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Huang, Ying-Syuan; Asghar, Anila – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2018
This empirical study investigates secondary science teachers' perspectives on science education reform in Taiwan and reflects how these teachers have been negotiating constructivist and learner-centered pedagogical approaches in contemporary science education. It also explores the challenges that teachers encounter while shifting their pedagogical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Educational Change, Teacher Attitudes
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Zeidler, Dana L.; Herman, Benjamin C.; Ruzek, Mitch; Linder, Anne; Lin, Shu-Sheng – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
The purpose of this investigation was to examine, from a cross-cultural perspective, students' epistemological patterns of reasoning about socioscientific issues (SSI), and to identify potential interactions of cultural and scientific identity. Mediating factors associated with students' argumentation and discourse about SSI, as well as the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Self Concept, Cross Cultural Studies, Thinking Skills