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The culture of science education: Its history in person

Science education

Roth WM, Tobin K.
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K Tobin, WM Roth - 2007 - books.google.com

The Culture of Science Education: Its History in Person features the auto/biographies of the professional lives of 22 science educators from 11 countries situated in different places …

Beliefs about the nature of science and the enacted science curriculum

science curriculum

Tobin K.
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K Tobin, CJ McRobbie - Science & education, 1997 - Springer

… Although the nature of science is defined differently from place to place, … science curriculum to provide students with opportunities to learn science in ways that minimise the gap between the nature of science as it is represented...

What happens in high school science classrooms?

high school

Tobin K.
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K Tobin, JJ Gallagher - Journal of Curriculum studies, 1987 - Taylor & Francis

… High school science was the selected context for this study because of the emphasis placed on learning higher cognitive level knowledge in … Consequently, important reasons for conducting this study were to describe academic work in high school...

An interpretation of assessment methods in middle school science

middle school

Lorsbach AW, Tobin K.
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AW Lorsbach, K Tobin, C Briscoe… - International Journal of …, 1992 - Taylor & Francis

… was used to investigate the practices of two middle school teachers from an urban school in Florida. This study took place during the 1988-1989 school year. A research team of four …

The practice of constructivism in science education

Science education

Tobin KG.
GSID: f9KWPwYEAHwJ
KG Tobin - 1993 - books.google.com

… Chapter 5 commences with a question of whether or not the nature of science is important to … be a viable theory on which progress in science education can be supported. The second section … However, factors other...

Referents for changing a science curriculum: A case study of one teacher's change in beliefs

science curriculum

Tobin KG.
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KG Tobin, DJ Tippins, K Hook - Science & Education, 1994 - Springer

This interpretive investigation of curricular change involved Karl, a middle school science teacher. Initially, he made sense of his and student roles in terms of objectivism and the teacher having control. When Karl had opportunities to observe the teaching...

Relationships between metaphors, beliefs, and actions in a context of science curriculum change

science curriculum

Tobin K.
GSID: JE5Lpl8TAoUJ
K Tobin, SU LaMaster - Journal of Research in Science …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library

This study is an interpretive investigation of Sarah, a first‐time teacher of middle‐ and high‐school science who, because of high levels of disruption, was unable to establish and maintain environments favorable to learning. Sarah reflected on her roles as...

Gender equity and the enacted science curriculum

science curriculum

Tobin K.
GSID: MJyebKxIYQQJ
K Tobin - Gender, science and mathematics, 1996 - Springer

At the beginning of the 20th century, the world was on the brink of technological revolution. Science and technology were partners in a process of change that rapidly would transform the way in which people lived their lives and...

Effects of teacher wait time on discourse characteristics in mathematics and language arts classes

science instruction

Tobin K.
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K Tobin - American Educational Research Journal, 1986 - journals.sagepub.com

Ten classes were randomly assigned to a group that received feedback and assistance to maintain an average teacher wait time of between 3 and 5 seconds during a sequence of …

Constraints to curriculum reform: Teachers and the myths of schooling

field instruction

Tobin K.
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K Tobin, G Dawson - Educational technology research and development, 1992 - Springer

Curriculum reform efforts usually have ignored the culture in which curriculum is embedded. Principal components of the culture are the knowledge of teachers and the myths of this …

Overcoming Constraints to Effective Elementary Science Teaching

Science education

Tobin K.
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K Tobin - Science Education, 1990 - ERIC

… ERIC - Institute of Education Sciences … Science Education , v74 n4 p409-20 Jul 1990 Described is how an elementary teacher established an environment conducive to learning in her classroom by implementing her own integrated science and mathematics...

Second international handbook of science education

Science education

Fraser BJ, Tobin KG.
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BJ Fraser, KG Tobin, CJ McRobbie - 2012 - Springer

… of science; out-of-school learning; learning environments; literacy and language; and research methods. Leading scholars in science education … are resources for positively transforming science education while at the same time accurately reflecting the potential of science …

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