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H?ng, Ngô Vu Thu; Meijer, Marijn Roland; Bulte, Astrid M. W.; Pilot, Albert – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2017
The implementation of social constructivist approaches to learning science in primary education in Vietnamese culture as an example of Confucian heritage culture remains challenging and problematic. This theoretical paper focuses on the initial phase of a design-based research approach; that is, the description of the design of a formal, written…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Guidelines
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Dolfing, Ria; Bulte, Astrid M. W.; Pilot, Albert; Vermunt, Jan D. – Research in Science Education, 2012
This study aims to determine and describe the new domain-specific expertise of experienced chemistry teachers in teaching an innovative context-based unit about macro-micro thinking in structure-property relations. The construct of "teachers' domain-specific expertise" was used to analyse the new repertoire chemistry teachers need to acquire to…
Descriptors: Expertise, Innovation, Chemistry, Learning Processes
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Gilbert, John K.; Bulte, Astrid M. W.; Pilot, Albert – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
"Context-based courses" are increasingly used in an address to the major challenges that science education currently faces: lack of clear purpose, content overload, incoherent learning by students, lack of relevance to students, and lack of transfer of learning to new contexts. In this paper, four criteria for the design of context-based courses…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Concept Formation, Science Education, Instructional Design