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View article: Expanding the Scope of Science Education to Engage with Anthropocene Challenges
Expanding the Scope of Science Education to Engage with Anthropocene Challenges Open
While the socio-ecological challenges of the Anthropocene are complex and interdisciplinary in nature, contemporary science is profoundly implicated in understanding and responding to them. The latest Organisation for Economic Cooperation …
View article: Science Education: Fit for the Future - Editorial
Science Education: Fit for the Future - Editorial Open
View article: A Review of “<i>Juice</i>” - T. Winton (2024). Juice. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin).
A Review of “<i>Juice</i>” - T. Winton (2024). Juice. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin). Open
View article: Aesthetics, affect, and making meaning in science education: an introduction
Aesthetics, affect, and making meaning in science education: an introduction Open
View article: Fostering Epistemic Space for Collaborative Solutions in Primary Science Through a Socratic Seminar Inquiry Approach
Fostering Epistemic Space for Collaborative Solutions in Primary Science Through a Socratic Seminar Inquiry Approach Open
With the critical nature of socio-ecological challenges, the need to empower young people to generatively grapple with these science-related issues is crucial for developing their agentic citizenship. This paper reports on a primary scienc…
View article: Guiding student transduction in elementary school astronomy
Guiding student transduction in elementary school astronomy Open
Science educators now broadly recognize the multimodal nature of learning in science, where learners make meanings within modes (linguistic, mathematical, visual, and actional) by using the conventions of different sign systems or grammars…
View article: Interdisciplinary aesthetics when science and drama are linked
Interdisciplinary aesthetics when science and drama are linked Open
There is a strong tradition of viewing these two school subjects as mutually enhancing, but aesthetic aspects of this interplay are less studied. In this paper we define disciplinary aesthetics as appreciation and enjoyment of the what and…
View article: Exploring a framework for integrated STEM: challenges and benefits for promoting engagement in learning mathematics
Exploring a framework for integrated STEM: challenges and benefits for promoting engagement in learning mathematics Open
Advocacy of STEM curricular approaches is based on a concern to engage students in authentic disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) disciplines, and the need to promote part…
View article: A pragmatist semiotic analysis of secondary students’ embodied and material reasoning in astronomy
A pragmatist semiotic analysis of secondary students’ embodied and material reasoning in astronomy Open
Background In learning astronomy, students need to shift between 3D and 2D representations involving complex interactions between the body and material environment. Little attention has been paid to the iconic nature of this astronomical d…
View article: Implementing a pedagogical cycle to support data modelling and statistical reasoning in years 1 and 2 through the Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Science (IMS) project
Implementing a pedagogical cycle to support data modelling and statistical reasoning in years 1 and 2 through the Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Science (IMS) project Open
This paper illustrates how years 1 and 2 students were guided to engage in data modelling and statistical reasoning through interdisciplinary mathematics and science investigations drawn from an Australian 3-year longitudinal study: Interd…
View article: Critical thinking in primary science through a guided inquiry pedagogy: A semiotic perspective
Critical thinking in primary science through a guided inquiry pedagogy: A semiotic perspective Open
Although education research in critical thinking is a rapidly emerging field, how teachers can facilitate, monitor, and support critical thinking in primary science remains a challenge. This paper builds on recent semiotics mediated scient…
View article: Translating contemporary scientists’ knowledge and practice into classrooms: Scalable design supporting identity work
Translating contemporary scientists’ knowledge and practice into classrooms: Scalable design supporting identity work Open
There are new demands on science education for students moving into uncertain futures, including engagement with scientific practices, and understanding of the nature of science and scientists’ work. Furthermore, there is increasing recogn…
View article: Is the Universe Infinite? Characterising a Hierarchy of Reasoning in Student Conceptions of Cosmology Concepts Using Open-Ended Surveys
Is the Universe Infinite? Characterising a Hierarchy of Reasoning in Student Conceptions of Cosmology Concepts Using Open-Ended Surveys Open
Cosmology presents students with ideas that stimulate their curiosity and brings together various concepts from STEM that call on a variety of reasoning types across multiple representational modes, involving subtleties of spacetime relati…
View article: Improving primary science: schools' experience of change
Improving primary science: schools' experience of change Open
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View article: Picturing evaporation: learning Science literacy through a particle representation
Picturing evaporation: learning Science literacy through a particle representation Open
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View article: Talking to effective teachers of primary science
Talking to effective teachers of primary science Open
