Overview
- Autoethnography of the author's own science classroom
- Applying a sociocultural lens on college science teaching
- Including a metalogue with a biochemistry colleague
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
One aim of Gilmer’s captivating text on university pedagogy is to show that biochemistry (or any science) does not consist solely of facts to be learned, but is a way of thinking about the world. Her purpose, both in this book and in her classroom, is to make her students into critical thinkers rather than passive learners. The chapters cast a critical eye over research into enhanced education techniques such as collaborative learning. Gilmer describes the action research she conducted in her own biochemistry undergraduate classroom into ways of improving the learning environment. She offers various perspectives on the make-up of her classroom, including an analysis of ethnographic data.
The tools Gilmer employs as she hones her teaching skills include collaborative learning and technology. She views the classroom through various theoretical perspectives: social constructivism, cultural-historical activity theory, and a theory that involves the dialectic between the structure of the learning environment and the agency of the learners (a group among whom she includes herself). She provides a wealth of autobiographical detail as well as the results of her action research, which followed up on its original subjects after an interval of 11 years, to see what impact her course had on their professional growth. Above all, this volume is proof of what can be achieved in education when teachers are as interested in the process of learning as they are in their subject itself.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transforming University Biochemistry Teaching Using Collaborative Learning and Technology
Book Subtitle: Ready, Set, Action Research!
Authors: Penny J. Gilmer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4981-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4980-4Published: 08 April 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9622-5Published: 31 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4981-1Published: 10 March 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 208
Topics: Education, general, Science Education