Educational Program Components, Psychology of Education, Effective Teaching, Teaching - Science & Technology, Cognitive Psychology
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Overview
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.Editorials
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Hodson (science education, U. of Toronto) discusses how the goal of critical scientific literacy can be achieved by all students through personalization. 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 act as facilitator, co-learner, and anthropologist. Later chapters describe how these theoretical arguments are translated into classroom practice through a coherent inquiry-oriented pedagogy, involving a more critical and wide-ranging use of hands-on and language-based learning than is usual on science education. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
December 1, 1998
Publisher
Buckingham ; Open University Press, 1998.
Pages
210
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780335201150