Learning science by doing it has long been practiced by teachers in K-12 schools. Science educators think it should be more common in college classrooms, too. A story in the academic journal Science ...

The Journal of Education, Vol. 192, No. 2/3, SCHOOLS and SCHOOLING (2011/2012), pp. 79-87 (9 pages) This study makes a contribution to the field of pre-service and inservice teacher education by ...

Teachers must be able to combine several important kinds of knowledge in order to successfully implement classroom science instruction for concept learning. These include knowledge of science content, ...

In this investigation, we analyzed the processes of knowing and interacting in an open-inquiry learning environment that was planned and implemented by teachers who used the metaphor of cognitive ...