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Constructing Representations to Learn in Science Current research into student learning in science has shifted attention from the traditional cognitivist perspectives of conceptual change to socio-cultural and semiotic perspectives that characterize learning in terms of induction into disciplinary literacy practices. This book builds on recent interest in the role of representations in learning to argue for a pedagogical practice based on students actively generating and exploring representations. The book describes a sustained inquiry in which the authors worked with primary and secondary teachers of science, on key topics identified as problematic in the research literature. Data from classroom video, teacher interviews and student artifacts were used to develop and validate a set of pedagogical principles and explore student learning and teacher change issues. The authors argue the theoretical and practical case for a representational focus. The pedagogical approach is illustrated and explored in terms of the role of representation to support quality student learning in science. Separate chapters address the implications of this perspective and practice for structuring sequences around different concepts, reasoning and inquiry in science, models and model based reasoning, the nature of concepts and learning, teacher change, and assessment. The authors argue that this representational focus leads to significantly enhanced student learning, and has the effect of offering new and productive perspectives and approaches for a number of contemporary strands of thinking in science education including conceptual change, inquiry, scientific literacy, and a focus on the epistemic nature of science.

Science -- Study and teaching. --- Science --- Study and teaching. --- Science education --- Scientific education --- Education. --- Education, general. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Education

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This unique book explores school improvement policy – from its translation into national contexts and school networks to its implementation in leader and teacher practices in individual schools and classrooms within this network of schools and its impact on students’ learning. It draws on multiple conceptual and theoretical resources to explore the complexities attached to a school improvement process in a network of schools in Australia. These conceptual and theoretical resources include discourse, practice, representation and network, concepts common to both policy research as well as studies of leadership and classroom practice. They lead to a more detailed understanding of the intersections between educational policy and intervention processes, and the complex reality of school processes and teaching practices. In the book we trace the implementation of school improvement policies through its multiple phases, levels and contexts. Our data-collection and analysis methods draw on a variety of perspectives in the way different players perceive their roles and the nature of the initiative and the ways in which these intersect. The research findings are used to seek productive approaches to school improvement that combine policy integrity with local flexibility. The book contributes to the school improvement literature through its exploration of tensions between global and systemic settings and local practices and histories.

Education. --- International education. --- Comparative education. --- Educational policy. --- ducation and state. --- Teaching. --- Child development. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- Childhood Education. --- Teaching and Teacher Education. --- Professional & Vocational Education. --- International and Comparative Education. --- School improvement programs. --- School management and organization. --- Educational administration --- Inspection of schools --- School administration --- School inspection --- School operation policies --- School organization --- Schools --- Improvement programs, School --- Instructional improvement programs --- Programs, School improvement --- School self-improvement programs --- Inspection --- Management and organization --- Educational planning --- Management --- School management and organization --- Early childhood education. --- Early Childhood Education. --- Education --- Education and state. --- Professional education. --- Vocational education. --- International education . --- Education, Comparative --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- Education, Vocational --- Vocational training --- Work experience --- Technical education --- Education, Professional --- Career education --- Education, Higher --- Didactics --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- School teaching --- Schoolteaching --- Instructional systems --- Pedagogical content knowledge --- Training --- Child study --- Children --- Development, Child --- Developmental biology --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- History --- Development --- Government policy

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Constructing Representations to Learn in Science Current research into student learning in science has shifted attention from the traditional cognitivist perspectives of conceptual change to socio-cultural and semiotic perspectives that characterize learning in terms of induction into disciplinary literacy practices. This book builds on recent interest in the role of representations in learning to argue for a pedagogical practice based on students actively generating and exploring representations. The book describes a sustained inquiry in which the authors worked with primary and secondary teachers of science, on key topics identified as problematic in the research literature. Data from classroom video, teacher interviews and student artifacts were used to develop and validate a set of pedagogical principles and explore student learning and teacher change issues. The authors argue the theoretical and practical case for a representational focus. The pedagogical approach is illustrated and explored in terms of the role of representation to support quality student learning in science. Separate chapters address the implications of this perspective and practice for structuring sequences around different concepts, reasoning and inquiry in science, models and model based reasoning, the nature of concepts and learning, teacher change, and assessment. The authors argue that this representational focus leads to significantly enhanced student learning, and has the effect of offering new and productive perspectives and approaches for a number of contemporary strands of thinking in science education including conceptual change, inquiry, scientific literacy, and a focus on the epistemic nature of science.

Teaching --- Teaching --- onderwijs --- onderwijs

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This book explores innovative approaches to teacher professional learning, examples of teaching enacted in classrooms, and factors affecting the promotion of quality teaching in socio-scientific issues and sustainability contexts. Since educational settings and cultures influence teaching, the different approaches and perspectives in various cross-national contexts enable us to appreciate the diversity of different countries' practices and provide insight into seminal approaches to socio-scientific issues-based teaching internationally. The book consists of three parts: innovative professional development programs, innovative teaching approaches, and issues relating to student engagement with socio-scientific issues and sustainability education. The book targets those who can be expected to develop curriculum, enact teaching practices, and facilitate teachers' professional development in socio-scientific issues and sustainability education.

Teacher education. Teacher's profession --- Didactics of sciences --- Nature protection --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- natuureducatie --- wetenschappen --- natuurbescherming --- lerarenopleiding --- lesgeven

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Environmental education. --- Teachers --- Training of. --- Teacher education --- Teacher training --- Teachers, Training of --- Education --- Educació ambiental --- Formació del professorat --- Formació d'educadors --- Formació dels mestres --- Perfeccionament del professorat --- Formació --- Escoles normals --- Observació (Mètode d'ensenyament) --- Pràctiques pedagògiques --- Professors --- Educació ecològica --- Educació mediambiental --- Educació --- Alfabetització ambiental --- Colònies escolars