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Prain, Vaughan; Xu, Lihua; Speldewinde, Christopher – Research in Science Education, 2023
There is a long tradition of teaching science through inquiry, with broad agreement about the form it should take. Students should investigate researchable questions; gather and analyse data; and develop and represent evidence-based claims. Authoritative teacher or textbook representations are generally used to guide this learning (Buckley &…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
Prain, Vaughan; Tytler, Russell – Research in Science Education, 2022
There is growing interest in the construct of "transduction", first introduced by (Kress, Cope and Kalantzis (eds), Multiliteracies: Literacy learning and the design of social futures pp.153-161, Routledge, 2000), p. 159) to name how meanings in one mode are remade in another. Science educators now broadly agree that students need to…
Descriptors: Science Education, Multiple Literacies, Science Process Skills, Semiotics
Tytler, Russell; Prain, Vaughan; Hannigan, Shelley – Research in Science Education, 2022
While the multimodal nature of the languages of science is now broadly recognised, the role of affect and aesthetics in these languages, and the potential for this aesthetic focus to add to these languages, has tended to be ignored. Research into these languages has mainly focused on a codification of their functions, an approach to which…
Descriptors: Science Education, Aesthetics, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Tytler, Russell; Prain, Vaughan; Hobbs, Linda – Research in Science Education, 2021
Despite growing advocacy of interdisciplinary approaches to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), there are persistent concerns about the practical and principled epistemic bases on which this can be justified as a mainstream curricular practice. A major issue concerns the nature of interrelations between the STEM disciplines in…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, STEM Education, Models, Foreign Countries
Waldrip, Bruce; Prain, Vaughan; Carolan, Jim – Research in Science Education, 2010
There is growing research interest in both the challenges and opportunities learners face in trying to represent scientific understanding, processes and reasoning. These challenges are increasingly well understood by researchers, including integrating verbal, visual and mathematical modes in science discourse, and making strong conceptual links…
Descriptors: Science Education, Secondary School Science, Educational Improvement, Science Instruction
Tytler, Russell; Prain, Vaughan; Peterson, Suzanne – Research in Science Education, 2007
This study draws on recent research on the central role of representation in learning. While there has been considerable research on students' understanding of evaporation, the representational issues entailed in this understanding have not been investigated in depth. The study explored students' engagement with evaporation phenomena through…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction, Case Studies
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Hand, Brian; Prain, Vaughan; Wallace, Carolyn – Research in Science Education, 2002
Reports on two inter-related studies that examined the use of non-traditional writing strategies within secondary school science classrooms. The first study involved Year 10 students who incorporated one letter writing experience into the learning sequence when studying genetics. The second study was with Year 9 students who used both a…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Science Education, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods