Teachers' Language of Inquiry : The Conflation Between Methods of Teaching and Scientific Inquiry in Science Education

Teachers' Language of Inquiry : The Conflation Between Methods of Teaching and Scientific Inquiry in Science Education

The objective of this thesis is to describe and analyse customs of science teaching in secondary schools and teacher education programmes in Sweden in relation to the notion of “inquiry” in science education. The main focus is on customs of language use and the educational goal of learning about sci...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gyllenpalm, Jakob
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för matematikämnets och naturvetenskapsämnenas didaktik 2010
Subjects:
inquiry
secondary school
teacher education
laboratory work
hypothesis
experiment
language
sociocultural
pragmatism
customs
cultural institutions
pivot term
nature of science
focus groups
Subject didactics
Ämnesdidaktik
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-42694
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7447-122-9

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http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7447-122-9

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