Metaphor And Analogy in Science Education

by Aubusson, Peter J.; Harrison, Allan G.; Ritchie, Stephen M.

• ISBN13: 9781402038297
• ISBN10: 1402038291
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-16
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This book brings together powerful ideas and new developments from internationally recognised scholars and classroom practitioners to provide theoretical and practical knowledge to inform progress in science education. This is achieved through a series of related chapters reporting research on analogy and metaphor in science education. Throughout the book, contributors not only highlight successful applications of analogies and metaphors, but also foreshadow exciting developments for research and practice. Themes include metaphor and analogy: best practice, as reasoning; for learning; applications in teacher development; in science education research; philosophical and theoretical foundations. Accordingly, the book is likely to appeal to a wide audience of science educators ' classroom practitioners, student teachers, teacher educators and researchers.

Table of Contents

Metaphor and Analogy: Serious thought in science education	1	(10)
Peter J. Aubusson
Allan G. Harrison
Stephen M. Ritchie
Teaching and Learning with Analogies: Friend or foe?	11	(14)
Allan G. Harrison
David F. Treagust
Complementary Epistemologies of Science Teaching: Towards an integral perspective	25	(12)
John William Willison
Peter Charles Taylor
Post-Festum and Heuristic Analogies	37	(14)
Jens Wilbers
Reinders Duit
The Affective Dimension of Analogy	51	(14)
Allan G. Harrison
The Role of Models, Mental Models and Analogies in Chemistry Teaching	65	(14)
Richard K. Coll
Metaphors for Genes	79	(14)
Grady J. Venville
Susan J. Gribble
Jennifer Donovan
Role Play as Analogical Modelling in Science	93	(12)
Peter J. Aubusson
Stephen Fogwill
Metaphor, Students' Conceptions of Learning and Teaching, and Metacogniton	105	(14)
Gregory P. Thomas
The Role of Analog Models in the Understanding of the Nature of Models in Chemistry	119	(12)
Rosaria Justi
John Gilbert
The Role of Metaphor in a New Science Teachers' Learning from Experience	131	(12)
Tom Russell
Michael Hrycenko
Metaphors and Analogies in Transition: Beginning teachers' lived experience	143	(12)
Stephen M. Ritchie
Alberto Bellocchi
Heidi Poltl
Marianne Wearmouth
Why do Science Teachers Teach the Way They Do and How Can They Improve Practice?	155	(10)
Kenneth Tobin
Can Analogy Help in Science Education Research?	165	(12)
Peter Aubusson
Metaphors We Write By	177	(12)
Stephen M. Ritchie
Metaphorically Thinking	189	(8)
Stephen M. Ritchie
Peter J. Aubusson
Allan G. Harrison
Contributors	197	(6)
Index	203