Inquiry-Based Science in the Primary Classroom

Herausgeber: Bansal, Garima; Ramnarain, Umesh

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Produktbeschreibung

The chapters in this book represent a cross-section of research conducted in inquiry-based science education at primary levels of schooling in international contexts that include school settings in Australia, India, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, Northern Ireland, and the United States. The book includes empirical studies on the role of inquiry-based learning in advancing students' conceptual understanding and modelling proficiency, students' understandings about the nature of scientific inquiry, classroom studies on teachers' enactment of inquiry-based learning, teachers' facilitation of classroom discourse for inquiry-based learning, and co-teaching in developing teachers in adopting an inquiry-based pedagogy. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Education 3-13.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781032461670
• ISBN-10: 1032461675
• Artikelnr.: 67679144

Autorenporträt

Garima Bansal is Research fellow at Australian Council for Educational Research. Her research interests include education assessment, science and mathematics education, and teacher education. She has received several international awards from renowned academic bodies such as the International Association of Education Assessment, American Evaluation Association, and British Educational Research Association. Umesh Ramnarain is Professor in Science Education, and Head of Department in Science and Technology Education at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His main research interest is on inquiry-based science education, with a particular focus on its uptake in South African classrooms, where the unequal funding policies of the previous Apartheid education system have resulted in learning contexts that are complex and diverse.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Inquiry-Based Science Education in Primary Schools 1. South
African primary school learners' understandings about the nature of
scientific inquiry 2. Indian pre-service teachers' conceptualisations and
enactment of inquiry-based science education 3. Primary school pre-service
teachers' enactment of inquiry-based-science teaching 4. The relationship
between teacher's support of literacy development and elementary students'
modelling proficiency in project-based learning science classrooms 5.
Promoting senior primary school students' understanding of particulate
nature of matter through inquiry instruction with multiple representations
6. Fostering senior primary school students' understanding of climate
change in an inquiry-based learning environment 7. Primary teacher
educators' practices in and perspectives on inquiry-based science
education: insights into the Australian landscape 8. A coteaching model for
developing pre-service teachers' practice and confidence in teaching
primary science through inquiry 9. A knowledge building approach to primary
science collaborative inquiry supported by learning analytics