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Direct linkRogan, John; Aldous, Colleen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2005
Planned educational change occurs regularly throughout the world. With the enormous political change the 1994 elections brought to South Africa, a complete change in education policies was called for. The new Curriculum 2005 (C2005; Department of Education, RSA, [1997]) embraced new teaching and learning approaches such as outcomes-based education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Politics of Education, Outcome Based Education
Case, Jennifer; Jawitz, Jeff – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
It has been proposed that situated cognition theory, in which learning is conceptualized as induction into a community of practice through the activity of legitimate peripheral participation, offers an appropriate theoretical perspective for examining issues of gender in science education. This study critically engages with this proposal by means…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Focus Groups, Chemical Engineering, Gender Issues
