Science Education As a Research Field

Science Education As a Research Field Within a Domain of Enquiry

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Chapter 1 is Science Education As a Research Field Within a Domain of Enquiry

Contents:

• 1.1 A Research Topic: Learning Science
• 1.1.1 The Construction Metaphor for Learning
• 1.2  Sharing Meanings for Key Terms
• 1.2.1  Learning as a Potential for New Behaviour
• 1.2.2  Knowledge as a Label for What Is Currently Considered to Be So
• 1.2.3  Beliefs, Ideas and Conceptions.
• 1.2.4  Thinking and the Mind
• 1.3  Locating the Research Topic in a ‘Field of Study’
• 1.3.1  The Wider Domain of Enquiry
• 1.3.2  The Relationship of Topic and Field
• 1.3.3  Progressing Science Education?
• 1.4  The Domain of Enquiry – Background to the Field
• 1.4.1 Public and Personal Knowledge
• 1.5  Philosophical Views on Learning
• 1.5.1  Dewey’s Pragmatic View of Knowledge
• 1.5.2  Glasersfeld’s Radical Constructivism
• 1.6  Influences from Psychological Studies of Development
• 1.6.1  Piaget’s Construction of the Child’s World
• 1.6.2  Vygotsky and Scaffolded Construction of Our Worlds
• 1.6.3  Kelly’s Personal Constructs of the World
• 1.6.4  Perry’s Model of Intellectual Development.
• 1.7  Studies of Cognition
• 1.7.1  Introspection and Behaviourism
• 1.7.2  Gestalt Theorists
• 1.7.3  Learning Through Metaphor
• 1.7.4  Information Processing Models
• 1.8  Structure of Mind.
• 1.8.1 General Processing Models

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