This work aims to analyze the understanding of science teachers about the approach of topics in class related to context problems, especially the pesticide theme. This research is qualitative and the instruments used were questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. aiscursive textual analysis was used as an analytical procedure. The results allo...
This work presents the analysis of the results of an extension course held at IFRS – Campus Canoas aiming at the continuous education of science teachers in basic education. The course was organized based on the assumptions of educating through research, thus each teacher taking part in the course elaborated a reconstructive questioning, and from t...
Amy Goods’s software review article V-Note: A video analysis tool for teacher | researchers stimulated our interest in adopting this software to understand social bonding dynamics in a group of 10th-grade science students’ during a science inquiry project. Three of us employed V-Note to analyze two video files for the same lesson in which the stude...
Abstract: This paper discusses the development of Cognitive Abilities of students to carry out inquiry activities, relating them to aspects involving neuroscience. The goal is to discuss and to analyze how investigative activities benefit the development of Cognitive Abilities for scientific research and activate Executive Functions in the light of...
Published in Research in Science Education
We report on findings from a qualitative study of Australian scientists whose work brings them into contact with the public. This research sought to understand how a school science curriculum could better represent the work of scientists today. We discuss the views expressed by our participant scientists about the importance of openness and open-mi...
Published in Research in Science Education
In 2013, as part of a process to renew an overall sector vision for science education, Catholic Education Melbourne (CEM) undertook a review of its existing teacher in-service professional development programs in science. This review led to some data analysis being conducted in relation to two of these programs where participant teachers were posit...
This paper aims to present a proposal for interdisciplinary activity involving the disciplines of Sciences and Physical Education of Elementary Education. The theme is worked the food chain and the practical activity involves a dodgeball game on this topic. The game was organized to bring the students to understand the trophic chain through a dynam...
Published in International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education
A 30-item questionnaire was designed to determine Omani science teachers’ attitudes toward teaching science and whether or not these attitudes differ according to gender and teaching experiences of teachers. The questionnaire items were divided into 3 domains: classroom preparation, managing hands-on science, and development appropriateness. The qu...
Published in Cultural Studies of Science Education
For many students, the experience with science tends to be alienating and uprooting. In this study, I take up Simone Weil’s concepts of enracinement (rooting) and déracinement (uprooting) to theorize the root of this alienation, the confrontation between children’s familiarity with the world and unfamiliar/strange scientific conceptions. I build on...
Published in Journal of Science Teacher Education
This paper provides a rationale for the changes advocated by the Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards. It provides an argument for why the model embedded in the Next Generation Science Standards is seen as an improvement. The Case made here is that the underlying model that the new Framework presents of sci...
