This textbook guides teachers in enacting science instruction to cultivate scientifically literate students in the elementary school. Ideal for pre-service and in-service science teachers, this book can be used in any elementary science methods cour...Lasīt vairāk
This engaging and practical book offers science teacher educators and K-12 science teachers alike the tools to engage in a dialogic mode of collaborative action research (D-CAR), a collaborative mode of action research focused on teachers experience...Lasīt vairāk
Volume III of this landmark synthesis of research offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art survey highlighting new and emerging research perspectives in science education. The Handbook of Research on Science Education Research, Volume III offers an...Lasīt vairāk
This engaging and practical volume looks at discourse strategies and how they can be used to facilitate and enhance science teaching and learning within the classroom context....Lasīt vairāk
In line with current reform efforts, including the Next Generation Science Standards, this volume offers concrete pathways to redirect attention away from activity-oriented and vocabulary-centered elementary science teaching and toward elementary sc...Lasīt vairāk
Bringing together international research on nature of science (NOS) representations in science textbooks, the unique analyses presented in this volume provides a global perspective on NOS from elementary to college level and discusses the practical...Lasīt vairāk
An indispensable tool biology teacher educators, researchers, graduate students, and practising teachers, this book presents up-to-date research, addresses common misconceptions, and discusses the pedagogical content knowledge necessary for effectiv...Lasīt vairāk
Informal and readable, this book draws on current research and theory in science education, literacy, and educational psychology, as well as the history and philosophy of science, to make its case for transforming the way science is taught....Lasīt vairāk
Answering calls in recent reform documents to shape instruction in response to students ideas while integrating key concepts and scientific and/or mathematical practices, this text presents the concept of responsive teaching, synthesizes existing re...Lasīt vairāk
Featuring the most up-to-date work from leading Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) scholars across the globe, this volume maps where PCK has been, where it is going, and how it now informs and enhances knowledge of science teachers professional kno...Lasīt vairāk
This readable and informative survey of key ideas about students thinking in science builds a bridge between theory and practice by offering clear accounts from research, and showing how they relate to actual examples of students talking about widel...Lasīt vairāk
Ths bk examines the role of aesthetic experience in learning science&in science education from the perspective of knowlecge as action&language use,based on the writings of John Dewey&Ludwig Wittgenstein.It offers a novel contribution to the current...Lasīt vairāk
Offering new ways to look at the key ideas and practices associated with promoting scientific literacy, this book takes a pragmatic and inclusive perspective on curriculum reform and learning and presents a future vision for science education resear...Lasīt vairāk
This guide for elementary science teacher educators outlines the theory, principles, and strategies they need to know in order to plan and carry out instruction for future elementary science teachers, and provides classroom examples anchored to thos...Lasīt vairāk
This volume brings together evidence-based approaches to interdisciplinary language arts and science instruction. Firmly grounded in the research showing cognitive parallels between the two subjects, and reflecting the many recommendations in recent...Lasīt vairāk
