Conceptual Mapping Facilitates Coherence and Critical Thinking in the Science Education System

2015 ◽  
pp. 1227-1258
Author(s):  
James Gorman ◽  
Jane Heinze-Fry
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Education System ◽  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
State Standards ◽  
Conceptual Mapping ◽  
Professional Educators ◽  
Connected Set ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Conceptual Maps

In this case, the authors propose a pathway of visual mapping through which the science education system from professional educators who produce representations of national and state standards to curriculum coordinators at the school district level to individual teachers and students in the classroom could be aligned in order to promote meaningful learning of a connected set of concepts. Conceptual mapping is demonstrated to be a tool that promotes critical thinking, cohesion, and meaningful learning in opposition to the learning of arbitrary facts and rote memorization. The authors offer many examples of conceptual maps that have been produced to externalize thinking at each level. This chapter provides a “synthesis case” demonstrating that not only does it require critical thinking to create conceptual maps, but, equally salient, these visual representations of our thinking catalyze further critical thinking and coherence within the science education system.

Conceptual Mapping Facilitates Coherence and Critical Thinking in the Science Education System

2014 ◽  
pp. 296-334
Author(s):  
James Gorman ◽  
Jane Heinze-Fry
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Education System ◽  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
State Standards ◽  
Conceptual Mapping ◽  
Professional Educators ◽  
Connected Set ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Conceptual Maps

In this case, the authors propose a pathway of visual mapping through which the science education system from professional educators who produce representations of national and state standards to curriculum coordinators at the school district level to individual teachers and students in the classroom could be aligned in order to promote meaningful learning of a connected set of concepts. Conceptual mapping is demonstrated to be a tool that promotes critical thinking, cohesion, and meaningful learning in opposition to the learning of arbitrary facts and rote memorization. The authors offer many examples of conceptual maps that have been produced to externalize thinking at each level. This chapter provides a “synthesis case” demonstrating that not only does it require critical thinking to create conceptual maps, but, equally salient, these visual representations of our thinking catalyze further critical thinking and coherence within the science education system.

MODEL FOR APPLICATION OF STEM APPROACH IN CONDITIONS OF DISTANCE LEARNING – STEM HOME LABORATORY

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-215
Author(s):  
Greta Stoyanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Successful Model ◽  
Scientific Experiment ◽  
At Home

The sudden shift to distance learning caused by the COVID-19 virus emergency has posed a serious challenge to schools. This article presents a successful model for applying the STEM approach in science education at the Alexander Georgiev-Kodzhakafaliyata Primary School in Burgas. In the conditions of synchronous distance learning in MS Teams environment, students conduct experiments with handy tools and materials at home, during online classes or as homework assignments, then describe the experiments in presentations and share them with their classmates during the project week ( April holidays and at the end of the year). The application of STEM home laboratory combines knowledge from different disciplines, diversifies and facilitates learning, enables learning by doing things, which most stimulates the curiosity of students. Thus, they casually acquire skills for planning and conducting a scientific experiment, generating hypotheses and reasoning, measuring results and formulating conclusions. At the same time, soft skills for teamwork, creative and critical thinking, presentation skills are formed and upgraded.

Pengembangan Modul Pembelajaran IPA Berbasis Entrepreneurship di SMK Negeri 2 Kota Jambi

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sica Septyenthi ◽  
Aprizal Lukman ◽  
Upik Yelianti
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Student Entrepreneurship ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
Module Development

Vocational high school consists of face-to-face learning and dual education system. Learning and dual education system may be either industrial work practices held for 3 or 6 months.During dual education system students can not attend face-to-face learning teaching material that students need to be able to learn independently. Specifically, learning science that students need to learn about the environment and its benefits for students.The purpose of this research is to develop instructional materials in the form of science module which helps students to learn independently and determine the response of vocational students to the science learning modules. Modules developed based entrepreneurship and contextual material with real life needs or students. The material presented is structured to support student entrepreneurship in order to be fit for purpose namely vocational work. This module development research design using the design development of Richey and Klein with Dick and Carey model for the development phase of the module material. Results of test responses of teachers and students concluded that the module gets a very good response, interesting and appropriate to the needs of students. Then the module materials can help students cultivate skills become entrepreneurs.

