Complexity and Simplicity in Science Education

Complexity and Simplicity in Science Education

Geelan, David; Nichols, Kim; McDonald, Christine V.

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

01/2022

218

Dura

Inglês

9783030790837

15 a 20 dias

512

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Introduction (David Geelan and Kim Nichols).- Part I: Learning About Wicked Problems.- Chapter 1. Climate change education: Simple or complex? The impact of culture on students' willingness to reduce global warming (Keith Skamp, Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet).- Chapter 2. Investigating students' self-efficacy and self-concept in science through collaborative inquiry: Unpacking the 'hidden' complexity within data (Debra Panizzon, Bruce White, Katrina Elliott and Alex Semmens).- Chapter 3. Using Socioscientific Issues to Promote the Critical Thinking Skills of Year 10 Science Students in Diverse School Contexts (Vaille Dawson And Grady Venville).- Part II: Teacher Preparation and Retention: Supporting Early-Career Science Teachers.- Chapter 4. Chicken wings and a deflated football: Metaphors of the complexity of learning to teach science and mathematics out-of-field (Linda Hobbs and Frances Quinn).- Chapter 5. Teacher Retention: Supporting Early-Career Science Teachers (MerrynDawborn-Gundlach).- Chapter 6. Exploring the Nature, and Teachers' Understanding, of the National Curriculum Statement (NCS, Grades R - 12): Navigating the Changing Landscape of Science Education through the Curriculum Assessment and Policy Statement (CAPS) in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Julius Ajayi Eyitayo).- Part III: Making the Complexities of Physical Sciences Accessible.- Chapter 7. Teaching electricity to Year 6 primary students using representational pedagogies: from simple circuits to complex ideas (Peter Hubber and Christine Preston).- Chapter 8. Complexity in primary children's representations of Science and Mathematics concepts (Christine Preston, Jennifer Way and Eleni Smyrnis).- Chapter 9. Making the complex history of chemistry accessible: Edgar Fahs Smith (1854-1928), chemical researcher, administrator, educator, and student of chemistry's history (William P. Palmer).- Chapter 10. Can the complexities of developing students' literacy skills around physical science concepts benefit from a singular approach to teaching academic vocabulary? (Chris Nielsen).- Index.
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Science Education;STEM education;science educators;Science Teaching;Environmental education;challenges for educators;Physics Students in Madrasah;Culture-Based Science Literacy;Supporting Early-Career Science Teachers;Problem Based Learning in science;climate change education;Teaching Electricity Using Representational Pedagogies;teaching out-of-field science;History and philosophy of chemistry education;wicked problems;Learning science;preparing tomorrows citizens