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Framing of Transitional Pedagogic Practices in the Sciences: Enabling Access
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Ellery, Karen – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
Educational literature shows that students from working-class backgrounds are significantly less likely to persist to completion in higher education than middle-class students. This paper draws theoretically and analytically on Bernstein's ([1990. "Class, Codes and Control, Volume IV: The Structuring of Pedagogic Discourse." London:…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Education, Social Class, Higher Education
Integrating Sustainable Development Concept into Science Education Program Is Not Enough; We Need Competent Science Teachers for Education for Sustainable Development--Turkish Experience
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Karaarslan, Güliz; Teksöz, Gaye – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
In order to educate science teachers for a sustainable future, recent discussions are going on related to collaboration between science education and education for sustainable development (ESD). Still, ESD has been in a development stage and needs to be improved in terms of developing teacher competencies. Therefore, in this study we focused on…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Science Teachers, Sustainable Development, Sustainability
A Longitudinal Study of Environmental and Outdoor Education: A Cultural Change
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Tal, Tali; Morag, Orly – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
In this case-study, we present a longitudinal study of one elementary (grades 1-6) school's environmental education (EE) in order to understand the ways in which the school culture supports outdoor EE as a critical component of their science education program. The school, which was known for its school-based EE curriculum that encompasses an…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Longitudinal Studies, Elementary Schools, Environmental Education
A Best-Practice Model for Academic Advising of University Biology Majors
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Heekin, Jonathan Ralph Calvin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Biology faculty at an East Coast university believed their undergraduate students were not being well served by the existing academic advising program. The purpose of this mixed methods project study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the academic advising model in a biology department. Guided by system-based organizational theory, a learning…
Descriptors: Biology, Academic Advising, Undergraduate Students, Holistic Approach
Consistent Differences in Cognitive Styles Shown for Qualitative Biological Problem-Solving.
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Brumby, Margarget N. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1982
Three qualitative problems designed to explore differences in cognitive style were given to 48 undergraduate biology students in England. Two components of cognitive style were identified: problem perception (analytic, holistic, versatile) and ability to integrate the problem with their existing knowledge (high, low). Student problem-solving…
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
"Policy Making": A Study of Curriculum Development in Contemporary Teacher Education. Report 1990:02.
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Beach, Dennis – 1990
This report is one of a group of papers examining curriculum issues related to science education courses at a Swedish university. Symbolic interactionism and symbolic interactionist ethnography have informed the research strategies in these investigations. The paper focuses on curriculum development from the actor's perspective. To evaluate a…
Descriptors: College Students, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation