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Direct linkMelville, Wayne; Campbell, Todd; Jones, Doug – Research in Science Education, 2019
This article addresses two gaps in the literature related to science department chairs: the axiological relationship between the chair and science, the subject, and the perceptions of the chair with respect to teaching and learning within their departments. In this work, axiology is used to understand how the chair's values toward the subject…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Department Heads, Values, Science Departments
Melville, Wayne; Campbell, Todd; Jones, Doug – School Science and Mathematics, 2016
In this article, we have considered the role of the chair in leading the learning necessary for a department to become effective in the teaching and learning of science from a reformed perspective. We conceptualize the phrase "leading learning" to mean the chair's constitution of influence, power, and authority to intentionally impact…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Departments, Department Heads, Administrator Role
The Departmental Script as an Ongoing Conversation into the Phronesis of Teaching Science as Inquiry
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
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
Melville, Wayne; Wallace, John – Research in Science Education, 2007
This article employs the concept of community to interpret teacher professional learning in the context of the school science department. Using the transcripts of staff meetings, lesson observations and the conversations of school administrators, the departmental community is examined in terms of three metaphors: subject, relationships and…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Science Teachers, Science Departments, Science Education
