"Teaching and Learning Science consists of sixty-six chapters written by more than ninety leading educators and scientists. The contributions are informed by cutting-edge theory and research and address numerous issues that are central to K? 12 education. This resource will be particularly valuable for parents and teachers as schools around the country prepare students to meet the challenges presented when science is added to the No Chil ..."
"Many would argue that the state of urban science education has been static for the past several decades and that there is little to learn from it. Rather than accepting this deficit perspective, Improving Urban Science Education strives to recognize and understand the successes that exist there by systematically documenting seven years of research into issues salient to teaching and learning in urban high school science classes. Grounde ..."
"Many would argue that the state of urban science education has been static for the past several decades and that there is little to learn from it. Rather than accepting this deficit perspective, Improving Urban Science Education strives to recognize and understand the successes that exist there by systematically documenting seven years of research into issues salient to teaching and learning in urban high school science classes. Grounde ..."
"Coteaching is two or more teachers teaching together, sharing responsibility for meeting the learning needs of students and, at the same time, learning from each other. Working as collaborators on every aspect of instruction, coteachers plan, teach and evaluate lessons together. Over the past decade, because coteaching can be highly beneficial to both students and teachers it has become an increasingly import ..."
"In this book various scholars explore the material in science and science education and its role in scientific practice, such as those practices that are key to the curriculum focuses of science education programs in a number of countries.As a construct, culture can be understood as material and social practice. This definition is useful for informing researchers' nuanced explorations of the nature of science and inclusive decisions abo ..."
"Women in science education are placed in a juxtaposition of gender roles and gendered career roles. Using auto/biography and auto/ethnography, this book examines the challenges and choices of academic women in science education and how those challenges have changed, or remained consistent, since women have become a presence in science education. The book's contributors span a temporal and spatial continuum and focus on how a variety of ..."
"Coteaching is two or more teachers teaching together, sharing responsibility for meeting the learning needs of students and, at the same time, learning from each other. Working as collaborators on every aspect of instruction, coteachers plan, teach and evaluate lessons together. Over the past decade, because coteaching can be highly beneficial to both students and teachers it has become an increasingly import ..."
"Women in science education are placed in a juxtaposition of gender roles and gendered career roles. Using auto/biography and auto/ethnography, this book examines the challenges and choices of academic women in science education and how those challenges have changed, or remained consistent, since women have become a presence in science education. The book's contributors span a temporal and spatial continuum and focus on how a variety of ..."
"Catherine Milne, Kathryn Scantlebury. 1 Introduction: Bringing Matter into
Science Education. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Kathryn Scantlebury and Catherine Milne Part I
Different Perspectives on Materials 2 The Materiality of Scientific Instruments and
Why ..."
"Several theoretical lenses explore coteching in this thorough overview of theories and practices involved. Differences in the varying styles and ideology are presented, as well as the commonalities varying coteaching contexts."
"Research and Practice Colette Murphy, Kathryn Scantlebury ... These risk-taking
efforts were in contrast to norms of teaching practice that reflect isolation in
practice and conservative pedagogy (Lortie 1975). Across both types of risks ...
6.1 The Public Nature of Coteaching Practice and Risk-Taking Lortie's (1975)
sociological study of the profession of teaching in the United States depicted the
work of teachers as isolated with ..."