Models of Understanding Science Teachers' Beliefs and Practices: Challenges and Potentials for Science Education - Couverture souple

Mansour, Nasser

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3639094778 ISBN 13 : 9783639094770

Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2008

Synopsis

Many topics included in Science, Technology and Society Education (STSE) are acknowledged as controversial issues, e.g. evolution and cloning. These pose problems for science teachers, especially in a religiously-based culture. Other issues may not formally conflict with religion, but teachers' interpretations of the religious views of these issues can create a false contradiction. The book discusses five themes: the mixed beliefs of science teachers; the degree of consistency or inconsistency between their beliefs and practices; how personal religious beliefs were highly influential in shaping and reshaping teacher beliefs and practices; teachers' social-cultural contexts; and mediating factors acting as a gap between their beliefs and practices. From these themes, three models emerge, the PRB model; social-cultural contexts model; and constraints model. The book identified a variety of significant implications for parties interested in science education including science teachers, researchers, educators, science curriculum developers, and decision makers.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nasser Mansour is a research Fellow at School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of Exeter, UK. Also, he is a Lecturer in Science Education at the Faculty of Education, Tanta University, Egypt. His PhD in Science Education is from the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of Exeter, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: VDM Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3639094778
• ISBN 13: 9783639094770
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible