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Catherine Milne 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(4):1013-1022
I respond to Zeyer and Roth’s (Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2009) paper on their use of interpretive repertoire analysis to explicate Swiss middle school students’ dialogic responses to
environmental issues. I focus on the strategy of interpretive repertoire analysis, making sense of the stance Zeyer and Roth
take with this analysis by synthesizing their argument and comparing their analysis with other researchers that have also
used this analytic tool. Interpretive repertoires are discourse resources, including mores, tropes, and metaphors that can
be evoked by speakers in support of a tenuous claim. So interpretive repertoires have rhetorical character and function. Interpretive
repertoire analysis requires looking for patterns in the contradictions in the speech of a collective of participants that
can be codified as interpretive repertoires. Interpretive repertoires provide insight into macro-structures that frame, and
are used to justify participants’ behavior. My response to Zeyer and Roth’s argument might also be thought to be contradictory
but I think defensible. In this paper, I outline why I am excited by the possibilities I can image for this type of analysis
in areas of science education research. However, I also felt the need to identify possible limitations of Zeyer and Roth’s
exclusive focus on environmental issues to the neglect of other issues, such as those associated with gender, embedded in
participants’ discourse. I argue that a critical and historical focus, in conjunction with interpretive repertoire analysis,
offer a rich strategy for analysis in science education research, especially in the study of macrostructures, such as gender,
race, identity and power. 相似文献
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Joanna O. Masingila Samson M. Muthwii Patrick M. Kimani 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2011,9(1):89-108
This study examined standard 6 and 8 (Standards 6 and 8 are the sixth and eighth years, respectively, of primary level schooling
in Kenya.) students’ perceptions of how they use mathematics and science outside the classroom in an attempt to learn more
about students’ everyday mathematics and science practice. The knowledge of students’ everyday mathematics and science practice
may assist teachers in helping students be more powerful mathematically and scientifically both in doing mathematics and science
in school and out of school. Thirty-six students at an urban school and a rural school in Kenya were interviewed before and
after keeping a log for a week where they recorded their everyday mathematics and science usage. Through the interviews and
log sheets, we found that the mathematics that these students perceived they used outside the classroom could be classified
as 1 of the 6 activities that Bishop (Educ Stud Math 19:179–191, 1988) has called the 6 fundamental mathematical activities and was also connected to their perception of whether they learned
mathematics outside school. Five categories of students’ perceptions of their out-of-school science usage emerged from the
data, and we found that 4 of our codes coincided with 2 activities identified by Lederman & Lederman (Sci Child 43(2):53,
2005) as part of the nature of science and 2 of Bishop’s categories. We found that the science these students perceived that they
used was connected to their views of what science is. 相似文献
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Wolff-Michael Roth 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2007,2(4):721-783
In science education, reform frequently is conceived and implemented in a top-down fashion, whether teachers are required
to engage in change by their principals or superintendents (through high-stakes testing and accountability measures) or by
researchers, who inform teachers about alternatives they ought to implement. In this position paper on science education policy, I draw on first philosophy to argue for a different approach to reform, one that involves all stakeholders—teachers, interns,
school and university supervisors, and, above all, students—who participate in efforts to understand and change their everyday
praxis of teaching and learning. Once all stakeholders experience control over the shaping and changing of classroom learning
(i.e., experience agency), they may recognize that they really are in it together, that is, they experience a sense of solidarity.
Drawing on ethnographic vignettes, science teaching examples, and philosophical concepts, I outline how more democratic approaches
to reform can be enabled. 相似文献
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The classical music academy is a site dominated by traditional meanings of creative practice and an image of the professional
creative career as solo performer that is fully available to only a very few students after graduating. The purpose of the
study reported in this paper is to explore career-young professional pianists’ talk about the transition from study within
a music academy to working life. The focus is on the ways in which they characterize the nature and significance of this transition
from very traditional practice and study, and how they (re)negotiate their identities as professional musicians and pianists
in contemporary working life. Four classical pianists were interviewed in-depth about their musicianship, including their
transition from study to working life. The qualitative analyses presented here suggest that, as they talked about their transitions
and developing musicianship, the speakers constructed, re-constructed and oriented to notions of professional trajectories.
