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"Science Education for Everyday Life: Evidence-based Practice" by Glen S. Aikenhead

Ways of Knowing in Science and Mathematics Series

This book provides a comprehensive overview of humanistic approaches to science—approaches that connect students to broader human concerns in their everyday life and culture. Author summarizes major worldwide historical findings, focuses on present thinking, and offers evidence in support of classroom practice.

This highly accessible text covers curriculum policy, teaching materials, teacher orientations and teacher education, student learning, culture studies, and future research.

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Featuring important alternative views on the teaching of science, this text:

* Describes an approach to teaching science (grades 6-12) that animates students’ self-identities, encouraging their future contributions to society as savvy citizens and productive workers.

* Addresses the tension between educationally sound ideas and the political realities of schools.

* Presents evidence-based challenges to traditional thinking about school science, illuminating many productive directions for future research.

Contents

1. Introduction

2. A Short History of Humanistic Perspectives in School Science

The Development of the Sciences

The Science Curriculum

Recent Humanistic Science Curriculum Movements

Features of the Humanistic Science Movement

Conclusion

3. Curriculum Policy

Major Failures of the Traditional Science Curriculum

Learning and Using Science in Nonschool Contexts

Research on Relevance

Cultural Relevance

Processes for Formulating Curriculum Policy

Conclusion 52

4. Classroom Materials

Research Analyzing Classroom Materials

Research Into the Development of Classroom Materials

Conclusion

5. Teacher Orientation

Challenges to Teachers’ Acceptance

Decisions Not to Implement

Success at Implementation

Components to a Teacher’s Orientation

Preservice Experiences

School Culture

Conclusion

6. Student Learning

Canonical Science Content

Evidence-gathering Techniques for Humanistic Content

Summative Assessment in Quasi-Experimental Studies

Other Investigations in Humanistic School Science

Student Decision Making

Conclusion

7. Culture Studies: School Science as Culture Transmission

Cross-Cultural Science Education

Guidelines for Respect

Indigenous Sciences

Student Heterogeneity

Cross-cultural Teaching and Learning

Conclusion

8. Moving Forward

Credibility

Future Research Studies

Research Paradigms and Methodologies

Conclusion

References

Index

About the Author

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