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The Departmental Script as an Ongoing Conversation into the Phronesis of Teaching Science as Inquiry
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Direct linkMelville, 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
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
Melville, Wayne; Wallace, John; Bartley, Anthony – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2007
In this article, we consider the complex and dynamic inter-relationships between individual science teachers, the social space of their work and their dispositions towards teacher leadership. Research into the representation of school science departments through individual science teachers is scarce. We explore the representations of four…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Departments, Science Teachers, Teacher Leadership