Such trajectories are emergent, relational and contextually constituted (Sawyer 2003; MacDonald and Miell 2002; Moran and John-Steiner 2004). Rather than being fixed or dependent on communal expectations, they reflect creative freedom and independence, encompassing
multiple influences. Crucially, the transition from study to working life is implicated in the process of assuming agency
in respect of one’s own musicianship and career—a process that involves identity work, the (re)negotiation of pathways, narrations
and trajectories. 相似文献
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Environment and environmental protection are on the forefront of political concerns globally. But how are the media and political discourses concerning these issues mirrored in the public more generally and in the discourses of school science students more specifically? In this study, we analyze the discourse mobilized in whole-class conversations of and interviews with 15- to 16-year-old Swiss junior high school students. We identify two core interpretive repertoires (each unfolding into two second-order repertoires) that turn out to be the building blocks of environmental discourse, which is characteristic not only of these students but also of Swiss society more generally. The analysis of our students’ discourse demonstrates how their use of interpretive repertoires locks them in belief talk that they have no control over ecological issues, which can put them in the danger of falling prey to ecological passivity. As a consequence of our findings we suggest that teachers should be endorsed to interpret their teaching of environmental issues in terms of the enriching and enlarging of their students’ interpretive repertoires. 相似文献
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This ethnographic study of teaching and learning in urban high school science classes investigates the ways in which teachers
and students talk, gesture, and use space and time in interaction rituals. In situations where teachers coteach as a means
of learning to teach in inner-city schools, successful teacher-teacher collaborations are characterized by prosodic expressions
that converge over time and adapt to match the prosodic parameters of students’ talk. In these situations our ethnographic
data provide evidence of solidarity and positive emotions among the teachers and also between students and teachers. Unsuccessful
collaborations are associated with considerable differences in pitch between consecutive speakers participating in turns-at-talk,
these being related to the production of negative emotions and conflicts at longer time scales. Situational conflicts are
co-expressed by increases in pitch levels, speech intensities, and speech rates; and conflict resolution is accelerated by
the coordination of pitch levels. Our study therefore suggests that prosodic alignment and misalignment are resources that
are pragmatically deployed to manage face-to-face interactions that have solidarity and conflict as their longer-term outcomes. 相似文献
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We know that metacognitive students are successful in school (Sternberg Instructional Science 26:127–140, 1998). However, despite the recognition of the role of metacognition in student success, limited research has been done to explore
teachers’ explicit awareness of their metacognition and their ability to think about, talk about, and write about their thinking
(Zohar Teaching and Teacher Education 15:413-429, 1999). Therefore, the current study investigates teachers’ understanding of metacognition and their pedagogical understanding
of metacognition, and the nature of what it means to teach students to be metacognitive. One hundred-five graduate students
in education participated in this study. The data analysis results, using mixed research method, suggest that the participant’s
metacognitive knowledge had a significant impact on his/her pedagogical understanding of metacognition. The results revealed
that teachers who have a rich understanding of metacognition report that teaching students to be metacognitive requires a
complex understanding of both the concept of metacognition and metacognitive thinking strategies. 相似文献
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Peter M. Miller 《The Urban Review》2012,44(2):189-218
The author uses geospatial analysis to examine the “educational opportunity spaces” of two adjacent urban neighborhoods in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Organizing insights are gathered from Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) ecological perspectives on human development, which posit that students are significantly impacted by multiple environmental
systems—including their immediate family and school surroundings and several other mutually affective layers of systems. The
author suggests that while school and district-based reform initiatives targeting “within school factors” clearly have direct
and significant relevance on student performance, neighborhood and community factors are also worthy of consideration. Based
on analyses of multiple block-level data, several recommendations are made toward the further integration of school and community-based
practice. 相似文献
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Gillian Kidman 《Research in Science Education》2010,40(3):353-373
Of concern is an international trend of students’ increasing reluctance to choose science courses in both their final years
of secondary school and tertiary levels of education. Research into the phenomenon indicates an influencing factor to be the
‘uninteresting curriculum’ (OECD 2006) of school science. This paper presents an exploration of what biotechnology key ideas students and teachers consider to
be interesting. A survey was constructed and completed by 500 Australian students and their 35 teachers. Interviews were conducted
with a sample of students and teachers. The Chi-square statistics revealed a significant difference between the student and
teacher survey responses in four of the six a priori factors. A rank ordering of the key ideas, based on whole group mean
scores, indicates only a small overlap in modern biotechnology key ideas of interest to both the students and teachers. The
results suggest the key ideas teachers are interested in and incorporate into their curriculum, are not the key ideas students
are interested in learning about. This mismatch is particularly prevalent and problematic in situations where curriculum choice
is available within a mandated framework or syllabus, which is the case for these teachers and students. The study also found
students withdrawing from biology courses in post compulsory settings due to lack of interest and perceived lack of relevance
of the course. 相似文献
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Lena Hansson Andreas Redfors Maria Rosberg 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2011,20(4):388-402
In a European project—CoReflect—researchers in seven countries are developing, implementing and evaluating teaching sequences
using a web-based platform (STOCHASMOS). The interactive web-based inquiry materials support collaborative and reflective
work. The learning environments will be iteratively tested and refined, during different phases of the project. All learning
environments are focusing “socio-scientific issues”. In this article we report from the pilot implementation of the Swedish
learning environment which has an Astrobiology context. The socio-scientific driving questions are “Should we look for, and
try to contact, extraterrestrial life?”, and “Should we transform Mars into a planet where humans can live in the future?”
