Research in science education
Not offered in 1995
Associate Professor R F Gunstone
Second semester * Clayton
This subject provides an opportunity for students to explore issues in science education in some depth with a more detailed use of its research and review literature. These issues can be centred around the science teacher, the science learner, the science classroom and science itself. The first three lead to studies of the teaching strategies, the role of the learner and curriculum in science to meet learner needs. A section of the program is devoted to science per se, but with its communication to students very much in mind. Students may have the opportunity to work individually with staff of the Faculty of Science on projects whose emphasis is (in the communication sense described above) either the up-dating of their science knowledge or the development of options for classroom use in new content areas.
Assessment
Written: 90% * Seminar participation: 10%