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A conceptual guide to natural history museum visitors' understanding of evolution
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-03)
Museum visitors are an ideal population for assessing the persistence of the conceptual barriers that make it difficult to grasp Darwinian evolutionary theory. In comparison with other members of the public, they are more ...
THE GENETIC RECOMBINATION OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010-06)
The estrangement between genetic scientists and theologians originating in the 1960s is reflected in novel combinations of human thought (subject) and genes (investigational object), paralleling each other through the ...
Real-World Applications and Instructional Representations Among Prospective Elementary Science Teachers
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
This paper explores new elementary teachers' instructional representations and how these are related to their science subject matter knowledge. One pair of prospective elementary teachers studied here exhibited a ...
Development and Evaluation of an Inquiry-Based Elementary Science Teacher Education Program Reflecting Current Reform Movements
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-08)
The National Science Education Standards (National Research Council 1996, National science education standards . Washington, DC: National Academy Press) and various other national and state documents call for teachers who ...
Developing a hypothetical multi-dimensional learning progression for the nature of matter
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-08)
We describe efforts toward the development of a hypothetical learning progression (HLP) for the growth of grade 7–14 students' models of the structure, behavior and properties of matter, as it relates to nanoscale science ...
RITUAL, TIME, AND ENTERNITY
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1992-03)
It is argued here that the construction of time and eternity are among ritual's entailments. In dividing continuous duration into distinct periods ritual distinguishes two temporal conditions: (1) that prevailing in mundane ...
Urban schools' teachers enacting project-based science
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006-09)
What teaching practices foster inquiry and promote students to learn challenging subject matter in urban schools? Inquiry-based instruction and successful inquiry learning and teaching in project-based science (PBS) were ...
Supporting Science Teacher Learning: The Role of Educative Curriculum Materials
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-08)
A BIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF MORAL SYSTEMS
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1985-03)
Moral systems are described as systems of indirect reciprocity, existing because of histories of conflicts of interest and arising as outcomes of the complexity of social interactions in groups of long-lived individuals ...
Re‐conceptualization of scientific literacy in South Korea for the 21st century
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2011-08)
As the context of human life expands from personal to global, a new vision of scientific literacy is needed. Based on a synthesis of the literature and the findings of an online survey of South Korean and US secondary ...