The students were in their last year of compulsory school (16 years old), and worked together in triads. We report from the
groups’ decisions and the support used for their claims. On a group level a majority of the student groups in their final
statements express reluctance towards both the search of extraterrestrial life and the terraforming of Mars. The support used
by the students are reported and discussed. We also look more closely into the argumentation of one of the student groups.
The results presented in this article, differ from earlier studies on students’ argumentation and decision making on socio-scientific
issues (Aikenhead in Science education for everyday life. Evidence-based practice. Teachers College Press, New York, (2006) for an overview), in that they suggest that students do use science related arguments—both from “core” and “frontier” science—in
their argumentation and decision making. 相似文献
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Hayo Siemsen 《Science & Education》2012,21(4):447-484
George Sarton had a strong influence on modern history of science. The method he pursued throughout his life was the method
he had discovered in Ernst Mach’s Mechanics when he was a student in Ghent. Sarton was in fact throughout his life implementing a research program inspired by the epistemology
of Mach. Sarton in turn inspired many others (James Conant, Thomas Kuhn, Gerald Holton, etc.). What were the origins of these
ideas in Mach and what can this origin tell us about the history of science and science education nowadays? Which ideas proved
to be successful and which ones need to be improved upon? The following article will elaborate the epistemological questions,
which Darwin’s “Origin” raised concerning human knowledge and scientific knowledge and which led Mach to adapt the concept
of what is “empirical” in contrast to metaphysical a priori assumptions a second time after Galileo. On this basis Sarton
proposed “genesis and development” as the major goal of Isis. Mach had elaborated this epistemology in La Connaissance et l’Erreur (Knowledge and Error), which Sarton read in 1913 (Hiebert 1905/1976; de Mey 1984). Accordingly for Sarton, history becomes not only a subject of science, but a method of science education. Culture—and science
as part of culture—is a result of a genetic process. History of science shapes and is shaped by science and science education
in a reciprocal process. Its epistemology needs to be adapted to scientific facts and the philosophy of science. Sarton was
well aware of the need to develop the history of science and the philosophy of science along the lines of this reciprocal
process. It was a very fruitful basis, but a specific part of it, Sarton did not elaborate further, namely the psychology
of science education. This proved to be a crucial missing element for all of science education in Sarton’s succession, especially
in the US. Looking again at the origins of the central questions in the thinking of Mach, which provided the basis and gave
rise to Sarton’s research program, will help in resolving current epistemic and methodological difficulties, contradictions
and impasses in science education influenced by Sarton. The difficulties in science education will prevail as long as the
omissions from their Machian origins are not systematically recovered and reintegrated. 相似文献
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Frans ?rsted Andersen 《Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability》2010,22(2):159-175
The research project presented in this article was designed to provide a better understanding of the stable and significant
differences in the PISA results between two otherwise very similar Nordic welfare states, Denmark and Finland. In the PISA
studies, Finnish students repeatedly achieve the highest Nordic (and partly worldwide) scores in e.g. reading, science and
math, while Danish students score lower. Even though Denmark has one of the world’s most expensive educational systems, the
OECD ranks the Finnish school system as the world’s best both in terms of quality and equity (OECD 2004). The basic research question is why these differences continue to persist. The case study methodology was mainly inspired by Kirsti Klette’s classroom research (Klette 2003) which involves both interviews and observations. Thus, the overall design could be labeled mixed methods (Johnson and Onwuegbuzie Educational Researcher, 33(7): 14-26, 2004). Five regular public schools in each country were sampled for the comparative classroom studies. The basic theoretical approaches
follow Hundeide’s theory of pedagogical communication and relations (2003) and Csikszentmihalyi’s flow-theory (1992). Both this study and statistical studies (S?rensen 2008) show that the difference in the Danish and Finnish PISA results mainly consists in the relatively better score by the lowest
