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Maria Inês Petrucci-Rosa; Paola Fernanda Guidi Oliveira – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
The present study investigates the devaluation of specialised teaching knowledge and the prioritisation of general education based on competencies and skills at the secondary level in Brazil. The dissolution of the curricular disciplinary organisation poses a risk to teaching identities, and understanding how teachers constitute epistemic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Science, Science Teachers
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Veal, William R.; Morrell, Patricia D.; Rogers, Meredith Park; Roehrig, Gillian H.; Pyle, Eric J. – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2022
The aim of this study is to examine the professional identities of the academic staff of the faculties of education in Turkey. The study employed the Q methodology, in which both quantitative and qualitative data can be used. The qualitative data were collected and analysed by interviewing seven academics working in the faculty of education in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, Science Teachers, College Faculty
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Zowada, Christian; Frerichs, Nadja; Zuin, Vania Gomes; Eilks, Ingo – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
The debate on the use of pesticides is very current in the public media when it comes to topics such as organic farming, bee mortality, and the use of glyphosate. The broad range of pesticide applications and their potential environmental impact makes pesticides an interesting topic for science education in general and for chemistry teaching in…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Sustainability
Mostafa, Tarek; Pál, Judit – OECD Publishing, 2018
In 2015, for the first time in its history, PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) asked teachers to describe the various aspects of their working environment and teaching practices. This paper examines how teacher, student, and school characteristics are related to science teachers' satisfaction in 19 PISA-participating…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Job Satisfaction, Evidence, Teacher Surveys
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Marcelos, Maria Fatima; Nagem, Ronaldo Luiz – Science & Education, 2012
This work discusses the use of Darwin's "Tree of Life" as a didactic analogy and metaphor in teaching evolution. It investigates whether biology teachers of pupils from 17 to 18 years old know Darwin's text "Tree of Life". In addition, it examines whether those teachers systematically employ either the analogies present in that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evolution, Biology, Science Instruction
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Maria, Flavia; dos Santos, Teixeira; Mortimer, Eduardo Fleury – International Journal of Science Education, 2003
In this article we analyse the interaction between a high school chemistry teacher and her students from two different classes, emphasizing how emotions, affects and feelings contributed to, or obstructed, the dynamic of interactions. The data come from an ethnographic research approach and include videotapes of the lessons, interviews and field…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Chemistry, Teacher Student Relationship, Secondary School Teachers