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9780415288712

A Vision for Science Education: Responding to Peter Fensham's Work

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415288712

  • ISBN10:

    0415288711

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-11-27
  • Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

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Summary

One of the most important voices in eliciting reform in science education has been Peter Fensham. In this unique volume, the world's foremost science educators extend and modify Fensham's ideas, providing a vision of the future of science education.

Table of Contents

List of tables
x
Notes on contributors xi
Acknowledgements xv
Preface xvii
PART I Peter James Fensham (1927-) 1(14)
Living the dream: Peter James Fensham, social justice, and science education
3(12)
Roger Cross
PART II Science for all 15(42)
Science for all: learner-centred science
17(20)
Cliff Malcolm
Making science matter
37(14)
Jonathan Osborne
`Science for All': reflections from Indonesia
51(6)
Tarsisius Sarkim
PART III Science, technology, and society: learning for the modern world 57(34)
STS education: a rose by any other name
59(17)
Glen Aikenhead
The UK and the movement for science, technology, and society (STS) education
76(15)
Joan Solomon
PART IV Gender in science teaching 91(24)
Science for all? Science for girls? Which girls?
93(9)
Nancy Brickhouse
Understanding gender difference in science education: Peter Fensham's contribution
102(13)
Leonie Rennie
PART V The theory and practice of science teaching 115(14)
Fensham's lodestar criterion
117(12)
James Wandersee
PART VI Politics of the science curriculum 129(24)
Partners or opponents: the role of academic scientists in secondary science education
131(8)
Harrie Eijkelhof
Perspectives and possibilities in the politics of science curriculum
139(14)
Jim Gaskell
PART VII Peter Fensham's reform agenda: the `vision thing' 153(32)
Visions, research, and school practice
155(15)
Reinders Duit
Changing the script for science teaching
170(15)
Richard White
PART VIII Peter Fensham's impact on science education in Australia and science education research around the world 185(21)
Impact of science education now and in the future
187(8)
Cristina Padolina
The importance of being able to see `the big picture': a personal appraisal of Fensham's influence on science education research and development
195(11)
David Treagust
Afterword: a new centre for research on science curriculum 206(4)
Richard Gunstone
Appendix - Peter Fensham: selected publications 210(5)
Index 215

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