomy course
- Chapter 2 Designing teaching situations in the secondary school
- Chapter 3 Formative assessment and science education: a model and theorizing
- Chapter 4 National evaluation for the improvement of science teaching
- Chapter 5 Learning to teach science in the primary school
- Chapter 6 Managing science teachers' development
- Chapter 7 Status as the hallmark of conceptual learning
- Chapter 8 Analysing discourse in the science classroom
- Section 2 Reviewing the role and purpose of science in the school curriculum
- Chapter 9 Providing suitable content in the 'science for all' curriculum
- Chapter 10 Interesting all children in 'science for all'
- Chapter 11 Making the nature of science explicit
- Chapter 12 'Science for all': time for a paradigm shift?
- Chapter 13 Science, views about science, and pluralistic science education
- Chapter 14 Renegotiating the culture of school science
- Section 3 Researching science education
- Chapter 15 Research programmes and the student science learning literature
- Chapter 16 Goals, methods and achievements of research in science education
- Chapter 17 Didactics of science: the forgotten dimension in science education research?
- Chapter 18 Policy, pracitce and research: the case of testing and assessment
- Notes on contributors
- Index
- Back cover
