| Contributions
from Science Education Research
Editors:
Roser Pintó & Digna Couso
The
ESERA Selected Contributions book “Contributions
from Science Education Research” is ready
for distribution from Springer Science Business
Media B.V. This book includes 37 edited papers
from the most outstanding contribution in the
ESERA Conference held in Barcelona in 2005.
Members of ESERA, participants of the ESERA Conference
in 2005 and/or 2007 can obtain the book at a reduced
price: 23,70€ plus shipping costs (5€
within Europe/ 10€ rest of the world), by
filling an order form.
The
book is the Selected Contributions from the ESERA
Conference 2005. In that Conference, over 540
researchers in the field of Science Education
Research met in Barcelona, Spain. This was the
fifth biannual ESERA conference since the foundation
of the Association in 1995. Researchers came from
all over the world from more than 40 different
countries, mainly from Europe, but also from Asia,
North and South America, Australia and Africa.
Together with long experienced scholars, more
than 150 young researchers discussed their work.
As a result, 400 papers were presented in the
conference. Interestingly, more than 130 of them
were presented as Simposia among different researchers
from diverse research groups, providing enriched
scenarios where specific themes of Science Education
could be more widely discussed.
The
present book wants to offer the reader some of
these interesting Contributions from Science Education
Research. The volume includes edited versions
of the 37 most outstanding papers presented during
the conference, including the lectures of the
invited keynote speakers. All contributions have
been selected for their quality, variety and interest,
with the aim to offer the present panorama of
the Science Education Research field worldwide.
The review of these papers was done following
a double-blind process which relied on the expertise
of a group of distinguished
scholars in the field.
The
book is divided in 9 parts, covering a wide range
of relevant topics for science education research
nowadays, from more general to more specific ones.
Part 1 deals with the issue of students’
interest in learning science, discussing the results
of international studies such as TIMMS and PISA;
presenting science education research results
for enhancing students’ interest and studying
gender’ issues and its relation with interest
in science.
Part 2 presents new approaches to Science Education
research and discusses the impact of research
in actual practice.
Part 3 deals with Science Teachers Education,
Knowledge and Practices, showing the importance
given by the Science Education Research field
to teachers, being this the topic with more papers
presented both in the conference and the book.
Parts 4, 5 and 6 are devoted to research on teaching
and learning. We have divided them according to
their focus when studying the teaching and learning
situation. Part 4 presents papers with a stronger
focus in the general process of learning science.
Part 5 includes studies focused on the actual
teaching and learning of specific scientific concepts.
Part 6 presents studies where innovative teaching
and learning environments, either formal or informal,
are analysed.
The remaining three chapters of the book are devoted
to specific themes in Science Education which
are acquiring a great interest in the last years.
These are Part 7 about Models and Modelling, Part
8 about Discourse and Argumentation in Science
Education and Part 9 about Multimedia and Computer
tools for teaching and learning science.
We hope this classification would help the reader,
even though the interrelation among different
fields of educational research makes possible
to classify many of the contributions in more
than one of the mentioned sections.
For
a more detailed description of the book, please
see the Table of Contents.
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