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A Multi-Year Study of the Impact of the Rice Model Teacher Professional Development on Elementary Science Teachers
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Diaconu, Dana Viorica; Radigan, Judy; Suskavcevic, Milijana; Nichol, Carolyn – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
A teacher professional development program for in-service elementary school science teachers, the Rice Elementary Model Science Lab (REMSL), was developed for urban school districts serving predominately high-poverty, high-minority students. Teachers with diverse skills and science capacities came together in Professional Learning Communities, one…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Minority Groups, Leadership, Minority Group Students
Turning Vygotsky on His Head: Vygotsky's "Scientifically Based Method" and the Socioculturalist's "Social Other."
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Rowlands, Stuart – Science and Education, 2000
Attempts to understand Vygotsky's perspective in relation to Marxist epistemology and critically examines the sociocultural interpretation of Vygotsky. Shows that the relativism of the sociocultural school not only takes Vygotsky's zone of proximal development out of its social and historical context, but downplays the zone of proximal development…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Epistemology, Higher Education, Instruction
Primary Teachers' Views about Integrating Science and Literacy.
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Waldrip, Bruce; Oakes, Sally – Investigating, 2001
Reports on elementary school teachers' ideas on the integration of science and literacy and its effects on teachers' instructional practices. (YDS)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Elementary School Teachers, Instruction, Integrated Curriculum
Recognizing Women in Environmental Education Pedagogy and Research: Toward an Ecofeminist Postcontructuralist Perspective.
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Gough, Annette – Environmental Education Research, 1999
Reports on research into the gaps and silences present in policies, pedagogy, and research in environmental education from a feminist perspective. (Author/CCM)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Philosophy, Environmental Education, Feminism
Beginning Primary Science Teaching: Entryways to Different Worlds.
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Mulholland, Judith; Wallace, John – Research in Science Education, 2000
Reports on a case study of the transition from preservice to inservice science teaching. Describes four sets of overlapping areas that provide vantage points for the study. Three sets describe participating teacher experiences, and the fourth set describes researchers' developments. Discusses the differences between a person who is good at science…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning, Educational Environment