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Modelling-based Teaching in Science Education
✍ Scribed by John K. Gilbert, Rosária Justi (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 279
- Series
- Models and Modeling in Science Education 9
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
This book argues that modelling should be a component of all school curricula that aspire to provide ‘authentic science education for all’. The literature on modelling is reviewed and a ‘model of modelling’ is proposed. The conditions for the successful implementation of the ‘model of modelling’ in classrooms are explored and illustrated from practical experience. The roles of argumentation, visualisation, and analogical reasoning, in successful modelling-based teaching are reviewed. The contribution of such teaching to both the learning of key scientific concepts and an understanding of the nature of science are established. Approaches to the design of curricula that facilitate the progressive grasp of the knowledge and skills entailed in modelling are outlined. Recognising that the approach will both represent a substantial change from the ‘content-transmission’ approach to science teaching and be in accordance with current best-practice in science education, the design of suitable approaches to teacher education are discussed. Finally, the challenges that modelling-based education pose to science education researchers, advanced students of science education and curriculum design, teacher educators, public examiners, and textbook designers, are all outlined.
✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Facing the Challenges to Science Education in Schools: The Contribution of Modelling....Pages 1-15
Models of Modelling....Pages 17-40
Towards Authentic Learning in Science Education....Pages 41-56
Approaches to Modelling-Based Teaching....Pages 57-80
Learning Scientific Concepts from Modelling-Based Teaching....Pages 81-95
The Role of Argumentation in Modelling-Based Teaching....Pages 97-120
The Contribution of Visualisation to Modelling-Based Teaching....Pages 121-148
Analogies in Modelling-Based Teaching and Learning....Pages 149-169
Learning About Science Through Modelling-Based Teaching....Pages 171-192
Learning Progression During Modelling-Based Teaching....Pages 193-222
Educating Teachers to Facilitate Modelling-Based Teaching....Pages 223-251
Modelling-Based Teaching and Learning: Current Challenges and Novel Perspectives....Pages 253-262
Back Matter....Pages 263-264
✦ Subjects
Science Education;Teaching and Teacher Education
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