Leadership and Professional Development in Science Education: New Possibilities for Enhancing Teacher Learning

by Wallace,John; Wallace,John

• ISBN13: 9780415306775
• ISBN10: 0415306779
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-09
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

This book brings together international teams of eminent science educators to describe and explain some of the many and complex ways that science teacher leadership is connected to teacher learning. Research-based practical and theoretical exemplars will reflect the state of the art of science teacher leadership through a range of international contexts in the UK, USA, Australia, South Africa, the Netherlands and Belgium. The book is organised around three major initiation points for leadership: personal initiatives for teacher learning, collegial initiatives for teacher learning, and systematic initiatives for teacher learning.

Table of Contents

Introduction: learning about teacher learning: reflections of a science educator	1	(16)
JOHN WALLACE
PART I Personal initiatives in teacher learning	17	(62)
1 Changing the balance of a science teacher's belief system	19	(15)
GABBY F. HOBAN
2 The challenges of attaining a transformative science education in urban high schools	34	(14)
KENNETH TOBIN
3 Leading by example within a collaborative staff	48	(15)
STEPHEN M. RITCHIE AND DONNA L. RIGANO
4 Challenges to practice, constraints on change: managing innovation in a South African township science classroom	63	(16)
JONATHAN CLARK
PART II Collegial initiatives in teacher learning	79	(74)
5 The experience and challenges of teacher leadership in learning technology reform for science education: a tale of TESSI	81	(18)
JOLIE MAYER-SMITH
6 Enhancing science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge through collegial interaction	99	(17)
JAN VAN DRIEL AND DOUWE BEIJAARD
7 Building a community of science learners through legitimate collegial participation	116	(18)
MARILYN FLEER AND TIM GRACE
8 Community-based science education leadership enacted in a Filipino barangay	134	(19)
SHARON E. NICHOLS AND DEBORAH J. TIPPINS
PART III Systemic initiatives for teacher learning	153	(94)
9 Professional development and science curriculum implementation: a perspective for leadership	155	(22)
RODGER W. BYBEE, JAMES B. SHORT, NANCY M. LANDES AND JANET C. POWELL
10 Developing leadership in science teacher trainees for upper secondary schools: orientations and examples	177	(21)
CÉCILE VANDER BORGHT
11 Systemic teacher development to enhance the use of argumentation in school science activities	198	(20)
SHIRLEY SIMON, JONATHAN OSBORNE AND SIB EL ERD URAN
12 Building and sustaining communities of practice beyond the fold: nurturing agency and action	218	(19)
ERMINIA PEDRETTI, LARRY BENCZE, DEREK HOD SON, ISHA DECOITO AND MAURICE DI GIUSEPPE
13 Conclusion: leading with a focus on science teaching and learning	237	(10)
J. JOHN LOUGHRAN
Notes on contributors	247	(8)
Index	255