The world of science education : : handbook of research in north america / / edited by Wolff-Michael Roth & Kenneth Tobin.

• TeilnehmendeR: Roth, Wolff-Michael, 1953-; Tobin, Kenneth George, 1944-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Science Education 2/1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Each volume in the 7-volume series The World of Science Education reviews research in a key region of the world. These regions include North America, South and Latin America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe and Israel, North Africa and the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The focus of this Handbook is on North American (Canada, US) science education and the scholarship that most closely supports this program. The reviews of the research situate what has been accomplished within a given field in North American rather an than international context. The purpose therefore is to articulate and exhibit regional networks and trends that produced specific forms of science education. The thrust lies in identifying the roots of research programs and sketching trajectories—focusing the changing façade of problems and solutions within regional contexts. The approach allows readers review what has been done and accomplished, what is missing, and what might be done next.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin -- Introduction / Wolff-Michael Roth and Ken Tobin -- Theory and Method in Science Education / Wolff-Michael Roth and Ken Tobin -- Sociocultural and Cultural-Historical Frameworks for Science Education / Regina Smardon -- A Critical and Creative Inquiry into School Science Inquiry / J. Lawrence Bencze and Steve Alsop -- Inquiry Science as a Language of Possibility in Troubled Times / Steve Alsop and G. Michael Bowen -- Qualitative Methods in Science Education / Kenneth Tobin and Wolff-Michael Roth -- Quantitative Methods in Science Education / Finbarr Sloane -- Modeling Student Development in Science Education / Finbarr Sloane , Brandon Helding and Anthony Kelly -- Beyond Method / Wolff-Michael Roth -- Teaching and Learning Science / Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin -- Genesis and Evolution of the Learning Cycle / Edmund A. Marek -- Technology to Support Science Education / Donna Degennaro -- Learning for Life / Lynn D. Dierking and John H. Falk -- Undergraduate Biochemistry Education / Donald D. Bratton III and Penny J. Gilmer -- Science Communication, Language, and Literacy / Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin -- Insights and Contributions of Discourse Studies on Talking Science / Pei-Ling Hsu -- Scientific Literacy: Past Research, Present Conceptions, and Future Developments / Michiel van Eijck -- Nonverbal Aspects of Communication and Interaction and their Role in Teaching and Learning Science / Lilian Pozzer-Ardenghi -- Taking Seriously Reading of Science / Stephen P. Norris and Linda M. Phillips -- Writing in Classroom Science / Brian Hand and Aeran Choi -- Research on Inscriptions / Lilian Pozzer-Ardenghi -- Equity in Science Education / Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin -- Low Status and Positionality of African Americans / Eileen C. Parsons , Jamila S. Simpson and James Cooper -- We are More Different than Alike / Alejandro José Gallard Martínez -- Diversity and Equity in Science Education for Asians in North America / Xiufeng Liu and Guofang Li -- The Power of the Earth is a Circle / Carol B. Brandt and Karl Kosko -- Feminisms and a World Not Yet / Angela Calabrese Barton -- Gender Differences in Science / Jasna Jovanovic and Ruchi Bhanot -- Context and Science Education / Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin -- Research Priorities for Transforming Urban Science Education / Kenneth Tobin -- Evolution of an Urban Research Program / Cristobal Carambo -- Teaching for Social Justice in Urban Science Education / Maria S. Rivera Maulucci -- Cogenerative Dialogues / Gillian U. Bayne -- As if Local People and Places Mattered / Deborah J. Tippins and Michael P. Mueller -- Science Teacher Education / Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin -- Exploring Science Teacher Education / Julie A. Luft -- Learning to Teach Science / Sonya N. Martin -- Engaging Preservice Secondary Science Teachers with Inquiry Activities / G. Michael Bowen and J. Lawrence Bencze -- Improving Science Education / Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin -- The Context for Developing Leadership In Mathematics and Science Education / James J. Gallagher , Robert Floden and Charles Anderson.