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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Disrupting Hegemonic Writing Practices in School Science: Contesting the Right Way To Write.
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Hildebrand, Gaell M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1998
Challenges ways in which a positivist view of science has led to hegemonic discourse on writing to learn science and highlights contradictions in this discourse. Argues for pedagogy that draws on critical, feminist, and hegemonic pedagogies and incorporates affective, creative, critical, cognitive, and diverse language practices set within…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Content Area Writing, Critical Theory, Educational Change
Marginalized Discourses and Scientific Literacy.
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Norman, Obed – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1998
Focuses on the marginalized discourses that have arisen to oppose the racism, sexism, and classism espoused and advocated by mainstream science since its institutionalization up until the first half of the 20th century. Contains 39 references. (Author/PVD)
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Cultural Influences, Disadvantaged, Educational Change
Reproductive and Resistant Pedagogies: The Comparative Roles of Collaborative Learning and Feminist Pedagogy in Science Education.
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Mayberry, Maralee – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1998
One dominant approach to reforming science education implements collaborative approaches to learning. Feminist pedagogy is concerned with transforming both how students learn science and the science curriculum that students are expected to learn. Collaborative approaches serve to reproduce the dominant discourse of existing science systems.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Critical Theory, Cultural Pluralism, Epistemology
Reflections on Being Female in School Science: Toward a Praxis of Teaching Science.
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Meyer, Karen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1998
Questions the phenomenon and the implications of being female in school science through girls' and young women's stories interwoven with a narrative from the author, a female researcher in science education. Discusses several directions within teaching that interpret bell hooks' engaged pedagogy which emphasizes a commitment to self-actualization…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Critical Theory, Epistemology, Feminism
Classroom Climate and Science-Related Attitudes of Junior High School Students in Taiwan.
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Lin, Bao-Shan; Crawley, Frank E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1987
Reports on an investigation into the differences in classroom climate and science-related attitudes among junior high school science classes on students in Taiwan. Most of the differences in classroom climate, student attitude, and their interactions were attributed to school location (metropolitan versus rural) rather than student…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Rural Urban Differences
Semantic Networking: The New Kid on the Block.
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Fisher, Kathleen M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1990
Describes the "SemNet" software and some of its uses as an educational and research tool, with emphasis on the similarities and differences between concept mapping and semantic networking. (PR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Structures, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation