Internationally renowned and award-winning author John Gilbert has spent the last thirty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the central and enduring issues in science education. He has contributed over twenty books and 400 articles to the field and is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Science Education. For the first time he brings together sixteen of his key writings in one volume. This unique book highlights important shifts in emphasis in science education research, the influence of important individuals and matters of national and international concern. All this is interwoven in the following four themes:  explanation, models and modeling in science education relating science education and technology education informal education in science and technology  alternative conceptions and science education.  

Constructing Worlds through Science Education: The Selected Works of John Gilbert (World Library of Educationalists)

Politics & Social Sciences

Gilbert, John K.

Sociology

Routledge

Internationally renowned and award-winning author John Gilbert has spent the last thirty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the central and enduring issues in science education. He has contributed over twenty books and 400 articles to the field and is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Science Education. For the first time he brings together sixteen of his key writings in one volume. This unique book highlights important shifts in emphasis in science education research, the influence of important individuals and matters of national and international concern. All this is interwoven in the following four themes: <ul>
<li>explanation, models and modeling in science education</li> <li>relating science education and technology education</li> <li>informal education in science and technology </li> <li>alternative conceptions and science education.</li>
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Constructing Worlds through Science Education: The Selected Works of John Gilbert (World Library of Educationalists) (Paperback)

Science & Math

Constructing Worlds Through Science Education: The Selected Works of John K. Gilbert

Supporting Self-Directed Learning in Science and Technology Beyond the School Years (Teaching and Learning in Science Series)

While much has been written about science education from pre-K through to postgraduate study, interaction with science and technology does not stop when schooling ends. Moving beyond scholarship on conventional education, this book extends the research and provides an original in-depth look at adult and lifelong learning in science and technology. By identifying the knowledge and skills that individuals need to engage in self-directed learning, the book highlights how educators can best support adult learners beyond the years of formal schooling. Through case studies and empirical analysis, the authors offer a research-based exploration of adults’ self-directed learning and provide tools to support adults’ learning experiences in a wide range of environments while being inclusive of all educational backgrounds.

Rennie, Léonie J.

Stocklmayer, Susan M.

Science for Kids

While much has been written about science education from pre-K through to postgraduate study, interaction with science and technology does not stop when schooling ends. Moving beyond scholarship on conventional education, this book extends the research and provides an original in-depth look at adult and lifelong learning in science and technology. By identifying the knowledge and skills that individuals need to engage in self-directed learning, the book highlights how educators can best support adult learners beyond the years of formal schooling. Through case studies and empirical analysis, the authors offer a research-based exploration of adults’ self-directed learning and provide tools to support adults’ learning experiences in a wide range of environments while being inclusive of all educational backgrounds.

This book argues that modelling should be a component of all school curricula that aspire to provide ‘authentic science education for all’. The literature on modelling is reviewed and a ‘model of modelling’ is proposed. The conditions for the successful implementation of the ‘model of modelling’ in classrooms are explored and illustrated from practical experience. The roles of argumentation, visualisation, and analogical reasoning, in successful modelling-based teaching are reviewed. The contribution of such teaching to both the learning of key scientific concepts and an understanding of the nature of science are established. Approaches to the design of curricula that facilitate the progressive grasp of the knowledge and skills entailed in modelling are outlined. Recognising that the approach will both represent a substantial change from the ‘content-transmission’ approach to science teaching and be in accordance with current best-practice in science education, the design of suitable approaches to teacher education are discussed. Finally, the challenges that modelling-based education pose to science education researchers, advanced students of science education and curriculum design, teacher educators, public examiners, and textbook designers, are all outlined.

Modelling-based Teaching in Science Education (Models and Modeling in Science Education, 9)

Justi, Rosária

Springer

This book argues that modelling should be a component of all school curricula that aspire to provide 'authentic science education for all'. The literature on modelling is reviewed and a 'model of modelling' is proposed. The conditions for the successful implementation of the 'model of modelling' in classrooms are explored and illustrated from practical experience. The roles of argumentation, visualisation, and analogical reasoning, in successful modelling-based teaching are reviewed. The contribution of such teaching to both the learning of key scientific concepts and an understanding of the nature of science are established. Approaches to the design of curricula that facilitate the progressive grasp of the knowledge and skills entailed in modelling are outlined. Recognising that the approach will both represent a substantial change from the 'content-transmission' approach to science teaching and be in accordance with current best-practice in science education, the design of suitable approaches to teacher education are discussed. Finally, the challenges that modelling-based education pose to science education researchers, advanced students of science education and curriculum design, teacher educators, public examiners, and textbook designers, are all outlined.

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Constructing Worlds through Science Education: The Selected Works of John Gilbert (World Library of Educationalists)

Constructing Worlds through Science Education: The Selected Works of John Gilbert (World Library of Educationalists) (Paperback)

Constructing Worlds Through Science Education: The Selected Works of John K. Gilbert

Supporting Self-Directed Learning in Science and Technology Beyond the School Years (Teaching and Learning in Science Series)

Supporting Self-Directed Learning in Science and Technology Beyond the School Years (Teaching and Learning in Science Series)

Modelling-based Teaching in Science Education (Models and Modeling in Science Education, 9)

Modelling-based Teaching in Science Education (Models and Modeling in Science Education, 9)