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Bhaskar Upadhyay 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(3):569-586
This study draws upon a qualitative case study to investigate the impact of the high-stakes test environment on an elementary
teacher’s identities and the influence of identity maintenance on science teaching. Drawing from social identity theory, I
argue that we can gain deep insight into how and why urban elementary science teachers engage in defining and negotiating
their identities in practice. In addition, we can further understand how and why science teachers of poor urban students engage
in teaching decisions that accommodate school demands and students’ needs to succeed in high-stakes tests. This paper presents
in-depth experiences of one elementary teacher as she negotiates her identities and teaching science in school settings that
emphasize high-stakes testing. I found that a teacher’s identities generate tensions while teaching science when: (a) schools
prioritize high-stakes tests as the benchmark of teacher success and student success; (b) activity-based and participatory
science teaching is deemphasized; (c) science teacher of minority students identity is threatened or questioned; and (d) a
teacher perceives a threat to one’s identities in the context of high stakes testing. Further, the results suggest that stronger
links to identities generate more positive values in teachers, and greater possibilities for positive actions in science classrooms
that support minority students’ success in science.
Bhaskar Upadhyay is an assistant professor of science education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research focuses on equity and social justice issues in science education; sociocultural influences on teaching and learning of science; and issues of teaching and learning science to immigrant children and parents. He teaches courses concerning equity, diversity, social justice, and multicultural education issues in science teaching and learning. 相似文献
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Bhaskar Upadhyay is an assistant professor of science education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research focuses on equity and social justice issues in science education; sociocultural influences on teaching and learning of science; and issues of teaching and learning science to immigrant children and parents. He teaches courses concerning equity, diversity, social justice, and multicultural education issues in science teaching and learning. 相似文献
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Tara E. Higgins Michele W. Spitulnik 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2008,17(5):511-521
Professional development is critical in supporting teachers’ use of technological tools in classrooms. This review of empirical
research synthesizes the effective elements of professional development programs that support science teachers in learning
about technology integration. Studies are examined that explore how professional development supports technology use within
inquiry-based and traditional science instruction. Implications for future research are discussed in four areas: understanding
and building on teachers’ beliefs about science and technology; supporting teacher learning by supporting teachers’ examination
of students’ work; using technology to support teacher communities and social networks; and sustaining teachers’ learning
beyond formal professional development programs.
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In the learning sciences, students’ understanding of scientific concepts has often been approached in terms of conceptual change. These studies are grounded in a cognitive or a socio-cognitive approach to students’ understanding and imply a focus on the
individuals’ mental representations of scientific concepts and ideas. We approach students’ conceptual change from a socio-cultural
perspective as they make new meaning in genetics. Adhering to a socio-cultural perspective, we emphasize the discursive and
interactional aspects of human learning and understanding. This perspective implies that the focus is on students’ meaning
making processes in collaborative learning activities. In the study, we conduct an analysis of a group of students’ who interact
while working to solve problems in genetics. In our analyses we emphasize four analytical aspects of the students’ meaning
making: (a) the students’ use of resources in problematizing, (b) teacher interventions, (c) changes in interactional accomplishments,
and (d) the institutional aspect of meaning making. Our findings suggest that students’ meaning making surrounding genetics
concepts relates not only to an epistemic concern but also to an interactional and an institutional concern.
