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Modeling as a Teaching Learning Process for Understanding Materials: A Case Study in Primary Education
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Acher, Andres; Arca, Maria; Sanmarti, Neus – Science Education, 2007
Modeling is being used in teaching learning science in a number of ways. It will be considered here as a process whereby children of primary school age exercise their capacity of organizing recognizable and manageable forms during their understanding of complex phenomenologies. The aim of this work is to characterize this process in relation to…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Case Studies, Learning Processes, Science Instruction
Facilitating Identity Formation, Group Membership, and Learning in Science Classrooms: What Can Be Learned from Out-of-Field Teaching in an Urban School?
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Olitsky, Stacy – Science Education, 2007
This paper explores both the obstacles and the possibilities for students developing identities associated with science by engaging in solidarity-building classroom interactions. Data come from ethnographic research conducted in a diverse eighth-grade urban magnet school classroom in which the teacher taught out of field for part of the year.…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Urban Schools
Play Orientation in Physics Education.
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Von Aufshnaiter, Stefan; Schwedes, Hannelore – Science Education, 1989
Described is a curriculum project developed in Germany. The importance of playing and gaming for the acquisition of cognitive and social capacities, the relationships among acting, reasoning, and learning in physics instruction, and the spheres of subjective experience are discussed. The framework and evaluation of the curriculum are outlined. (YP)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Physics
An Appropriate Conception of Teaching Science: A View from Studies of Science Learning.
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Hewson, Peter W.; Hewson, Mariana G. A'B. – Science Education, 1988
Analyzes the concept of teaching from various aspects. Reviews research on students' conceptions of natural phenomena, conceptual change, and teacher thinking. Suggests an appropriate conception of teaching science. (YP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Instruction