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Space, Relations, and the Learning of Science
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Roth, Wolff-Michael; Hsu, Pei-Ling – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2014
In the literature on the situated and distributed nature of cognition, the coordination of spatial organization and the structure of human practices and relations is accepted as a fact. To date, science educators have yet to build on such research. Drawing on an ethnographic study of high school students during an internship in a scientific…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Ethnography, High School Students, Secondary School Science
Students' Representations of Scientific Practice during a Science Internship: Reflections from an Activity-Theoretic Perspective
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Hsu, Pei-Ling; van Eijck, Michiel; Roth, Wolff-Michael – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
Working at scientists' elbows is one suggestion that educators make to improve science education, because such "authentic experiences" provide students with various types of science knowledge. However, there is an ongoing debate in the literature about the assumption that authentic science activities can enhance students' understandings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Job Shadowing, Informal Education
Natural Pedagogical Conversations in High School Students' Internship
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Hsu, Pei-Ling; Roth, Wolff-Michael; Mazumder, Asit – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2009
Many science educators encourage student experiences of "authentic" science by means of student participation in science-related workplaces. Little research has been done, however, to investigate how "teaching" naturally occurs in such settings, where scientists or technicians normally do not have pedagogical training and generally do not have…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Student Participation, Science Laboratories, High School Students
From a Sense of Stereotypically Foreign to Belonging in a Science Community: Ways of Experiential Descriptions about High School Students' Science Internship
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Hsu, Pei-Ling; Roth, Wolff-Michael – Research in Science Education, 2010
Science educators often suggest that students should learn science in ways and settings that bear family resemblance with "the real thing." Internship in science laboratories constitutes one such way in which students may learn science and learn about science. However, very little is known about "how" participants experience a…
Descriptors: High Schools, Science Laboratories, Scientists, High School Students
What High School Students Learn during Internships in Biology Laboratories
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Roth, Wolff-Michael; van Eijck, Michiel; Hsu, Pei-Ling; Marshall, Anne; Mazumder, Asit – American Biology Teacher, 2009
This article reports on the results of the authors' research and development work that was designed to study the impact of internships in scientific laboratories on high school students. The authors sketch how the internships affected cognitive outcomes, experiences and attitudes, and the career aspirations of the high school students. The…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Science Laboratories, Biology, High School Students
Authentic Science Experiences as a Vehicle to Change Students' Orientations toward Science and Scientific Career Choices: Learning from the Path Followed by Brad
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van Eijck, Michiel; Roth, Wolff-Michael – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2009
Bringing a greater number of students into science is one of, if not the most fundamental goals of science education for "all", especially for heretofore-neglected groups of society such as women and Aboriginal students. Providing students with opportunities to experience how science really is enacted--i.e., "authentic science"--has been advocated…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Ethnography, Internship Programs, Recruitment
Lab Technicians and High School Student Interns--Who Is Scaffolding Whom?: On Forms of Emergent Expertise
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Hsu, Pei-Ling; Roth, Wolff-Michael – Science Education, 2009
Apprenticeship and the associated support mechanism of scaffolding have received considerable interest by educational researchers as ways of inducting students into science. Most studies treat scaffolding as a one-way process, where the expert supports the development of the novice. However, if social processes generally and conversations…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Internship Programs