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Becoming Critical about Practical Work: Changing Views and Changing Practice through Action Research.
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Hodson, Derek; Bencze, Larry – International Journal of Science Education, 1998
Describes how a group of teachers sought to overcome the difficulties of major innovation by working with a change agent to critique their current practice, devise a more authentic science for school science, and implement their ideas. Contains 36 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Action Research, Change Agents, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries
Changing Practice by Changing Practice: Toward More Authentic Science and Science Curriculum Development.
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Bencze, Larry; Hodson, Derek – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1999
Describes how two teachers collaborated with a university-based researcher/teacher educator to design and implement more authentic science in a grade 7 classroom. Discusses the ways in which the teachers changed their views about science and science teaching, the anxieties they experienced, and the institutional constraints that impacted their…
Descriptors: Action Research, College School Cooperation, Educational Change, Foreign Countries