Learner-centered science education / Cliff Malcom, Rubby Dhunpath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malcolm, Clifford K. (Clifford Keith), 1943- author.

Dhunpath, Rubby, author.

Series:

Cultural perspectives in science education. Distinguished contributors ; Volume 1.

Cultural perspectives in science education. Distinguished contributors ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Study and teaching.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam ; Taipei : Sense Publishers, [2008]

Summary:

This book arises from the author’s experience of the South African science curriculum development and teaching since 1994, exploring definitions of science and approaches to science education appropriate to a newly liberated developing country. Each of the 50 chapters is borne out of Cliff Malcolm’s close relationships with communities in SA where he obtained deep insights into their attitudes to science teaching and learning, providing him with an empirical basis to challenge tertiary institutions to transform their curriculum offerings to embrace the culture and world views of African students. The author makes a compelling case for the evolution of relevant science teaching and learning that provide ‘capital’ for indigenous knowledges. The book has relevance also to first world countries, because the social and educational problems facing South Africa, though starker here, are present in all countries. The book addresses, among others, the nature of scientific knowledge and knowledge production; how scientific knowledge can be accessed and represented; what counts as legitimate scientific knowledge in the South African context of colonization, liberation, inequity and African belief systems. The book extends the debates on “African” Science, and offers ways of talking and writing about science that reframe it, acknowledging problematics and pluralism, offering ways of bringing Western and African thought together. Using a richly descriptive novelistic style, the author sketches vivid portraits of his research sites, participants and experiences. His vignettes are embedded in deep theoretical insights, lending gravity to the development discourse in science education, providing a coherent language for the transformational agendas of science educators committed to the project of social justice through a relevant science.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Rubby Dhunpath

Transformational outcomes-based education? / Rubby Dhunpath

The fish and the fly / Rubby Dhunpath

Learner-centred education / Rubby Dhunpath

Outcomes and outcomes / Rubby Dhunpath

The matriculation camp / Rubby Dhunpath

Begin at the middle / Rubby Dhunpath

Ask Greg and Joanne / Rubby Dhunpath

Pauline Hansen and the Devil’s bargain / Rubby Dhunpath

Listening to the children / Rubby Dhunpath

The technology of schooling / Rubby Dhunpath

That’s not assessment, that’s teaching / Rubby Dhunpath

Parallel lines that meet / Rubby Dhunpath

Choosing the content of ‘Science’ / Rubby Dhunpath

Teachers as professionals / Rubby Dhunpath

The world as a machine / Rubby Dhunpath

May you grow to be strong / Rubby Dhunpath

Microcosm of a bigger world? / Rubby Dhunpath

Humans began here / Rubby Dhunpath

People make it happen / Rubby Dhunpath

The personal nature of teaching and learning / Rubby Dhunpath

Challenge, continuity and learning / Rubby Dhunpath

One god, one true love, one right answer / Rubby Dhunpath

In and out of the mainstream / Rubby Dhunpath

Authority, power and learner-centred education / Rubby Dhunpath

Shopping for a culture? / Rubby Dhunpath

How much freedom do we give? / Rubby Dhunpath

Does curry dissolve? / Rubby Dhunpath

HIV/AIDS, the pandemic / Rubby Dhunpath

Good tests are hard to write! / Rubby Dhunpath

Which knowledge is persuasive? / Rubby Dhunpath

Learning from children, little princes and frogs / Rubby Dhunpath

Travelling to Brazil: the IOSTE Conference / Rubby Dhunpath

Values, knowledge and science / Rubby Dhunpath

Eclipsed / Rubby Dhunpath

Science, science education and war / Rubby Dhunpath

Science and beliefs in medicine / Rubby Dhunpath

Science literacy in a diverse world? / Rubby Dhunpath

Generosity, energy and power / Rubby Dhunpath

My father is always right / Rubby Dhunpath

Learning through work / Rubby Dhunpath

Context, relevance and interest / Rubby Dhunpath

More than tests can show / Rubby Dhunpath

Creativity as essential learning? / Rubby Dhunpath

Successful science is not in the genes / Rubby Dhunpath

How I like to learn / Rubby Dhunpath

Teachers’ motivations / Rubby Dhunpath

When beliefs and knowledge are not enough / Rubby Dhunpath

Unplugged / Rubby Dhunpath

Problems with identity / Rubby Dhunpath

Coming home / Rubby Dhunpath.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-8790-663-3

OCLC:

314633681

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789087906634 DOI