Science Education Research and Practice in Europe: Retrospective and Prospective

Each volume in the 7-volume series The World of Science Education reviews research in a key region of the world. These regions include North America, South and Latin America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Arab States, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The focus of this Handbook is on science education in Europe. In producing this volume the editors have invited a range of authors to describe their research in the context of developments in the continent and further afield. In reading this book you are invited to consider the historical, social and political contexts that have driven developments in science education research over the years. A unique feature of science education in Europe is the impact of the European Union on research and development over many years.
A growing number of multi-national projects have contributed to the establishment of a community of researchers increasingly accepting of methodological diversity. That is not to say that Europe is moving towards homogeneity, as this volume clearly shows.

Justin Dillon is Professor of Science and Environmental Education at King's College London, UK.

Meg Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Education at King's College London, UK.

Contributors: Christopher Winch, Paul Black, Alan Cribb, Sharon Gewirtz, Bob Burstow, Gerard Lum, Pat Mahony, Louise Archer, Alex Manning, Peter Kutnick, Jill Hohenstein, Heather King, Jeremy Burke, Simon Coffey, Jeremy Hodgen, Chris Harrison, Chris Abbott, Roxy Harris, Constant Leung, Jenny Driscoll, Bethan Marshall, Mike Askew, Ann-Marie Brandom, Andrew Wright, Mike Poole, Peter Duncan, Melissa Glackin, Ian Stevenson, Simon Gibbons, Jane Jones, Philip Adey