Anniken Furberg is a PhD student in education at InterMedia, the University of Oslo. After earning a master’s degree in education at the University of Oslo (1998) she spent four years working as a researcher at Telenor R&I. She still has her position in Telenor R&I but performs her PhD work on a daily basis at InterMedia, the University of Oslo. Her research interests include the socio-cultural approach to collaborative learning, socio-scientific issues, computer-supported learning, and analyses of students’ and teachers’ classroom talk. Hans Christian Arnseth is an associate professor/research director at the Network for IT-Research and Competence in Education, University of Oslo. In 2004 he earned his PhD in education at the University of Oslo. He currently works with initializing and coordinating national and international research programs related to ICT in education. His research explores computer-supported collaborative learning, computer gaming and learning, and analyses of students’ classroom interaction. 相似文献
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Anniken Furberg is a PhD student in education at InterMedia, the University of Oslo. After earning a master’s degree in education at the University of Oslo (1998) she spent four years working as a researcher at Telenor R&I. She still has her position in Telenor R&I but performs her PhD work on a daily basis at InterMedia, the University of Oslo. Her research interests include the socio-cultural approach to collaborative learning, socio-scientific issues, computer-supported learning, and analyses of students’ and teachers’ classroom talk. Hans Christian Arnseth is an associate professor/research director at the Network for IT-Research and Competence in Education, University of Oslo. In 2004 he earned his PhD in education at the University of Oslo. He currently works with initializing and coordinating national and international research programs related to ICT in education. His research explores computer-supported collaborative learning, computer gaming and learning, and analyses of students’ classroom interaction. 相似文献
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Mattias Lundin 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2007,16(5):369-377
This article sets out to examine how school science activities can encourage students’ participation while supporting a specific
science content. One ordinary class with 12-year-old students was chosen and their regular classroom work was studied without
intervention and with a minimum of interference. Lessons were video filmed, transcribed and analyzed focussing on the participants’
speech acts. It was found that students’ initiatives and experiences were important parts of their participation. The results
show how students’ participation was orchestrated with a science content by means of four different kinds of activities. The
activities are called ‘individual inventory of experiences’, ‘building a common platform of experiences’, ‘sharing new experiences’
and ‘concluding a common platform’. The activities form a foundation for participation in human biology topics. For example,
to ‘build a common platform of experiences’ seems to level out students’ different prerequisites for participating in subsequent
tasks. Furthermore, to ‘conclude a common platform’ implied a checkpoint of the shared new experiences. The activities support
students’ tentative use of scientific words as well as their learning of what counts as knowledge in the school science setting.
However, it can be questioned if the time spent on each separate activity is necessary or if similar achievements could be
made even if some activities were integrated. The question is open for further research.
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This survey study explored high school science teachers’ challenges and needs specific to their growing English language learning
(ELL) student population. Thirty-three science teachers from 6 English as a Second language (ESL)-center high schools in central
Virginia participated in the survey. Issues surveyed were (a) strategies used by science teachers to accommodate ELL students’
special needs, (b) challenges they experienced, and (c) support and training necessary for effective ELL instruction. Results
suggest that language barriers as well as ELL students’ lack of science foundational knowledge challenged teachers most. Teachers
perceived that appropriate instructional materials and pedagogical training was most needed. The findings have implications
for science teacher preservice and inservice education in regard to working with language minority students.
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Jesús and María in the jungle: an essay on possibility and constraint in the third-shift third space
Katherine Richardson Bruna 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(1):221-237
One hundred years ago, Upton Sinclair, in The Jungle, exposed the deplorable working conditions of eastern European immigrants in the meatpacking houses of Chicago. The backdrop
of this article is the new Jungle of the 21st century—the hog plants of the rural Midwest. Here I speak to the lives of the
Mexican workers they employ, and, more specifically, the science-learning experiences and aspirations of third-shifters, Jesús
and María. I use these students’ stories as an opportunity to examine the take-up, in education, of the concept of hybridity,
and, more particularly, to interrogate what I have come to regard as the “third space fetish.” My principle argument is that
Bhabha’s understanding of liberatory Third Space has been distorted, in education, through teacher-centered and power-neutral
multicultural discourse. I call for a more robust approach to hybridity in science education research, guided by the lessons
of possibility and constraint contained in Jesús’ and María’s third-shift third space lives.
