This book takes stock of where we are in science education research, and considers where we ought now to be going. It explores how and whether the research effort in science education has contributed to improvements in the practice of teaching science and the science curriculum. It contains contributions from an international group of science educators.
Each chapter explores a specific area of research in science education, considering why this research is worth doing, and its potential for development. Together they look candidly at important general issues such as the impact of research on classroom practice and the development of science education as a progressive field of research.
Table of contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1 Researching teaching ani learning in science
Teaching situations
1 Why things fall: evidence and warrants for belief in a college astronomy course
2 Designing teaching situations in the secondary school
Assessing ani evaluating
3 Formative assessment and science education: a model and theorizing
4 National evaluation for the improvement of science teaching
Developing science teachers
5 Learning to teach science in the primary school
6 Managing science teachers' development
Theorizing learning
7 Status as the hallmark of conceptual learning
8 Analysing discourse in the science classroom
Section 2 Reviewing the role and purpose of science in the school curriculum
9 Providing suitable content in the ‘science for all’ curriculum
10 Interesting all children in ‘science for all’
11 Making the nature of science explicit
12 ‘Science for all’: time for a paradigm shift?
13 Science, views about science, and pluralistic science education
14 Renegotiating the culture of school science
Section 3 Researching science education
15 Research programmes and the student science learning literature
16 Goals, methods and achievements of research in science education
17 Didactics of science: the forgotten dimension in science education research?
18 Policy, practice and research: the case of testing and assessment
Notes on contributors
Index
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