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ERIC Number: EJ574300
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1090-185X
Creating Opportunities for Preservice and Classroom Teachers To Experience Constructivist Learning in Science: A Collaborative Project in Australia.
Ferry, Brian
Journal of Elementary Science Education, v9 n2 p28-44 1997
Reports on an innovative program that allowed preservice and classroom teachers to have personal experience with a constructivist approach to learning science. Preservice and classroom teachers collaborated to prepare, implement, and evaluate a simple hands-on science-teaching project that focused on learner acquisition of knowledge through active experimentation and interpersonal negotiation. Contains 28 references. (Author/PVD)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperating Teachers, Elementary School Science, Foreign Countries, Hands on Science, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Learning Strategies, Misconceptions, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Education, Teacher Role
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Australia (New South Wales)