Curriculum philosophy & implications for science teaching & learning

Dewey, John (1951). Experience and Education. New York: The Macmillian Co. Chapters 1-4, 7-8.

Curriculum philosophy & implications for science teaching & learning

Bruner, Jerome (1960). The Process of Education. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Continue discussing last week's Dewey.

What is scientific inquiry…

Schwab, J.J. What Do Scientists Do? In Schwab, J.J. (1978). Science, curriculum & liberal

education. Selected Essays.

NRC (2007). Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8.

National Academies Press: Washington, DC.

Hammer, D. Russ, R., Mikeska, J. Scherr, R. (2008). Identifying inquiry and conceptualizing

students’ abilities. In R. Duschl & R. Grandy (Eds). Establishing a Consensus Agenda

for K-12 Science Inquiry. Rotterdam, NL: Sense Publishers.

…and how is this often articulated in the classroom?

Dewey. J. (1910). How we think. Chapters 1-2.

Rudolph, J. (2005). Epistemology for the Masses: The origins of the “scientific method” in

American Schools. History of Education Quarterly, 45(3), 341-376.

Windschitl, M. (2004). Caught in the cycle of reproducing folk theories of “Inquiry”: How preservice

teachers continue the discourse and practices of an atheoretical scientific

method. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 41(5), 481-512.

Supporting inquiry…teaching, assessing…

Hammer, D. Discovery Teaching, Discovery Learning (1997). Cognition and Instruction 15(4),

485-529.

Ball, D. (1993). With an eye on the Mathematical Horizon: Dilemmas of Teaching Elementary

School Mathematics. The Elementary School Journal, 93(4), 373-397.

Wiggins, G. (1989). The Futility of Trying to Teach Everything of Importance. Educational

Leadership, 47(3), 47-59.

…curriculum….

Sandoval, W. & Reiser, B.J. (2004). Explanation-Driven Inquiry: Integrating Conceptual and

Epistemic Scaffolds for Scientific Inquiry. Science Education. 88:345 – 372.

Barab, S, Zuiker, S., Warren, S., Hickey, D, Ingram-Goble, A, Kwon, E.J., Kouper, I., Herring,

S.C. (2007). Situationally Embodied Curriculum: Relating Formalism and Context.

Science Education 91:750 – 782.

Inquiry and student epistemology

Smith, C.L., Maclin, D., Houghton, C., Hennessey, M.G. (2008). Sixth-Grade Students'

Epistemologies of Science: the Impact of School Science Experiences on Epistemological

Development. Cognition and Instruction, 18(3) 349-422.

Bell, P, Linn, M. (2002). Beliefs about science: How does instruction contribute? In Hofer, B. and

Pintrich, P.R. Personal Epistemology: The Psychology

Discourse in the Science Classroom

Lemke, J. (1991). Talking Science: Language, Learning and Values. NJ: Ablex. Chapter 2: A

Lot of Heat and Not Much Light (pp.28-43).

Kelly, GJ, Chen, C. (2007). The Sound of Music: Constructing Science As Sociocultural

Practices through Oral and Written Discourse. Science Education, 91:750 – 782.

Rosebery, A.S., Warren, B., & Conant, F. R. (1992). Appropriating Scientific Discourse:

Findings from Language Minority Classrooms. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2(1),

61-94.

Diversity in the science classroom

Seiler, G. (2001). Reversing the "standard" direction: Science emerging from the lives of

African American students. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 38(9), 1000-

1014.

Warren, B., Ballenger, C., Ogonowski, M., Rosebery, A.S., Hudicourt-Barnes, J. (2001).

Rethinking diversity in learning science: The logic of everyday sense-making, The

Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 38 (5): 529-552.

Lee C.D. (1995). A Culturally Based Cognitive Apprenticeship: Teaching African American

High School Students Skills in Literary Interpretation. Reading Research Quarterly,

30(4), 608-631...

Roth, WM, Barton, A.C. (2004). Rethinking Scientific Literacy. London: Routledge.

Assessment of and for learning

Black, P. J. & Wiliam, B. (1998) Inside the Black Box, Phi Delta Kappan.

Duschl, R.D. & Gitomer, D.H. (1997) Strategies and Challenges to Changing the Focus of

Assessment and Instruction in Science Classrooms, Educational Assessment, 4 (1),

37-73.

Learning in out of school settings

Nasir, N. (2005). Individual Cognitive Structuring and the Sociocultural Context: Strategy

Shifts in the Game of Dominos. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 14(1), 5 – 34.

Kaptelinin, V., Cole, M. (2002) Individual and Collective Activities in Educational Computer

Game Playing.

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Teacher Education

Windschitl, M. (2005). The future of science teacher preparation in America : Where is the

evidence to inform program design and guide responsible policy decisions? Science

Education, 89 (4), 525-534.

Kagan, D. M. (1992). Professional growth among preservice and beginning teachers. Review

of Educational Research, 62(2), 129-169.

Levin, D. M., Hammer, D., & Coffey, J. E. (2009). Novice teachers attention to student

thinking: Confronting stage-based models of teacher development. Journal of Teacher

Education.

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