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Khanh Q. Tran; S. Selcen Guzey – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Science teachers and educators seek to promote equity and inclusion within their classrooms. Yet, many do not examine how their roles could reproduce oppression that continues to exclude certain groups of students. Centering on how oppression interacts with science teaching and learning, this naturalistic study observed Ms. William and her…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, STEM Education, Culturally Relevant Education
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Jessica L. Alzen; Jason Y. Buell; Kelsey Edwards; Brian J. Reiser; Cynthia Passmore; William R. Penuel; Chris D. Griesemer; Yang Zhang – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
This article explores the challenges of enacting reform-oriented curriculum in science classrooms. We use the concept of figured worlds to analyze a case study of an eighth-grade science class where the teacher reported that the students were resistant to changes she was trying to make. By examining stimulated recall interviews with the teacher…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Sage Andersen; María González-Howard; Karina Méndez Pérez – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
This study explored a middle school science teacher's curricular sensemaking in interaction with their use of an educative storyline curriculum, aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards, that was intentionally designed for more opportunities for students' scientific sensemaking. Using a phenomenological case study methodology, we examined…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Curriculum Implementation, Science Curriculum
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Gunckel, Kristin L.; Covitt, Beth A.; Berkowitz, Alan R.; Caplan, Bess; Moore, John C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
Nearly a decade ago, the "Framework for K-12 Science Education" argued for the need to intertwine science and engineering practices, disciplinary core ideas, and crosscutting concepts in performance expectations. However, there are few empirical examples for how intertwining three dimensions facilitates learning. In this study, we used a…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Science Instruction, Engineering Education, Learning Processes
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Anwar, Saira; Menekse, Muhsin; Guzey, Selcen; Bryan, Lynn A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
Recent calls for reform in K-12 science education and the National Academy of Engineering's Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century emphasize improving science teaching, students' engagement, and learning. In this study, we designed and implemented a curriculum unit for sixth-grade students (i = 1305). The curriculum unit integrated…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Grade 6, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Education
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Akuma, Fru Vitalis; Callaghan, Ronel – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Around the world, there have been curricula reforms involving the incorporation of the inquiry-based teaching and learning strategy in secondary school science education in general and in practical work in particular. Research in inquiry-based practical work (IBPW) has focused, for example, on aspects of the strategy itself, on teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development
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Fu, Guopeng; Clarke, Anthony – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
This study explores how physics teachers in a high school negotiate the relationships between individual and collective agencies in the context of the on-going curriculum reform in China. Drawing on Bandura's social cognitive theory, the study employs ethnographical methods including observation, interviewing, and the researcher's and teachers'…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Social Cognition, Ethnography
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Wallace, Carolyn S.; Priestley, Mark R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Scotland is one of several countries to have recently implemented a new national curriculum to highlight 21st century educational priorities. Teachers have been mandated to follow the new curriculum guidelines, known as Curriculum for Excellence (CfE), since the fall of 2010. The purpose of this study was to use a phenomenological lens to…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Secondary School Science, Foreign Countries, National Curriculum
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Marco-Bujosa, Lisa M.; McNeill, Katherine L.; González-Howard, María; Loper, Suzanna – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Educative curriculum materials provide teachers with authentic opportunities to learn new skills and practices. Yet, research shows teachers use curriculum in different ways for different reasons, and these modifications could undermine the learning goals of the curriculum. Little research, however, has examined the variation in teacher use of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Curriculum, Case Studies, Instructional Materials
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Zangori, Laura; Peel, Amanda; Kinslow, Andrew; Friedrichsen, Patricia; Sadler, Troy D. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Carbon cycling is a key natural system that requires robust science literacy to understand how and why climate change is occurring. Studies show that students tend to compartmentalize carbon movement within plants and animals and are challenged to make sense of how carbon cycles on a global scale. Studies also show that students hold faulty models…
Descriptors: Climate, Change, Scientific Literacy, Environmental Influences
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Hagay, Galit; Baram-Tsabari, Ayelet – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2015
Many students feel the curriculum is detached from their lives and interests. Indeed, about half the questions asked by high school biology students are not addressed by the curriculum. This study presents a strategy to incorporate students' curiosity questions into the curriculum as a way to reduce the disparity between students' interests and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, High School Students, Science Interests, Science Curriculum
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Suriel, Regina L.; Atwater, Mary M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2012
In this exploratory case study, we sought to understand teacher's integration of multicultural curricula in science curriculum units, and how personal experiences influenced the level of integration in light of Bank's typology of ethnic content integration into school curricula. Five research participants volunteered and were selected so as to be…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Curriculum, Integrated Curriculum, Cultural Pluralism
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Price, Jeremy F.; McNeill, Katherine L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
As knowledge of and familiarity with science becomes an increasingly important aspect of contemporary life and citizenship, efforts have been made to make the science curriculum a “lived” curriculum (Hurd, 2000), one that reaches out to the lives, communities, and experiences of students. In this research around a high school urban ecology…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Theories, Science Curriculum, Secondary School Curriculum
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Nargund-Joshi, Vanashri; Park Rogers, Meredith A.; Akerson, Valarie L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
In 2005 India introduced a new National Curriculum Framework aimed at providing a more constructivist approach to learning for all subjects. Previous research on the impact of curriculum reform in other countries (e.g., United States) concluded that for reform to be successful teachers' orientations toward teaching and learning must be considered…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Interviews
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Larkin, Douglas B.; Seyforth, Scott C.; Lasky, Holly J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2009
This study presents a description and analysis of a ninth-grade integrated science curriculum developed and implemented by teachers within a high school science department and subsequently sustained for over 25 years. The Integrated Science Program (ISP) at Lakeside Southwest High School depicted here offers a unique example of longitudinal…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Science Programs, Teacher Leadership, Instructional Leadership
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