6 Learning Science from umaGogo: The Value of Teaching Practice in Semi-rural School Contexts

2022 ◽  
pp. 98-116
Author(s):  
Annemarie Hattingh
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally A. Larsen ◽  
Callie Little

Decades of educational genetics research has highlighted that differences in academic achievement are partly explained by genetic variation between individuals. Consequently, there is ongoing discussion about whether genetic influences on educationally-related traits should be more widely acknowledged in schools and communicated specifically to teachers. Nonetheless, there is little research on how teachers might interpret such information, and how it might alter their perceptions of the students they teach, or their teaching practice. In this review we draw on the mixed blessings model proposed by Haslam and Kvaale (2015) as a framework for defining both positive and negative repercussions of disseminating the findings of educational genetic research to teachers. We discuss research examining teacher perceptions of student ability and behavior, and findings outlining perceptions of psychological disorders when genetic explanations are invoked. We conclude by proposing new directions for research designed to better understand interpretations of genetic information in school contexts.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-77
Author(s):  
Shelley Jones

This paper discusses findings from a feminist participatory action research study conducted in the West Nile region of Northern Uganda with a group of 35 educators who attended a one-week intensive professional development course focused on promoting gender equality in schools. Through a theoretical and methodological framework of multiliteracies and multimodality, gender constructs were “exposed” (Butler, 1988) and “disoriented” (Ahmed, 2006), opening new spaces for the promotion of gender equality, as well as pedagogical approaches to literacy that the participants could integrate into their own teaching practice to facilitate transformative learning in their own school contexts.


2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
NAYDENE DE LANGE ◽  
MATHABO KHAU ◽  
LOGAN ATHIEMOOLAM

Author(s):  
Mário Sérgio Nunes Bica ◽  
Pâmela Billig Mello Carpes ◽  
Rafael Roehrs

Resumo: O ensino de ciências pressupõe um conjunto de diferentes símbolos e formas de comunicação, por conta disso, torna-se questionável um esquema educacional baseado num único formato representativo. Conforme apontam programas internacionais de avaliação e as nossas diretrizes curriculares, o processo para aprender ciência envolve um desafio representacional em uma variedade de contextos. Nesse sentido, existe uma linha de investigação da área do ensino de ciências, denominada Múltiplas Representações, que defende a utilização de diferentes formas de comunicação no processo de ensino e aprendizagem. Estudos recentes da neurociência apontam alguns resultados que se inserem nessa perspectiva, relacionando conhecimentos fundamentais das bases neurobiológicas da aprendizagem, da memória, das emoções, sobretudo respeitando a individualidade cognitiva dos alunos. Esse trabalho apresenta pontos de convergência entre referenciais do ensino de ciências e postulados do campo da neurociência, em que ambos podem vir a amparar e contribuir sobre o processo da prática docente no ensino de ciências.Palavras-chave: Neurociência. Múltiplas Representações. Ensino de Ciências. Cognição. Memória. THE CONVERGENCE BETWEEN NEUROSCIENCE AND THE MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIONS FOR SCIENCE TEACHINGAbstract: The teaching of sciences presupposes a set of different symbols and forms of communication. Because of this, it becomes questionable an educational schemed based on a single representative format. As pointed out by international evaluation programs and our curricular guidelines, the process of learning science involves a representational challenge in a variety of contexts. In this sense, there is a line of research in the area of science teaching, denominated multiple representations, which advocate the use of different forms of communication in the teaching and learning process. Recent studies of neuroscience point to some results that fit into this perspective, linking fundamental knowledge of the neurobiological bases of learning, of memory, of emotions, above all respecting the students cognitive individuality. This work presents points of convergence between reference points of science teaching and postulates of neuroscience field, in which both can come to support and contribute to the process of teaching practice in science teaching.Keywords: Neuroscience. Multiple Representations. Science teaching. Cognition. Memory.


1922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn C. Perry
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