Title | Science Education Research in the Knowledge-Based Society [electronic resource] / edited by Dimitris Psillos, Petros Kariotoglou, Vassilis Tselfes, Evripides Hatzikraniotis, George Fassoulopoulos, Maria Kallery |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2003 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0165-5 |
Descript | XI, 481 p. online resource |
1: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Science Education Research -- Presidential Address: What can we reasonably expect of research in science education? -- Constructivism in science education: The need for a clear line of demarcation -- Overviews of the Research Presented at ESERA 2001 -- On the methodology of โphenomenographyโ as a science education research tool -- Conversation Theory and self-learning -- Analysis of video data of secondary school science students -- Longitudinal studies โ providing insight into individual themes in science learning and studentsโ views of their own learning -- Changing referential perspective in science classroom discourse -- 2:Learning and Understanding Science -- Studentsโ positions in physics education. A gendered perspective -- Situated conceptions and obstacles. The example of digestion/excretion -- About some of the difficulties in learning Thermodynamics at the University Level -- Metacognitive Experiences in the Domain of Physics: Developmental and Educational Aspects -- How children reason from data to conclusions in practical science investigations -- Mechanistic reasoning on the concept of wave surface, and on the Huygens principle -- Atomic Physics in Upper Secondary School: Layers of Conceptions in Individual Cognitive Structure -- The electric current on its way to our house and the parallel connection of the electric appliances: primary studentsโ (11โ12) representations -- Detailed Investigation of Professional Physicists Solving Physics Tasks -- Learning from writing in secondary science: A case study of studentsโ composing strategies -- Seventh-grade pupilsโ epistemic views in the context of model-based instruction -- Nonlinear Analysis of the Effect of Working-Memory Capacity on Student Performance in Problem Solving -- The Nature Of Growth In Childrenโs Science Understandings: Insights From A Longitudinal Study -- HOCS Problem solving Vs. LOCS exercise solving: What do college science students prefer? -- 3 :Teaching and Communicating Science -- Science and Technology Education: A high priority political concern in Europe -- A mesoscopic model of liquids for teaching fluids statics -- The importance of weightlessness and tides in teaching gravitation -- Making decisions about biological conservation issues in peer group discussion -- Discourse in the laboratory: quality in argumentative and epistemic operations -- Modelling the evolution of teaching -learning sequences: From discovery to constructivism -- Nonlinear Physics in Upper Physics Classes: Educational Reconstruction as a Frame for Development and Research in a Study of Teaching and Learning Basic Ideas of Nonlinearity -- Promoting Understanding through Representational Redescription: an exploration referring to young pupilsโ ideas about gravity -- Different types of classroom debates on biotechnology. Are these simply an exercise in rhetoric or do they encourage a well-founded critical attitude? -- 4: Science Education and Information and Communication Technologies -- WISE Research โ Promoting International Collaboration -- Research about the use of information technology in science education -- Physics Learning and Microcomputer Based Laboratory (MBL) โ Learning effects of using MBL as a technological and as a cognitive tool -- Phenomenographical Approach to Design for a Hypertext Teacherโs Guide to MBL -- Application of a framework appropriate for a multilevel assessment of educational multimedia software in science (FEVES) -- Brain Research in Science Education Research -- Computer modelling and simulation in science lessons: using research into teachersโ transformations to inform training -- 5: Science Teachers: Knowledge and Practices -- Exploring science teachersโ pedagogical content knowledge -- Relating research in didactics and actual teaching practice: impact and virtues of critical details -- Transforming the Standard Instrument for Assessing Science Teacherโs Self-Efficacy Beliefs (STEBI) For Use in Denmark -- Teachersโ confidence in primary science and teacher-student interactions -- Teachersโ views and attitudes towards the communication code and the rhetoric used in press science articles -- Science teachersโ perceptions of the current situation of planetary emergency -- 6: International Research and Development Projects -- A European Research Project for New Challenges in Science Teacher Training -- Quality Development Projects in Science Education -- Video-Based Studies on Investigating Deficiencies of School Science Teaching -- Authors Index