Teaching And Learning Science - Softcover

Hodson, Derek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335201156 ISBN 13: 9780335201150

Publisher: Open University Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Derek Hodson has thirty years experience in science education. After ten years teaching science in secondary schools in England, Scotland and Wales, he spent eight years working in pre-service teacher education at the University of Manchester. In 1991, following six years teaching science education and curriculum theory at the University of Auckland, he was appointed Professor of Science Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto. He has very wide research interests, including innovative forms of teacher education, and has published extensively in science education journals in UK, United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

Review

"...a well-produced and effectively edited examination of a wide range of issues concerned with children's acquisition of the fundamental concepts of number." - Mathematics in School "...the book includes plenty of clear suggestions for practical action in the classroom. The style of writing throughout is clear and accessible. This is the kind of book that gives educational research a good name...Don't be fooled by the comfortable familiarity of thetitle. This is a radical and influential book, that ought to be read and acted upon, and that will continue to be quoted and discussed for some time to come" - T.E.S. "This is an outstanding book...I strongly recommend this book both for its analysis ofearly years mathematics and for the originality of the suggestedclassroom activities. It is an essential resource for early years teachers, primary teachers and teachers of special educationalneeds throughout the age groups." - Equals "This book will be useful for making teachers reflect on and analyse both their practice and strategies and to question theirassumptions on children's competencies. It is suitable as a reference of other sources for teachers in training, academics and advisors." - Child Education

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335201156
• ISBN 13: 9780335201150
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208