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Part of the book series: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education (CTISE, volume 22)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Students’ Learning
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Front Matter
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Teachers’ Professional Development
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
How can educators bridge the gap between "big" ideas about teaching students to think and educational practice? This book addresses this question by a unique combination of theory, field experience and elaborate educational research. Its basic idea is to look at science instruction with regard to two sets of explicit goals: one set refers to teaching science concepts and the second set refers to teaching higher order thinking.
This book tells about how thinking can be taught not only in the rare and unique conditions that are so typical of affluent experimental educational projects but also in the less privileged but much more common conditions of educational practice that most schools have to endure. It provides empirical evidence showing that students from all academic levels actually improve their thinking and their scientific knowledge following the thinking curricula, and discusses specific means for teaching higher order thinking to students with low academic achievements. The second part of the book addresses issues that pertain to teachers' professional development and to their knowledge and beliefs regarding the teaching of higher order thinking.
This book is intended for a very large audience: researchers (including graduate students), curricular designers, practicing and pre-service teachers, college students, teacher educators and those interested in educational reform. Although the book is primarily about the development of thinking in science classrooms, most of it chapters may be of interest to educators from all disciplines.
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Anat Zohar
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Higher Order Thinking in Science Classrooms: Students’ Learning and Teachers’ Professional Development
Authors: Anat Zohar
Series Title: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-1854-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1852-7Published: 29 February 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1853-4Published: 29 February 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-1854-1Published: 31 January 2004
Series ISSN: 1878-0482
Series E-ISSN: 1878-0784
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 244
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Education, general, Learning & Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education, Science Education, Curriculum Studies