Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Study & Teaching

A team of researchers centred at the University of Melbourne, each with particular areas of expertise, contributed their analyses of a shared collection of videotape, interview, and documentary data. The result is a variegated picture of science and mathematics classrooms that challenges a research tradition that converges on the truth. In this book, we surround you with different images of the classroom. It is hoped that some will address issues of interest, some will confirm beliefs you have long held, some will challenge these same beliefs, and some may surprise you.

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Focuses on teacher development, teacher research, student enrichment, and systemic programs that support improvements in science and mathematics education.

A resource guide to curriculum materials that incorporates workplace experiences in science, mathematics, and technology education.

A resource guide to curriculum materials that incorporates workplace experiences in science, mathematics, and technology education.

Intended as an enjoyable and stimulating read, as opposed to a comprehensive summary of everything ever written about equity in science education, it is a response to the new science education standards and reforms, with their goal of science...

Specifically, the goals of the text are to:

*help secondary- and college-level science faculty examine and redefine their roles in the classroom;

*define for science teachers a framework for thinking about active learning and the creation of an active learning environment; and

*provide them with the assistance they need to begin building successful active learning environments in...

Technology, a product of science, is pushing against the linear boundaries of traditional storytelling. Moving in the direction of multiform stories and digital formats takes literacy well beyond the 3Rs. Students increasingly need to be critical and creative users of the new media. As the Internet becomes faster, more visually powerful, and easier to manipulate there will be an explosion of virtual environments, with literacy taking on a whole new meaning. While the word literacy has become almost synonymous with the word competence, the authors prefer the definitions found in the new...