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Publikováno v:
Teaching and Teacher Education. 27:871-879
This paper explores aspects of professional development for teachers of science and mathematics in schools in rural Australia. The study identified a range of issues including tensions between government, school and individual professional learning p
Autor:
Valda Kirkwood, Beverley Bell, David Symington, Fred Biddulph, John D. Pearson, Alister Jones, Miles Barker, Malcolm Carr
Publikováno v:
The Content Of Science: A Constructivist Approach To Its Teaching And learning ISBN: 9781315831558
Through a comparison of the widely-held traditional view of science with the constructivist view of science, we argue that the constructivist view of the content of science has important implications for classroom teaching and learning. This alternat
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Autor:
Valda Kirkwood, Tim Hardy
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Science Education. 16:231-251
The paper examines a relatively neglected area: the role of the science education tutor in creating an environment that will encourage and enable teachers and student teachers to learn effectively. The discussion is based on the experiences of the au
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International Journal of Science Education. 15:213-219
This paper was designed to investigate an educational change process by introducing science teachers in Sierra Leone to an innovative approach to teaching science at the junior secondary school level. The aim was to help teachers develop a science cu
Autor:
Valda Kirkwood, Malcolm Carr
Publikováno v:
Research in Science Education. 20:41-47
Discussion of the need for an understanding of the philosophy of science to inform classroom practice is mostly directed at clarifying the nature of science, the history of science, the nature of scientific evidence, and the nature of scientific meth
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Research in Science Education. 20:142-151
The aim of the Primary and Early Childhood Science and Technology Education Project (PECSTEP) is to improve teaching and learning in science and technology of by increasing the number of early childhood and primary teachers who are effective educator
Publikováno v:
Research in Science Education. 20:31-40
The Centre for Science and Mathematics Education Research at the University of Waikato is now undertaking the fourth Learning in Science Project, LISP(Teacher Development). The project builds on the findings of the previous three projects on the natu
Autor:
David Symington, Valda Kirkwood
Publikováno v:
Research in Science Education. 22:260-262
What is written in reports to parents can provide insight into the perceptions of teachers of the various areas of the primary school curriculum. This paper reports the first stage of a research project focussing on reports as a guide to teachers' vi
Autor:
Valda Kirkwood, David Symington
Publikováno v:
Journal of Chemical Education. 73:339
This paper addresses the question of how the staff involved in the teaching of a first-year chemistry course define the problems experienced by the students in the course. All of the staff involved in the teaching of first-year chemistry in a relativ
Autor:
Malcolm Carr, Valda Kirkwood
Publikováno v:
Physics Education. 23:86-91
The Learning in Science Project (Energy), abbreviated to LISP (Energy), is a three-year project funded by the New Zealand Department of Education to investigate teaching and learning about the energy concept in New Zealand primary and secondary schoo