EBOOK: TEACHING AND LEARNING SCIENCE

EBOOK: TEACHING AND LEARNING SCIENCE
ISBN-10
0335231799
ISBN-13
9780335231799
Series
EBOOK
Category
Education
Pages
210
Language
English
Published
1998-12-16
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Author
Derek Hodson

Description

This book extends and unifies recent debate and research about science education in several disparate fields, including philosophy of science, cognitive psychology and motivation theory. Through an approach based on the personalization of learning and the politicization of the curriculum and classroom, it shows how the complex goal of critical scientific literacy can be achieved by all students, including those who traditionally underachieve in science or opt out of science education at the earliest opportunity. Current thinking in situated cognition and learning through apprenticeship are employed to build a sociocultural learning model based on a vigorous learning community, in which the teacher acts as facilitator, co-learner and anthropologist. Later chapters describe how these theoretical arguments can be translated into effective classroom practice through a coherent inquiry-oriented pedagogy, involving a much more critical and wide-ranging use of hands-on and language-based learning than is usual in science education.

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