Full Description
This book starts with the premise that beauty can be an engine of transformation and authentic engagement in an increasingly complex world. It presents an organized picture of highlights from the 13th European Science Education Research Association Conference, ESERA 2019, held in Bologna, Italy. The collection includes contributions that discuss contemporary issues such as climate change, multiculturalism, and the flourishing of new interdisciplinary areas of investigation, including the application of cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and digital humanities to science education research. It also highlights learners' difficulties engaging with socio-scientific issues in a digital and post-truth era. The volume demonstrates that deepening our understanding is the preferred way to address these challenges and that science education has a key role to play in this effort. In particular, the book advances the argument that the deep and novel character of these challenges requires a collective search for new narratives and languages, an expanding knowledge base and new theoretical perspectives and methods of research. The book provides a contemporary picture of science education research and looks to the theoretical and practical societal challenges of the future.
Contents
Chapter 1. Beauty and pleasure of understanding - Words of Introduction (IgalGalili).- Part I: Meeting societal challenges.- Chapter 2. The white noise of climate change (Andri SnærMagnason).- Chapter 3. Prediction and adaption in Science|Environment|Health contexts (Albert Zeyer, Nuria Álvaro, Julia Arnold, Deidre Bauer, IztokDevetak, Sonja PosegaDevetak, Valentín Gavidia, Kerstin Kremer, Olga Mayoral,TinaVeselTajnšek, and AllaKeselman).- Chapter 4. Inquiry Based Learning and Responsible Research and Innovation: examples of interdisciplinary approaches at different schooling levels (Claudio Fazio, Amélia Branco, MojcaČepič, CláudiaFaria, Odilla E. Finlayson, CecíliaGalvão, Luís F. Goulão, Eilish McLoughlin, JernejaPavlin, DagmaraSokolowska, Wanda Viegas, Marisa Michelini).- Chapter 5. International perspectives on science education research in multicultural and multilingual contexts (MarionaEspinet, Sonya N. Martin, Alberto J. Rodríguez, SaoumaBouJaoude, Audrey Msimanga).- Chapter6. Policy and pedagogy: International reform and design challenges for science and stem education (Richard A. Duschl, Doris Jorde, Eilish McLoughlin, Jonathan Osborne).- Chapter 7. PISA 2015: What can science education learn from the data? (Jonathan Osborne, Cory Forbes, Knut Neumann, Anja Schiepe-Tiska, Mylène Duclos, Florence Le Hebel, Andrée Tiberghien, Pascale Montpied, Valérie Fontanieu, Sara Dozier, Davide Azzolini, Nicola Bazoli, Loris Vergolini).- Chapter 8. Network analysis of changes to an integrated science course curriculum over time (Jesper Bruun, Ida Viola Kalmark Andersen, Linda Udby).- Part II: Expanding the evidence base.- Chapter 9. Developmental patterns of students' understanding of core concepts in secondary school chemistry (Sascha Bernholt, Lars Höft).- Chapter 10. Learning evolution - A longterm case-study with a focus on variation and change (Martin Scheuch, Jaqueline Scheibstock, Heidemarie Amon, Gerald Fuchs, Christine Heidinger).- Chapter 11. What is city air made of? An analysis of pupils' conceptions of clean and polluted air (Èlia Tena, Digna Couso).- Chapter 12. Undergraduates' grasp of evidence for evaluating scientific knowledge claims associated with Socioscientific Issues (Won Jung Kim, Alicia Alonzo).- Chapter 13. Psychological patterns in chemistry self-concept: Relations with gender and culture (Lilith Rüschenpöhler; SilvijaMarkic).- Chapter 14. Undergraduate science majors' identity work in the context of a science outreach program: Understanding the role of science capital (Alexandre Cavalcante, Allison J. Gonsalves).- Chapter 15. Pre-Service teachers' psychological distance towards environmental and health Socio-scientific Issues (Alexander Georg Büssing, Jacqueline Dupont, Susanne Menzel).- Chapter 16. Self-efficacy of in-service secondary school teachers in relation to education for sustainable development: Preliminary findings (Athanasios Mogias, George Malandrakis, Penelope Papadopoulou, Costas Gavrilakis).- Part III: Developing innovative theoretical perspectives and methodologies.- Chapter 17. Where are we? Syntheses and Synergies in Science education research and practices (Bruce Sherin).- Chapter 18. Processes of Building Theories of Learning: Three Contrasting Cases (Andrea A. diSessa, Mariana Levin).- Chapter 19. Understanding the role of image schemas in science concept learning: can educational neuroscience help? (Tamer G. Amin).- Chapter 20. Emotional engagement in the application of experimental activities withyoung childrens (Kellys Saucedo, MaurícioPietrocola).- Chapter 21. Crossing boundaries - Examining and problematizing interdisciplinarity in science education (ShulamitKapon, Sibel Erduran).- Part IV: Designing research-based instruction.- Chapter 22. Augmented reality in lower secondary science teaching: teachers and students as producers (Birgitte Lund Nielsen, Harald Brandt).- Chapter 23. Visualisation and spatial thinking in primary students' understandings of astronomy (Russell Tytler, Peta White, Joanne Mulligan).- Chapter 24. Discipline-based educational research to improve active learning at university (Daniele Buongiorno, Robert Harry Evans, SergejFaletič, JenaroGuisasola, Paula Heron, Marisa Michelini, GorazdPlaninšič, Paulo Sarriugarte, Alberto Stefanel, Kristina Zuza).- Chapter 25. Instructional activities predicting epistemic emotions in finnish upper secondary school science lessons: combining experience sampling and video observations (Elisa Vilhunen, XinTang, KalleJuuti, JariLavonen, KatariinaSalmela-Aro).