scoring 25% of the Finnish pupils compared to the lowest scoring Danish quartile. The results of this study point to a number
of possible classroom related reasons why the Finnish school system can produce a better outcome for the lowest scoring quartile
of pupils. These reasons are presented and discussed in the article. The study underlines the need to focus more on good classroom
management in Denmark—and recommends further international, comparative research in order better to understand the huge differences
shown in large scale international programmes such as PISA, PIRLS and TIMMS. The study also reveal the need for more knowledge
about inclusive classroom practices, the use of teacher assistants and free, healthy school meals for all pupils. 相似文献
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This paper investigates regional Australian students’ aspirations and expectations for their future and, more specifically,
the manner in which these are formulated around a view to move outward — that is, away from regional, remote and rural communities
— and onward — that is, to make something of their lives. Drawing upon interview data, the paper highlights the ways in which
rural students from across Australia expressed high-level aspirations, most of which centred on future careers. It explores
features of student talk which demonstrates that many of them had thought about their futures in detailed ways and had accumulated
knowledge and “street savvy” that would assist them in steering their futures. The paper also examines the ways in which student
talk about the changing context of the world of work and the inescapability of further education emerge as a naturalised discourse
in justifying their future plans. Finally, the paper explores the implications of such research findings for career advisers
and teachers working in regional areas of Australia. 相似文献
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Conclusion Identify standards, align curricula, support technology—these are the three strategies that bring clarity to the process.
As technology changes, the standards, curricula and support must change. ACTIVStudio, interactive whiteboards and cyber diaries
are not just buzzwords — they are the new language of technology. The Citadel School of Education is paying attention — making
sense of the challenge of keeping current technology in educational leadership programs.
She is a former teacher and school administrator and currently teaches graduate courses, including microcomputers and school
management, to aspiring administrators.
Ms. Alice B. Hambright, a former public school teacher. 相似文献
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This study explored the effects that the incorporation of nature of science (NoS) activities in the primary science classroom
had on children’s perceptions and understanding of science. We compared children’s ideas in four classes by inviting them
to talk, draw and write about what science meant to them: two of the classes were taught by ‘NoS’ teachers who had completed
an elective nature of science (NoS) course in the final year of their Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) degree. The ‘non-NoS’ teachers
who did not attend this course taught the other two classes. All four teachers had graduated from the same initial teacher
education institution with similar teaching grades and all had carried out the same science methods course during their B.Ed
programme. We found that children taught by the teachers who had been NoS-trained developed more elaborate notions of nature
of science, as might be expected. More importantly, their reflections on science and their science lessons evidenced a more
in-depth and sophisticated articulation of the scientific process in terms of scientists “trying their best” and “sometimes
getting it wrong” as well as “getting different answers”. Unlike children from non-NoS classes, those who had engaged in and
reflected on NoS activities talked about their own science lessons in the sense of ‘doing science’. These children also expressed
more positive attitudes about their science lessons than those from non-NoS classes. We therefore suggest that there is added value in including NoS activities in the primary science curriculum in that they seem to help children make sense of science and
the scientific process, which could lead to improved attitudes towards school science. We argue that as opposed to considering
the relevance of school science only in terms of children’s experience, relevance should include relevance to the world of
science, and NoS activities can help children to link school science to science itself. 相似文献
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Vision II school science is often stated to be a democratic and inclusive form of science education. But what characterizes
the subject who fits into the Vision II school science? Who is the desirable student and who is constructed as ill-fitting?
