NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hume, Anne Christine – Research in Science Education, 2012
The challenge of preparing novice primary teachers for teaching in an educational environment, where science education has low status and many teachers have limited science content knowledge and lack the confidence to teach science, is great. This paper reports on an innovation involving a sustained simulation in an undergraduate science education…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Education Courses
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Walker, Mark; Groger, Martin; Schutler, Kirsten; Mosler, Bernd – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
As well as being a founding father of modern chemistry and physics Michael Faraday was also a skilled lecturer, able to explain scientific principles and ideas simply and concisely to nonscientific audiences. However science didactics today emphasizes the use of open and student-centered methods of teaching in which students find and develop…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Audiences, Chemistry, Science Instruction