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ERIC Number: EJ637987
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4308
Design, Technology, and Science: Sites for Learning, Resistance, and Social Reproduction in Urban Schools.
Seiler, Gale; Tobin, Kenneth; Sokolic, Joseph
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, v38 n7 p746-67 Sep 2001
Presents a study that took place in an inner-city neighborhood school populated mainly by African American students characterized by poverty. Explores the discourse and practices of students and three co-teachers as a curriculum was enacted to provide opportunities for students to learn about the physics of motion through designing, building, and testing a model car. (Contains 46 references.) (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Design, Educational Technology, Equal Education, Hands on Science, High Schools, Models, Motion, Physics, Poverty, Science Activities, Science Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Model Building
Note: Special section: The Interdependence of Scientific and Technological Literacy.