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Ramnarain, Umesh – Research in Science Education, 2023
Inquiry-based science education has been advocated as a goal in the South African school science curriculum. Despite this goal, the implementation of inquiry in this country has been largely fragmented due to contextual factors that exert an influence on its traction in the classroom. This phenomenologically orientated study reports on the…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Education, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
Khoza, Hlologelo Climant; Msimanga, Audrey – Research in Science Education, 2022
There are two key categories of moves that drive interaction in science classrooms; initiating moves and rejoinders. Closed-ended initiating questions have always been associated with low student engagement and open-ended initiating questions with prolonged interaction in science classroom. In this paper, we report on a qualitative case study…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Classroom Communication, Foreign Countries, Science Teachers
Lehesvuori, Sami; Ramnarain, Umesh; Viiri, Jouni – Research in Science Education, 2018
There is an ongoing reform towards more inquiry-based teaching in school curriculum policy in South Africa. Reform towards more inquiry-based approaches is already integrated in pre-service teacher education programmes. As inquiry-based approaches have been gaining momentum worldwide, there is an increasing concern that dialogic interaction in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Teaching Methods, Active Learning
Mavhunga, Elizabeth; Rollnick, Marissa – Research in Science Education, 2016
In science education, learner-centred classroom practices are widely accepted as desirable and are associated with responsive and reformed kinds of teacher beliefs. They are further associated with high-quality Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK). Topic-Specific Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TSPCK), a version of PCK defined at topic level, is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
Ramnarain, Umesh; Schuster, David – Research in Science Education, 2014
In recent years, inquiry-based science instruction has become widely advocated in science education standards in many countries and, hence, in teacher preparation programmes. Nevertheless, in practice, one finds a wide variety of science instructional approaches. In South Africa, as in many countries, there is also a great disparity in school…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods