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Melville, Wayne; Campbell, Todd; Fazio, Xavier; Bartley, Anthony – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2012
This article investigates the extent to which a science department script supports the teaching and learning of science as inquiry and how this script is translated into individual teachers' classrooms. This study was completed at one school in Canada which, since 2000, has developed a departmental script supportive of teaching and learning of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Inquiry, Science Departments
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Melville, Wayne; Hardy, Ian; Bartley, Anthony – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
Using the insights of the French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, this article considers the role of the science department chair in the reform of school science education. Using Bourdieu's "thinking tools" of "field", "habitus" and "capital", we case study the work of two teachers who both actively pursue the teaching and learning of science as…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Departments, Science Education, Department Heads