This article explores discourses that structure the Vision II science classroom, and how different students construct their
identities inside these discourses. In the article we consider school science as an order of discourses which restricts and
enables what is possible to think and say and what subject-positions those are available and non-available. The results show
that students’ talk about a SSI about body and health is constituted by several discourses. We have analyzed how school science
discourse, body discourse and general school discourse are structuring the discussions. But these discourses are used in different
ways depending on how the students construct their identities in relation to available subject positions, which are dependent
on how students at the same time are “doing” gender and social class. As an example, middle class girls show resistance against
SSI-work since the practice is threatening their identity as “successful students”. This article uses a sociopolitical perspective
in its discussions on inclusion and exclusion in the practice of Vision II. It raises critical issues about the inherited
complexity of SSI with meetings and/or collisions between discourses. Even if the empirical results from this qualitative
study are situated in specific cultural contexts, they contribute with new questions to ask concerning SSI and Vision II school
science. 相似文献
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Elizabeth B. Moje 《科学教学研究杂志》1995,32(4):349-371
This paper builds on research in science education, secondary education, and sociolinguistics by arguing that high school classrooms can be considered speech communities in which language may be selectively used and imposed on students as a means of fostering academic speech community identification. To demonstrate the ways in which a high school teacher's language use may encourage subject area identification, the results of an interactionist analysis of data from a 2-year ethnographic study of one high school chemistry classroom are presented. Findings indicate that this teacher's uses of language fell into three related categories. These uses of language served to foster identification with the academic speech community of science. As a result of the teacher's talk about science according to these three patterns, students developed or reinforced particular views of science. In addition, talking about science in ways that fostered identity with the discipline promoted the teacher as expert and built classroom solidarity or community. These results are discussed in light of sociolinguistic research on classroom competence and of the assertions of science educators regarding social and ideologic implications of language use in science instruction. 相似文献
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Like many readers of this journal, I have long been an advocate of having science students introduced to philosophy of science.
In particular, influenced by the Philosophy for Children movement founded by Matthew Lipman, I have advocated such an introduction
as early as possible and have championed early secondary school as an appropriate place. Further, mainstream science curricula
in a number of countries have, for some time now, supported such introductions (albeit of a more limited sort) under the banner
of introducing students to the “Nature of Science”. In this paper, I explore a case against such introductions, partly in
role as “Devil’s Advocate” and partly exploring genuine qualms that have come to disturb me. Generally speaking, my judgement
is that no justification is available in terms of benefit to the individual or to society of sufficient weight to outweigh
the loss of freedom of choice involved in such forced learning. One possible exception is a minimalist and intellectually
passive “Nature of Science” introduction to some uncontroversial philosophical views about science.
An earlier version of this paper was presented to the Seventh International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science and Science Teaching, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg and subsequently published in its proceedings (see my 2003). I am grateful to those who engaged in discussion of the paper upon its presentation. I am also grateful to the advice of
this journal’s anonymous referees. 相似文献
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In this Forum paper we synthesize some of the main ideas from three papers: Auli Orlander and Per-Olof Wickman’s (Cult Stud
Sci 6, 2011), Bodily experiences in secondary school biology, Roger Sages’ (Cult Stud Sci Educ 6, 2011), About Descartes: Uses and misuses, and Steve Alsop’s (Cult Stud Sci Educ 6, 2011), The body bites back! These papers challenged us to identify how emotions functioned as elements of bodily experiences in classroom transactions
and why science teachers often are not responsive to students’ emoting. We also explored how teachers making use of curriculum and companion meanings could support the construction of learning
environments that more productively support students’ science learning. 相似文献
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Teaching students how to conduct authentic scientific inquiry is an essential aspect of recent science education reform efforts.
Our National Science Foundation-funded GK-12 program paired science graduate students—fellows—with secondary science teachers
in order to enhance inquiry-based instruction. This research examined the roles of the fellows, teachers, and school culture
in the implementation of inquiry and the fellows’ conceptions of classroom inquiry versus that in their own research. Qualitative
data were collected for two academic years. Overall, the classrooms shifted toward a more inquiry-oriented approach over the
academic year. Several aspects of school culture influenced inquiry implementation. Fellows described their research as similar
in overall structure but less constrained by known concepts, less guided by mentors, and more in-depth than that of secondary
school students. The teacher-fellow scientist partnership is a potentially effective professional development model to create
positive and lasting change within the science classroom. 相似文献