The concept mapping heuristic as viewed by some Australian and Indonesian science teachers

This paper reports a study on concept mapping involving 14 Australian and 9 Indonesian science teachers. After a training and practice session in concept mapping, the teachers were surveyed on four scales: “Learning it”, “Teaching it”, “Useability by students”, and “Perceived benefits”. While the teachers' attitudes were generally favourable interesting differences were discerned among scales, among teachers of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, and between countries. Specialization: Social psychology of science learning, eco-culture and metalearning in science. Specializations: Eco-culture and metalearning in science; distance education delivery systems.