Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Study & Teaching

This book is about imaginative approaches to teaching and learning school science. Its central premise is that science learning should reflect the nature of science, and therefore be approached as an imaginative/creative activity. As such, the book can be seen as an original contribution of ideas relating to imagination and creativity in science education.
The approaches discussed in the book are storytelling, the experience of wonder, the development of romantic understanding, and creative science, including science through visual art, poetry and dramatization. However, given the...

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Der Band erschliet erstmals systematisch die schreibtechnischen Anforderungen an Qualifikationsschriften in den natur- und ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Fachergruppen. Dabei werden nahezu alle relevanten Themen und Debatten der aktuellen Forschung zum Wissenschaftlichen Schreiben aufgegriffen und zugleich auf ihre Praxistauglichkeit hin diskutiert. Die beitragenden Autoren dokumentieren so erstmals den aktuellen Forschungsstand der uberfachlichen Schreibforschung und geben einen grundlegenden Einblick in die Praxis der gegenwartigen Schreibdidaktik. Auch im Blick auf alternative...

Science Education: A Global Perspective is global both in content and authorship. Its 17 chapters by an assemblage of seasoned and knowledgeable science educators from many parts of the world seek to bring to the fore current developments in science education and their implications. The book thus covers a wide range of topics in science education from various national and international perspectives. These include the nature of science, science and religion, evolution, curriculum and pedagogy, context-based teaching and learning, science and national development, socially-responsible...

This edited volume explores how primary school teachers create rich opportunities for science learning, higher order thinking and reasoning, and how the teaching of science in Australia, Germany and Taiwan is culturally framed. It draws from the international and cross-cultural science education study EQUALPRIME: Exploring quality primary education in different cultures: A cross-national study of teaching and learning in primary science classrooms. Video cases of Year 4 science teaching were gathered by research teams based at Edith Cowan University, Deakin University, the Freie...