Overview
- Considers future possibilities for science learning from the perspective of learners
- Argues for 21st century advances in science to be reflected in what is learned in school science
- Discusses the impact of ICT on science learning and teaching?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- 21st century science
- ICTs and informal science learning
- emerging sciences
- future science
- immersive science education
- learning science
- new aims for science learning
- science concepts
- science curriculum
- science education
- science teachers and learning
- student engagement
- student motivation
- student participation
- student voice
- teaching science
- technology to learn science
- learning and instruction
About this book
This volume considers the future of science learning - what is being learned and how it is being learned - in formal and informal contexts for science education. To do this, the book explores major contemporary shifts in the forms of science that could or should be learned in the next 20 years, what forms of learning of that science should occur, and how that learning happens, including from the perspective of learners. In particular, this volume addresses shifts in the forms of science that are researched and taught post-school – emerging sciences, new sciences that are new integrations, “futures science”, and increases in the complexity and multidisciplinarity of science, including a multidisciplinarity that embraces ways of knowing beyond science. A central aspect of this in terms of the future of learning science is the urgent need to engage students, including their non-cognitive, affective dimensions, both for an educated citizenry and for a productive response to the ubiquitous concerns about future demand for science-based professionals. Another central issue is the actual impact of ICT on science learning and teaching, including shifts in how students use mobile technology to learn science.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Future in Learning Science: What’s in it for the Learner?
Editors: Deborah Corrigan, Cathy Buntting, Justin Dillon, Alister Jones, Richard Gunstone
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16543-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16542-4Published: 11 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35208-4Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16543-1Published: 01 September 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 299
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science Education, Learning & Instruction