This study explores how K-8 critically conscious dual-language science teachers (CCDLSTs) working with bilingual learners (BLs) practice their critical consciousness via the four tenets of dual-language education: ideological clarity, pedagogical perspective and clarity, access for all, and equitable spaces (IPAE). This study is informed by the…

Teaching, the core technology of schooling, is an essential consideration in investigations of education systems and school organizations. Taking teaching seriously as an explanatory variable in research on education systems and organizations necessitates moving beyond treating it as a unitary practice, so as to take account of the school subjects…

Concerned by the need to decolonize education for Aboriginal students, the authors explore philosophies of Indigenous ways of knowing and those of the 21st century learning movement. In their efforts to propose a way forward with Aboriginal education, the authors inquire into harmonies between Aboriginal knowledges and tenets of 21st century…

A teacher professional development program for in-service elementary school science teachers, the Rice Elementary Model Science Lab (REMSL), was developed for urban school districts serving predominately high-poverty, high-minority students. Teachers with diverse skills and science capacities came together in Professional Learning Communities, one…

Reports study of ability of 300 first grade Honolulu, Hawaii students to describe properties of a physical object. Children were divided into experimentals who received instruction in the Material Objects Unit of the Science Curriculum Improvement Project (SCIS) and controls who received usual program. Experimentals were significantly higher in…

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between textbook authors', teachers', and safety specialists' danger potential rankings of selected elementary school science activities. A questionnaire was constructed using twenty-two activities selected from elementary science textbooks which involved potentially dangerous materials…

Describes perceptual activities which involve children in questioning perceptions of size and distance that typically appear obvious but that are not accurate. Activities are designed to help the child consider variables that do not always stand out visually but which are important. (BR)

The subjects used in this study were 202 second grade pupils, representing the entire population from nine classrooms in four school buildings all located in a middle-class town. Treatment conditions were used which modeled reward conditions: (1) a neutral, no-overt-reward condition in which the tester quietly observed the subject working at the…

Investigated was the relationship between verbal interaction of elementary science teachers with their students and students' creativity. Two populations were sampled from the elementary schools in Bangkok, Thailand. Eight teachers and 64 second grade students comprised the sample. Interaction was analyzed by the Flanders System. Creativity was…