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View article: Supporting Curriculum Innovation in Integrated STEM for Secondary Teachers in Australia
Supporting Curriculum Innovation in Integrated STEM for Secondary Teachers in Australia Open
Given concerns in the Australian context about students’ attitudes and declining participation in STEM subjects in the senior secondary years, a range of initiatives have been developed to support teacher design of innovative STEM curricul…
View article: Supporting Student Transduction of Meanings Across Modes in Primary School Astronomy
Supporting Student Transduction of Meanings Across Modes in Primary School Astronomy Open
The multimodal nature of knowledge development and learning in science is now increasingly recognized. While researchers have focused on identifying how different representational modes afford meaning-making, the question of how students a…
View article: Characterising a Representation Construction Pedagogy for Integrating Science and Mathematics in the Primary School
Characterising a Representation Construction Pedagogy for Integrating Science and Mathematics in the Primary School Open
Growing research evidence indicates student learning gains from guided representation construction/invention in school science and mathematics. In this inquiry approach, students address challenges around what features of a phenomenon/prob…
View article: Designing and delivering representation-focused science lessons in a digital learning environment
Designing and delivering representation-focused science lessons in a digital learning environment Open
Inquiry-based representation-focused approaches in science education have shown promising outcomes when students engage in knowledge building via an active process of constructing, coordinating, and evaluating representations. To date, muc…
View article: Conceptualising the Cosmos: Development and Validation of the Cosmology Concept Inventory for High School
Conceptualising the Cosmos: Development and Validation of the Cosmology Concept Inventory for High School Open
Cosmology concepts encompass complex spatial and temporal relations that are counterintuitive. Cosmology findings, because of their intrinsic interest, are often reported in the public domain with enthusiasm, and students come to cosmology…
View article: Multimodal Literacy in School Science
Multimodal Literacy in School Science Open
This book establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for multimodal disciplinary literacy (MDL) fused with the subject-specific science pedagogies of senior high school biology, chemistry and physics. It builds a compatible alig…
View article: Cosmos visualized: Development of a qualitative framework for analyzing representations in cosmology education
Cosmos visualized: Development of a qualitative framework for analyzing representations in cosmology education Open
Our aesthetic response to the Universe, and the complexity of concepts through which we understand it, are inherently bound together in how we meaningfully interpret its nature. Over millennia the abstracted and intangible concepts of scie…
View article: Aesthetics, affect, and making meaning in science education: an introduction
Aesthetics, affect, and making meaning in science education: an introduction Open
This overview gives a background for this special issue of the International Journal of Science Education on Aesthetics, affect, and making meaning in science education. Contributions to this special issue examine how and what kind of aest…
View article: Unpacking the Purposes and Potential of Interdisciplinary STEM
Unpacking the Purposes and Potential of Interdisciplinary STEM Open
This chapter traces the development of STEM advocacy as a globalizing modernist discourse based in national competitive wealth creation agendas. It therefore addresses the drivers for STEM in schools by way of understanding state and indus…
View article: 100 Jobs of the Future: Research Engagement and Impact
100 Jobs of the Future: Research Engagement and Impact Open
In this contract research, Ford Australia originally negotiated for the team to construct a report about future work, and future jobs, that would be relevant to youth in thinking about preparing their future. However, the project was recon…
View article: An International View of STEM Education
An International View of STEM Education Open
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research are increasingly recognized globally as fundamental to national development and productivity, economic competitiveness and societal wellbeing. There has been a …
View article: Challenges and Opportunities for a STEM Interdisciplinary Agenda
Challenges and Opportunities for a STEM Interdisciplinary Agenda Open
There are increasing calls for the teaching of STEM within inter-disciplinary settings, as a way of engaging students in authentic tasks and innovation. However there have been concerns raised about the impact of inter-disciplinary curricu…
View article: A video study of quality teaching and learning in three countries
A video study of quality teaching and learning in three countries Open
This chapter describes a cross-national comparative study of primary teachers’ support of student reasoning in science, aimed at better understanding commonalities and differences in conceptions of quality teaching and learning across the …
View article: Strand 2: Introduction. Learning science: cognitive, affective, and social aspects
Strand 2: Introduction. Learning science: cognitive, affective, and social aspects Open
The papers in the Strand 2 section of the eProceedings demonstrate the breadth of research within the strand, focusing on epistemological and ontological features of learning science, cognitive aspects of learning including representationa…