Learner-centered science education / / Cliff Malcom, Rubby Dhunpath.

This book arises from the author’s experience of the South African science curriculum development and teaching since 1994, exploring definitions of science and approaches to science education appropriate to a newly liberated developing country. Each of the 50 chapters is borne out of Cliff Malcolm’s...

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Superior document:Cultural perspectives in science education. Distinguished contributors ; Volume 1
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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2008]
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Cultural perspectives in science education. Distinguished contributors ; Volume 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Transformational outcomes-based education? / Rubby Dhunpath
  • The fish and the fly / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Learner-centred education / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Outcomes and outcomes / Rubby Dhunpath
  • The matriculation camp / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Begin at the middle / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Ask Greg and Joanne / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Pauline Hansen and the Devil’s bargain / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Listening to the children / Rubby Dhunpath
  • The technology of schooling / Rubby Dhunpath
  • That’s not assessment, that’s teaching / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Parallel lines that meet / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Choosing the content of ‘Science’ / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Teachers as professionals / Rubby Dhunpath
  • The world as a machine / Rubby Dhunpath
  • May you grow to be strong / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Microcosm of a bigger world? / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Humans began here / Rubby Dhunpath
  • People make it happen / Rubby Dhunpath
  • The personal nature of teaching and learning / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Challenge, continuity and learning / Rubby Dhunpath
  • One god, one true love, one right answer / Rubby Dhunpath
  • In and out of the mainstream / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Authority, power and learner-centred education / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Shopping for a culture? / Rubby Dhunpath
  • How much freedom do we give? / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Does curry dissolve? / Rubby Dhunpath
  • HIV/AIDS, the pandemic / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Good tests are hard to write! / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Which knowledge is persuasive? / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Learning from children, little princes and frogs / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Travelling to Brazil: the IOSTE Conference / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Values, knowledge and science / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Eclipsed / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Science, science education and war / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Science and beliefs in medicine / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Science literacy in a diverse world? / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Generosity, energy and power / Rubby Dhunpath
  • My father is always right / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Learning through work / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Context, relevance and interest / Rubby Dhunpath
  • More than tests can show / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Creativity as essential learning? / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Successful science is not in the genes / Rubby Dhunpath
  • How I like to learn / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Teachers’ motivations / Rubby Dhunpath
  • When beliefs and knowledge are not enough / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Unplugged / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Problems with identity / Rubby Dhunpath
  • Coming home / Rubby Dhunpath.