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Direct linkTaylor, Roger S., Ed.; Ferrari, Michel, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
How is epistemology related to the issue of teaching science and evolution in the schools? Addressing a flashpoint issue in our schools today, this book explores core epistemological differences between proponents of intelligent design and evolutionary scientists, as well as the critical role of epistemological beliefs in learning science.…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Evolution, Creationism, Scientists
Wright, Handel Kashope, Ed.; Abdi, Ali A., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
"The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses" addresses how continental Africans who have worked or are currently working in the Canadian academy address their dual legacy of African and Euro-American knowledge paradigms. Reflecting a range of approaches to hegemonic Euro-American paradigms that can be summarized as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Studies, Education, Epistemology
Luehmann, April, Ed.; Borasi, Raffaella, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
New literacies have many functions in schools and learning, but science and mathematics education are among the contexts where their full potential has yet to be explored. This book both illustrates and critically analyzes the practice of blogging and its possibilities for fostering different ways of communicating, interacting, learning, and…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Mathematics Education, Electronic Publishing, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedAlexander, Patricia, Ed.; Levine, Felice J., Ed.; Tate, William, Ed. – American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2016
The centennial volume of "Review of Research in Education" ("RRE") takes a "retrospective, prospective" approach on a diverse range of education research topics spanning the last 100 years. While using historical trends as foundations for their chapters, the authors also look ahead to the most challenging issues and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational History, Educational Trends, Research Methodology
Carver, Sharon M., Ed.; Shrager, Jeff, Ed. – APA Books, 2012
The impulse to investigate the natural world is deeply rooted in our earliest childhood experiences. This notion has long guided researchers to uncover the cognitive mechanisms underlying the development of scientific reasoning in children. Until recently, however, research in cognitive development and education followed largely independent…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Science Education
Kawagley, A. Oscar – 1995
Written from a Yupiaq perspective, this book examines and compares Yupiaq and Western worldviews and their relationship to the learning and use of scientific knowledge. Chapter 1 discusses shared characteristics of the worldviews of Alaska Natives and then focuses specifically on the Yupiaq worldview, which is based on maintaining a balance among…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Cultural Context, Culturally Relevant Education
Kalman, Calvin S. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2006
This book offers broad, practical strategies for teaching science and engineering courses and describes how faculty can provide a learning environment that helps students comprehend the nature of science, understand science concepts, and solve problems in science courses. The student-centered approach focuses on two main themes: reflective writing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scientific Principles, Misconceptions, Science Laboratories
Deloria, Vine, Jr. – 1994
This book presents eight essays by Vine Deloria, Jr., a Standing Rock Sioux and professor of political science at the University of Colorado. Essays examine issues facing Native American students as they progress through the educational system, and aim to help Indian students place Western knowledge into the context of tribal and community…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Context Effect, Cultural Context
Barton, Angela Calabrese – 1998
This volume presents a case for science education from a feminist perspective. Feminist science teaching is concerned with questions that emerge from the intersections of the pedagogical, the disciplinary, and the personal with the political, social, and historical dimensions of each of these. It is also concerned with how knowledge of the ways in…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Educational Philosophy, Elitism, Epistemology
Deloria, Vine, Jr.; Wildcat, Daniel R. – 2001
The educational journey of modern Indian people spans two distinct value systems and worldviews, as the Native American sacred view inevitably encounters the material and pragmatic focus of the larger American society. In that meeting ground lies an opportunity for the two cultures to teach and learn from each other. The 15 essays in this book are…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Criticism, Cultural Interrelationships
Download full textFensham, Peter, Ed. – 1988
This book, written by science educators from nine countries, provides a summary of the strengths and weaknesses in practices of science education in schools, and of research in science education. It points out a number of directions that are likely to lead to improvements in the teaching and learning of science if applied in the future. Topics…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology
Hoffman, James V., Ed.; Schallert, Diane L., Ed.; Fairbanks, Colleen M., Ed.; Worthy, Jo, Ed.; Maloch, Beth, Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2006
Close to 1,100 people attended the 55th Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami, Florida from November 30-December 3, 2005. A record number of proposals were submitted this year (548), with 392 papers, symposia, and round tables accepted. This year's conference theme was inclusiveness and synthesis…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Reading Research, Synthesis
