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Author | : W.W. Cobern |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1998-03-31 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780792349884 |
Tackles the question of whose interests are being served by the current science education practices and policies, and offers perspectives from culture, economics, epistemology, equity, gender, language, and religion. Promotes a reflective science education that takes place within people's cultural lives rather than taking it over. Among the topics are situating school science in a climate of critical cultural reform, the influence of language on teaching and learning science in a second language, a cultural history of science education in Japan, and the philosophy of science and radical intellectual Islam in Turkey. Of interest to students, researchers, and practitioners of education. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : W.W. Cobern |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9401152241 |
Global science education is a reality at the end of the 20th century - albeit an uneven reality - because of tremendous technological and economic pressures. Unfortunately, this reality is rarely examined in the light of what interests the everyday lives of ordinary people rather than the lives of political and economic elites. The purpose of this book is to offer insightful and thought-provoking commentary on both realities. The tacit question throughout the book is `Whose interests are being served by current science education practices and policies?' The various chapters offer critical analysis from the perspectives of culture, economics, epistemology, equity, gender, language, and religion in an effort to promote a reflective science education that takes place within, rather than taking over, the important cultural lives of people. The target audience for the book includes graduate students in education, science education and education policy professors, policy and government officials involved with education.
Author | : Nasser Mansour |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2013-06-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 940074563X |
Reflecting the very latest theory on diversity issues in science education, including new dialogic approaches, this volume explores the subject from a range of perspectives and draws on studies from around the world. The work discusses fundamental topics such as how we conceptualize diversity as well as examining the ways in which heterogeneous cultural constructs influence the teaching and learning of science in a range of contexts. Including numerous strategies ready for adoption by interested teachers, the book addresses the varied cultural factors that influence engagement with science education. It seeks answers to the question of why increasing numbers of students fail to connect with science education in schools and looks at the more subtle impact that students’ individually constructed identities have on the teaching and learning of science. Recognizing the diversity of its audience, the book covers differing levels and science subjects, and examines material from a range of viewpoints that include pedagogy, curricula, teacher education, learning, gender, religion, and ICT, as well as those of in-service and trainee teachers at all levels.
Author | : Klaus Holzkamp |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 2013-01-23 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1137296437 |
This book introduces the groundbreaking work of the German critical psychologist Klaus Holzkamp. In contrast to contemporary psychology's worldlessness, the writings present a concept of psychology based on the individual's relations to the world and open up new perspectives on human subjectivity, agency and the conduct of everyday life.
Author | : Alex Kozulin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 838 |
Release | : 2003-09-15 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1139440411 |
This 2003 book comprehensively covers all major topics of Vygotskian educational theory and its classroom applications. Particular attention is paid to the Vygotskian idea of child development as a consequence rather than premise of learning experiences. Such a reversal allows for new interpretations of the relationships between cognitive development and education at different junctions of the human life span. It also opens new perspectives on atypical development, learning disabilities, and assessment of children's learning potential. Classroom applications of Vygotskian theory are discussed in the book. Teacher training and the changing role of a teacher in a sociocultural classroom is discussed in addition to the issues of teaching and learning activities and peer interactions. Relevant research findings from the US, Western Europe, and Russia are brought together to clarify the possible new applications of Vygotskian ideas in different disciplinary areas.
Author | : Jussi Välimaa |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2008-01-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 140206604X |
This book analyses higher education from cultural perspectives and reflects on the uses of intellectual devices developed in the cultural studies of higher education over the last decades. It presents fresh perspectives to integrate cultural studies in higher education with wider societal processes and studies the internal life of higher education. The book uses cultural perspectives developed in previous studies to understand a variety of processes and reforms taking place.
Author | : Christopher Emdin |
Publisher | : Brill / Sense |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9789087909864 |
Christopher Emdin is an assistant professor of science education and director of secondary school initiatives at the Urban Science Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in urban education with a concentration in mathematics, science and technology; a master's degree in natural sciences; and a bachelor's degree in physical anthropology, biology, and chemistry. His book, Urban Science Education for the Hip-Hop Generation is rooted in his experiences as student, teacher, administrator, and researcher in urban schools and the deep relationship between hip-hop culture and science that he discovered at every stage of his academic and professional journey. The book utilizes autobiography, outcomes of research studies, theoretical explorations, and accounts of students' experiences in schools to shed light on the causes for the lack of educational achievement of urban youth from the hip-hop generation.
Author | : Maree DinanThompson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Curriculum planning |
ISBN | : 9780195562439 |
Takes a socio-critical approach to the area of Health and Physical Education. Analyses issues about development and implementation of the 'new' HPE curriculum. Maree Dinan Thompson from James Cook University, Australia.
Author | : Catherine Milne |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9400742401 |
The chapters included in this book address two major questions: what are some of the methodological and theoretical issues in sociocultural research in urban education and science education and what sort of questions do technological and virtual contexts raise for these types of research perspectives. The chapters build off Ken Tobin's personal history of sociocultural research in science education and as they do each chapter asks philosophical, sociological and/or methodological questions that inform our understanding of the challenges associated with conducting research in experiential and virtual contexts.
Author | : Helena Bilandzic |
Publisher | : Intellect Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Mass media |
ISBN | : 9781841505121 |
This collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media. Drawing on long traditions in both cultural studies and the social sciences, it brings together competing research approaches usually discussed separately. The topics include up-to-date research on activity and interactivity, media use as a social and cultural practice, and participation in a cultural, political, and technological sense. This volume incorporates current audience and reception studies and makes a significant contribution to the development of interdisciplinary approaches to audience and user studies.