Taking Science Home

Taking Science Home
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9463512330

This book narrates two teachers’ experiences creating and leading an elementary after-school science program at a public housing authority. The narrative employs a reflexive ethnographic approach to examine the reflections of each teacher during one academic year. The book explores the teachers’ understandings of socially just teaching, their pedagogical transformations, and a vision of how science as a discipline was important in terms of enacting a culturally sustaining pedagogy. The reflexive ethnographic perspective enables consideration of the implications of teachers’ positionality in teaching science to marginalized and/or underrepresented students in informal learning contexts. Through these examinations, the book explains how collaboration was vital in the teachers’ efforts to become insiders in the setting and engage in culturally sustaining pedagogy. The book also narrates the teachers’ development leading to articulation of a framework identified as the zone of pedagogical potential. Finally, the book uses the teachers’ reflections to consider the affordances of learning science. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications from this research for promoting equitable practices in informal settings, as well as the potential for those practices being useful in formal settings. Thus, the book should be of interest to researchers, teachers, educators, and students of education and in particular science education.

Taking Science to School

Taking Science to School
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2007-04-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0309133831

What is science for a child? How do children learn about science and how to do science? Drawing on a vast array of work from neuroscience to classroom observation, Taking Science to School provides a comprehensive picture of what we know about teaching and learning science from kindergarten through eighth grade. By looking at a broad range of questions, this book provides a basic foundation for guiding science teaching and supporting students in their learning. Taking Science to School answers such questions as: When do children begin to learn about science? Are there critical stages in a child's development of such scientific concepts as mass or animate objects? What role does nonschool learning play in children's knowledge of science? How can science education capitalize on children's natural curiosity? What are the best tasks for books, lectures, and hands-on learning? How can teachers be taught to teach science? The book also provides a detailed examination of how we know what we know about children's learning of scienceâ€"about the role of research and evidence. This book will be an essential resource for everyone involved in K-8 science educationâ€"teachers, principals, boards of education, teacher education providers and accreditors, education researchers, federal education agencies, and state and federal policy makers. It will also be a useful guide for parents and others interested in how children learn.

Taking Science to the Moon

Taking Science to the Moon
Author: Donald A. Beattie
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003-08-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801874406

"Transports the reader behind NASAs facade, and into the 1960s' politics, planning sessions, turf battles, camaraderie, and jealousies of the world's major space agency. An absorbing, insightful, and revealing critical history." -- The Observatory

Primary Science

Primary Science
Author:
Publisher: Frank Brothers
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2002
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9788171707379

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1328
Release: 1930
Genre: Vocational education
ISBN:

Homes

Homes
Author: Chris Oxlade
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1410944883

Learn about the different types of materials and appliances that are in the many different types of homes.

Methods of Teaching Life Sciences

Methods of Teaching Life Sciences
Author: G.B. Lakshmi
Publisher: Discovery Publishing House
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2004
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9788171418046

Contents: Introduction, The Conception, Fundamental Issues, Structural Setup, Objectives and Goals, Methods of Teaching, Teaching Aids, Systematic Learning, The Curriculum, Planning the Lessons, The Practicals, Assessment Process, Extra Curricular Programmes, Search for Talent, Teacher s Role.

Forensic Identification and Criminal Justice

Forensic Identification and Criminal Justice
Author: Carole McCartney
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134013302

This book provides an account of the development of forensic identification technologies and the way in which this has impacted upon the legal system. It traces the advent of forensic identification technologies, focusing on fingerprinting and forensic DNA typing, and their growing deployment within the criminal justice system. It also elucidates the ways in which these new technologies are accelerating procedural changes to investigative practices, and shows the ways in which in some areas human rights (such as privacy rights and rights against discrimination) are coming under threat. The use of forensic evidence in criminal investigations and trials is analysed in detail. This book uncovers the way in which this new reliance on forensic technologies has gained a foothold within the criminal justice system, and the risks and dangers that this can pose. The National DNA Database provides a particular focus of attention. The author seeks to move beyond an approach that has seen forensic DNA profiling as error free, situating her analysis within broader risk discourses.

PISA Are Students Ready to Take on Environmental Challenges?

PISA Are Students Ready to Take on Environmental Challenges?
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2022-12-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9264933581

Are Students Ready to Take on Environmental Challenges? identifies the types of education policy and practices that can help students build an environmentally sustainable future.