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  • Material Practice and Materiality: Too Long Ignored in Science Education

    Series series Education (R0)
    In this book various scholars explore the material in science and science education and its role in scientific practice, such as those practices that are key to the curriculum focuses of science education programs in a number of countries.As a construct, culture can be understood as material and social practice. This definition is useful for informing researchers' nuanced explorations of the ... Read more

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  • Sociocultural Studies and Implications for Science Education

    The experiential and the virtual

    Series series Education (R0)
    The chapters included in this book address two major questions: what are some of the methodological and theoretical issues in sociocultural research in urban education and science education and what sort of questions do technological and virtual contexts raise for these types of research perspectives. The chapters build off Ken Tobin's personal history of sociocultural research in science ... Read more

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  • Teacher Educators Rethink Self-Assessment in Higher Education

    A Guide for the Perplexed

    Series Book 380 - Counterpoints
    This edited book provides readers with a guide for implementing self-assessment and self-evaluation that is based on a model implemented successfully in a diverse range of teacher education courses. Educators from disciplines as diverse as theater arts, early childhood, psychology, mathematics, and science education have adopted a model of self-assessment and self-evaluation that supports the ... Read more

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  • Improving Urban Science Education

    New Roles for Teachers, Students, and Researchers

    Series series Reverberations: Contemporary Curriculum and Pedagogy
    Many would argue that the state of urban science education has been static for the past several decades and that there is little to learn from it. Rather than accepting this deficit perspective, Improving Urban Science Education strives to recognize and understand the successes that exist there by systematically documenting seven years of research into issues salient to teaching and learning in ... Read more

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    "Spring in a Shropshire Abbey" by Lady Catherine Henrietta Milnes Gaskell is a captivating exploration of life in a rural English setting. The narrative unfolds within the serene backdrop of an abbey, where the changing seasons reflect the characters' emotional journeys. Gaskell's vivid descriptions bring the landscape to life, immersing readers in the beauty of springtime. The story intricately ... Read more

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  • Interpretive Research Design

    Concepts and Processes

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    Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of research from the positivist-centered training they receive. This book is an authoritative examination of the concepts and processes underlying the ... Read more

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