scholarly journals The environment and politics in science education: the case of teaching fracking

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda Dunlop ◽  
Lucy Atkinson ◽  
Maria Turkenburg-van Diepen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Young People ◽  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
School Science ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Illustrative Case

AbstractHydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’), like other complex social and environmental issues, is a controversy about science which raises educational questions about how best to prepare young people to understand, respond to and, where necessary, act (or not) in response. It raises political questions. We present a state-of-the-art review of research literature on fracking and education using systematic strategies, with a view to finding out how it is framed in educational situations and how politics enters the science classroom. This serves as an illustrative case of how contested scientific and technological interventions with implications for the environment and society are treated in school science. The review is supplemented by interviews with 10 teachers of science and engineering working in schools or colleges near sites of operational exploratory fracking. We find that the research literature on teaching hydraulic fracturing is sparse, with only 25 studies relating to teaching and learning about fracking. Few studies (n = 7) relate to high school education. Where it features in science education, fracking is used as a context for interdisciplinarity and critical thinking, and lends itself to approaches using discussion, dialogue and modelling. Outcomes from fracking education range include knowledge gains and critical thinking. Teachers interviewed tended not to see a place for fracking in the curriculum or in the classroom and were averse to including politics in upper high school science education. Our analysis suggests depoliticization through absence of this specific complex environmental issue from the public (education) sphere, reinforced by the desire for ‘balance’ in high school science education and instrumental approaches to science education which prioritize assessed learning outcomes. Dealing with complex social and environmental issues such as hydraulic fracturing in the years of compulsory science schooling is necessary because scientific knowledge is necessary but not sufficient to prepare young people for the critical scientific literacy required to meet sustainable development goals. There is a need to assess and respond to the educational needs of local communities affected by industrial interventions such as fracking. These findings are likely to be relatable to other issues where there are local and global consequences of action or inaction and where the environment and health are pitted against economic and energy demands.

FUNGSI FILSAFAT PANCASILA DALAM ILMU PENDIDIKAN DI INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-218
Author(s):  
Indra Gunawan ◽  
Ayu Vinlandari Wahyudi
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Educational Philosophy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
National Education ◽  
A Value ◽  
National Education System ◽  
Education Science

Pancasila has critical, fundamental, rational, systematic, comprehensive thoughts and eventually this system is a value. Pancasila provides fundamental and universal foundations for human beings in social, national, and state. Thus, through the philosophical values of Pancasila, the development of science education is expected to make it as main reference to national education system, which takes place as way to achieve goals and national objectives. The method in this paper is descriptive analytical. The data entered is the most relevant and primary related to the study of Pancasila and education science, then analysis is carried out to produce an ideas. The results demonstrate that educational philosophy of Pancasila as the spirit of national education system should actually lived as source of values and reference to planning the development of science education in Indonesia, both theoretically and practically. Keywords: Educational Philosophy; Science Education; Pancasila; Values.

Inconsistencies in Early Science Education: Can Nature Help Streamline State Standards?

Ecopsychology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Kloos ◽  
Talia Waltzer ◽  
Cathy Maltbie ◽  
Rhonda Douglas Brown ◽  
Victoria Carr
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
State Standards ◽  
Early Science Education

The Old and New Face of Civic Education: Expert, Teacher, and Student Views

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinrich Mintrop
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
International Association ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Expert Teacher ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teachers And Students

Using the representative database of the Second International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Civic Education Study, this article takes a look at civic education through the lens of expert scholars, teachers, and students. The data reveals that, as some of the experts reported, political interest is not pervasive among students and classrooms are not places where a culture of debate, controversy, and critical thinking flourishes for students. But things have changed if civic education was primarily an imparting of facts about national history and the workings of the political system. As for teachers, now the discourse of rights and the social movements associated with it top the list of curricular concerns. Large majorities of teachers share with national scholars a conceptualization of civic education as critical thinking and value education, repudiating knowledge transformation as ideal, and they recognize the wide gulf that exists between these ideals and reality. As for many students, political disinterest notwithstanding, forms of participation born out of social movements and community organizing are the preferred channels of political activity. And yet, it seems the experts have a point: the field is not where it should be.

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