Katherine Richardson Bruna is an Assistant Professor of Multicultural and International Curriculum Studies at Iowa State University. She does ethnographic research on the experiences of newcomer Mexican adolescents in science education, informed by her transnational work on a particular sender-receiver community relationship in the changing American heartland. 相似文献
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Katherine Richardson Bruna is an Assistant Professor of Multicultural and International Curriculum Studies at Iowa State University. She does ethnographic research on the experiences of newcomer Mexican adolescents in science education, informed by her transnational work on a particular sender-receiver community relationship in the changing American heartland. 相似文献
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Postcolonial foldings of space and identity in science education: limits, transformations, prospects
The four essays reviewed here constitute a worthwhile attempt to discuss various aspects of postcolonial theory, and offer
constructive ideas to ongoing academic as well as public conversations with respect to whether science education can meet
the challenges of educating an increasingly diverse population in the 21st century. These essays are grounded in the assumption
that it is difficult to make meaningful and transformative changes in science education so that educators’ efforts take into
consideration the dramatic changes (i.e., diverse culture and racial origins, language, economic status etc.) of ‘an era of
globalization’ in order to meet the demands of today’s schools. Each of these four essays problematizes various aspects of
the social and cultural conditions of science education nowadays using different ‘postcolonial’ ideas to interpret the implications
for science learning and teaching. Although the term ‘postcolonial’ has certainly multiple meanings in the literature, we
use this term here to describe the philosophical position of these essays to challenge long-standing and hegemonic practices
and taken-for-granted assumptions in science education. Through critical analysis of these essays, we engage in a dialogue
with the authors, focusing on two of what seem crucial issues in understanding the potential contributions as well as the
risks of postcolonial concepts in science education; these issues are space and identity. We choose these issues because they permeate all four essays in interesting and often provocative ways.
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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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Interviews with key scientists who had conducted research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), together with analysis
of media reports, documentaries and other literature published during and after the SARS epidemic, revealed many interesting
aspects of the nature of science (NOS) and scientific inquiry in contemporary scientific research in the rapidly growing field
of molecular biology. The story of SARS illustrates vividly some NOS features advocated in the school science curriculum,
including the tentative nature of scientific knowledge, theory-laden observation and interpretation, multiplicity of approaches
adopted in scientific inquiry, the inter-relationship between science and technology, and the nexus of science, politics,
social and cultural practices. The story also provided some insights into a number of NOS features less emphasised in the
school curriculum—for example, the need to combine and coordinate expertise in a number of scientific fields, the intense
competition between research groups (suspended during the SARS crisis), the significance of affective issues relating to intellectual
honesty and the courage to challenge authority, the pressure of funding issues on the conduct of research and the ‘peace of
mind’ of researchers, These less emphasised elements provided empirical evidence that NOS knowledge, like scientific knowledge
itself, changes over time. They reflected the need for teachers and curriculum planners to revisit and reconsider whether
the features of NOS currently included in the school science curriculum are fully reflective of the practice of science in
the 21st century. In this paper, we also report on how we made use of extracts from the news reports and documentaries on
SARS, together with episodes from the scientists’ interviews, to develop a multimedia instructional package for explicitly
teaching the prominent features of NOS and scientific inquiry identified in the SARS research.
Siu Ling Wong is an Assistant Professor, in the Division of Science, Mathematics and Computing in the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong. She received her B.Sc. from The University of Hong Kong and her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. Her research interests include promoting teachers’ and students’ understanding of nature of science and scientific inquiry, physics education, teacher professional development. Jenny Kwan is a PhD student in the Faculty of Education, at The University of Hong Kong. She received her B.Sc. from University of Sydney. She is now investigating in-service teachers’ classroom instruction on nature of science in relation to their intentions, beliefs, and pedagogical content knowledge. Derek Hodson is Professor of Science Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and Editor of the Canadian Journal of Science, Technology and Mathematics Education. His major research interests include: history, philosophy & sociology of science and its implications for science education; STSE education and the politicisation of science education; science curriculum history; multicultural and antiracist education; and science teacher education via action research. Benny Hin Wai Yung is Head, Associate Professor, in the Division of Science, Mathematics and Computing in the Faculty of Education at University of Hong Kong. His main research areas are teacher education and development, science education and assessment for science learning. His recent publications include Yung BHW (2006) Assessment reform in science education: fairness and fear. Springer, Dordrecht. 相似文献
Siu Ling WongEmail: |
Siu Ling Wong is an Assistant Professor, in the Division of Science, Mathematics and Computing in the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong. She received her B.Sc. from The University of Hong Kong and her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. Her research interests include promoting teachers’ and students’ understanding of nature of science and scientific inquiry, physics education, teacher professional development. Jenny Kwan is a PhD student in the Faculty of Education, at The University of Hong Kong. She received her B.Sc. from University of Sydney. She is now investigating in-service teachers’ classroom instruction on nature of science in relation to their intentions, beliefs, and pedagogical content knowledge. Derek Hodson is Professor of Science Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and Editor of the Canadian Journal of Science, Technology and Mathematics Education. His major research interests include: history, philosophy & sociology of science and its implications for science education; STSE education and the politicisation of science education; science curriculum history; multicultural and antiracist education; and science teacher education via action research. Benny Hin Wai Yung is Head, Associate Professor, in the Division of Science, Mathematics and Computing in the Faculty of Education at University of Hong Kong. His main research areas are teacher education and development, science education and assessment for science learning. His recent publications include Yung BHW (2006) Assessment reform in science education: fairness and fear. Springer, Dordrecht. 相似文献
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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
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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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Bringing a greater number of students into science is one of, if not the most fundamental goals of science education for all, especially for heretofore-neglected groups of society such as women and Aboriginal students. Providing students with opportunities
to experience how science really is enacted—i.e., authentic science—has been advocated as an important means to allow students to know and learn about science. The purpose of this paper is
to problematize how “authentic” science experiences may mediate students’ orientations towards science and scientific career
choices. Based on a larger ethnographic study, we present the case of an Aboriginal student who engaged in a scientific internship
program. We draw on cultural–historical activity theory to understand the intersection between science as practice and the
mundane practices in which students participate as part of their daily lives. Following Brad, we articulate our understanding
of the ways in which he hybridized the various mundane and scientific practices that intersected in and through his participation
and by which he realized his cultural identity as an Aboriginal. Mediated by this hybridization, we observe changes in his
orientation towards science and his career choices. We use this case study to revisit methodological implications for understanding
the role of “authentic science experiences” in science education.
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Michiel van EijckEmail: |
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Elisa L. Park 《Higher Education》2009,57(6):741-755
The purpose of this study is to understand the dynamics of Korean students’ international mobility to study abroad by using
the 2-D Model. The first D, the driving force factor, explains how and what components of the dissatisfaction with domestic higher education perceived by Korean students drives
students’ outward mobility to seek foreign higher education. The second D, the directional factor, describes the factors that influence the choice of destination country for students’ outward mobility, and is explained
by the comparison of Korean students’ perceptions on the images of universities in the U.S., China, the U.K., and Australia
and their expectations for higher education in each country (categorized as ‘academic’–‘environmental’). Two questionnaire
surveys were conducted to analyze the two D factors and the research findings were integrated into suggestions for each country’s
higher education institutions that can be incorporated into their recruitment strategies for international students.
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Ramón López-Facal María Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(3):689-695
This comment on L. Simonneaux and J. Simonneaux paper focuses on the role of identities in dealing with socio-scientific issues. We argue that there are two types of identities (social representations) influencing
the students’ positions: On the one hand their social representations of the bears’ and wolves’ identities as belonging to
particular countries (Slovenia versus France for bears, France and Italy for wolves), in other words, as having national identities;
on the other hand representations of their own identities as belonging to the field of agricultural practitioners, and so
sharing this socio-professional identity with shepherds and breeders, as opposed to ecologists. We discuss how these representations
of identities influenced students’ reasoning and argumentation, blocking in some cases the evaluation of evidence. Implications
for developing critical thinking and for dealing with SSI in the classrooms are outlined.
Ramón López-Facal is part-time lecturer on modern history in the University of Santiago de Compostela, sharing this affiliation with teaching high school History. In 1999 he completed one of the first doctoral dissertations in History Education in Spain, an examination of the teaching of the concept of nation through the analysis of textbooks from the XVIII to the XX centuries, and the analysis of students’ discourse about the concept of nation, and their representations of national identities. His research focuses on the school construction of national and post-national identities. He is the author of chapters about the “hidden” nation in S. Pérez-Garzón (Ed.) La Gestión de la Memoria: La Historia al Servicio del Poder (The Management of Memory: History in the Service of Power; Crítica 2000), and about the construction of critical identities in A. Legardez & L. Simonneaux L’école à l’épreuve de l’Actualité: Enseigner les Questions Vives (ESF 2006). María Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre is professor of science education in the University of Santiago de Compostela. After teaching high-school biology, implementing innovative curricula, and working in the Spanish Ministry of Education in the design of in-service teacher education, she was part of the first batch of Spanish researchers completing doctoral dissertations in science education around 1990 and building a community around this field in Spain. Her research explored conceptual change in evolution and then moved to argumentation in science classrooms, with particular attention to two contexts, problem-solving in the laboratory, and environmental and socio-scientific issues. She has served in the executive committee of ESERA and currently serves on the editorial boards of Science Education and Journal of Research in Science Teaching. Her recent work includes editing with S. Erduran Argumentation in Science Education: Perspectives from Classroom-based Research (Springer, 2008). 相似文献
María Pilar Jiménez-AleixandreEmail: |
Ramón López-Facal is part-time lecturer on modern history in the University of Santiago de Compostela, sharing this affiliation with teaching high school History. In 1999 he completed one of the first doctoral dissertations in History Education in Spain, an examination of the teaching of the concept of nation through the analysis of textbooks from the XVIII to the XX centuries, and the analysis of students’ discourse about the concept of nation, and their representations of national identities. His research focuses on the school construction of national and post-national identities. He is the author of chapters about the “hidden” nation in S. Pérez-Garzón (Ed.) La Gestión de la Memoria: La Historia al Servicio del Poder (The Management of Memory: History in the Service of Power; Crítica 2000), and about the construction of critical identities in A. Legardez & L. Simonneaux L’école à l’épreuve de l’Actualité: Enseigner les Questions Vives (ESF 2006). María Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre is professor of science education in the University of Santiago de Compostela. After teaching high-school biology, implementing innovative curricula, and working in the Spanish Ministry of Education in the design of in-service teacher education, she was part of the first batch of Spanish researchers completing doctoral dissertations in science education around 1990 and building a community around this field in Spain. Her research explored conceptual change in evolution and then moved to argumentation in science classrooms, with particular attention to two contexts, problem-solving in the laboratory, and environmental and socio-scientific issues. She has served in the executive committee of ESERA and currently serves on the editorial boards of Science Education and Journal of Research in Science Teaching. Her recent work includes editing with S. Erduran Argumentation in Science Education: Perspectives from Classroom-based Research (Springer, 2008). 相似文献
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The Impact of Student Self-efficacy on Scientific Inquiry Skills: An Exploratory Investigation in River City, a Multi-user Virtual Environment 总被引:4,自引:3,他引:1
Diane Jass Ketelhut 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2007,16(1):99-111
This exploratory study investigated data-gathering behaviors exhibited by 100 seventh-grade students as they participated
in a scientific inquiry-based curriculum project delivered by a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE). This research examined
the relationship between students’ self-efficacy on entry into the authentic scientific activity and the longitudinal data-gathering
behaviors they employed while engaged in that process. Three waves of student behavior data were gathered from a server-side
database that recorded all student activity in the MUVE; these data were analyzed using individual growth modeling. The study
found that self-efficacy correlated with the number of data-gathering behaviors in which students initially engaged, with
high self-efficacy students engaging in more data gathering than students with low self-efficacy. Also, the impact of student
self-efficacy on rate of change in data gathering behavior differed by gender. However, by the end of their time in the MUVE,
initial student self-efficacy no longer correlated with data gathering behaviors. In addition, students’ level of self-efficacy
did not affect how many different sources from which they chose to gather data. These results suggest that embedding science
inquiry curricula in novel platforms like a MUVE might act as a catalyst for change in students’ self-efficacy and learning
processes.
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Diane Jass KetelhutEmail: |
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Exploring the contexts of urban science classrooms. Part 1: Investigating corporate and communal practices 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Christopher Emdin 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2007,2(2):319-350
In this paper, I discuss the existence of varying ideologies and perspectives within urban science classrooms and uncover
the importance of focusing on student and teacher practices as a means to bridge these disconnections. Specifically, I describe
the existence of corporate and communal ideologies and the dynamics that create the misalignment between groups that hold
allegiances to these varying belief systems. Utilizing three allied theoretical frames, this paper provides a multi layered
and timely analysis of the teaching of science in an urban high school in New York City. I conjoin Bourdieu’s sociocultural
theory, an analysis of social life through the use of the structure|agency dialectic, and a theorizing of corporate and communal
practice to embark on a journey into how African American and Latino/a students’ ways of knowing and being can be utilized
to meet the goal of improving their success in science.
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Christopher EmdinEmail: |
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Eyvind Elstad 《Learning Inquiry》2008,2(1):53-71
Volitional issues are important in today’s classrooms where autonomous students are expected to manage school demands on their
own. A new kind of challenge has appeared with the advent of free Internet access in the classroom. Motivational conflicts
may therefore arise between (1) immediate rewards of electronic chatting, surfing, and games and (2) the long-term rewards
of academic achievement. Paradoxes of our educational system are emerging in the technology-rich classroom, for example, the
basic need of student autonomy versus dealing with constraints to regulate one’s own behaviour. The main purposes of this
article are, first, to discuss volitional issues on a theoretical level. Second, a field study is used to identify how students
are using volitional (or self-discipline) strategies in technology-rich laissez-faire classrooms. Third, how schools may design
institutional arrangements which can scaffold the student’s use of self-discipline strategies are discussed. The strategies
which are enumerated may contribute to school programs that are to build self-discipline. Understanding how to design institutional
features to influence students’ choices in directions that improve their academic achievement is one of the major challenges
in education.
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Eyvind ElstadEmail: |
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Meadow Schroeder Anne Mckeough Susan Graham Hayli Stock Gay Bisanz 《Research in Science Education》2009,39(2):231-250
Lifelong science literacy begins with attitudes and interests established early in childhood. The use of trade books (i.e.,
a literary work intended for sale to the general public) in North American school classrooms to support the development of
science literacy invites an examination of the quality of science content disseminated to students. A total of 116 trade books
were examined to: (a) determine the degree to which science trade books complement expected science knowledge outcomes outlined
in school curricula, and (b) compare trade book content to the goals of scientific literacy. Analysis across four science
topics, Dinosaurs, Space, Inheritance, and Growth and Life Properties, revealed that this body of children’s literature is
inconsistent in its coverage of curricular goals and elements of scientific literacy. Because trade books represent children’s
first exposure to science, these shortcomings should be addressed if these books are to be maximally effective in promoting
science literacy. Implications for using trade books in the classroom are discussed.
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Hayli StockEmail: |
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Ikseon Choi Kyunghwa Lee 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2009,57(1):99-129
This design-based research study is aimed at two goals: (1) developing a feasible case-based instructional model that could
enhance college students’ ill-structured problem solving abilities, while (2) implementing the model to improve teacher education
students’ real-world problem solving abilities to deal with dilemmas faced by practicing teachers in elementary classrooms.
To achieve these goals, an online case-based learning environment for classroom management problem solving (CBL-CMPS) was
developed based on Jonassen’s (in: Reigeluth (ed.) Instructional-Design Theories and Models: A New Paradigm of Instructional Theory, 1999) constructivist learning environment model and the general process of ill-structured problem solving (1997). Two successive
studies, in which the effectiveness of the CBL-CMPS was tested while the CBL-CMPS was revised, showed that the individual
components of the CBL-CMPS promoted ill-structured problem solving abilities respectively, and that the CBL-CMPS as a whole
learning environment was effective to a degree for the transfer of learning in ill-structured problem solving. The potential,
challenge, and implications of the CBL-CMPS are discussed.
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Ikseon ChoiEmail: |
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Gillian U. Bayne 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(3):559-567
This article reviews significant contributions made by Joe L. Kincheloe to critical research in science education, especially
through a multimethodological, multitheoretical, and multidisciplinary informed lens that incorporates social, cultural, political,
economic, and cognitive dynamics—the bricolage. Kincheloe’s ideas provide for a compelling understanding of, and insights
into, the forces that shape the intricacies of teaching and learning science and science education. They have implications
in improving science education policies, in developing actions that challenge and cultivate the intellect while operating
in ways that are more understanding of difference and are socially just.
Gillian U. Bayne is an assistant professor of science education at Lehman College, City University of New York. Having also completed a master’s degree in secondary science education at New York University, she has taught science both in New York City’s public school system and in independent schools for over 10 years. Gillian’s research interests are focused on the utilization of cogenerative dialogues with high school and college students, their teachers and other stakeholders to improve science teaching and learning. 相似文献
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Gillian U. Bayne is an assistant professor of science education at Lehman College, City University of New York. Having also completed a master’s degree in secondary science education at New York University, she has taught science both in New York City’s public school system and in independent schools for over 10 years. Gillian’s research interests are focused on the utilization of cogenerative dialogues with high school and college students, their teachers and other stakeholders to improve science teaching and learning. 相似文献