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Direct linkBrotman, Jennie S.; Mensah, Felicia Moore; Lesko, Nancy – Science Education, 2011
Science education researchers increasingly focus on the use of controversial science topics in the classroom to prepare students to make personal and societal decisions about these issues. However, researchers infrequently investigate the diverse ways in which students learn about controversial science topics outside the classroom, and how these…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Science and Society, High School Students, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Meyer, Helen – Science Education, 2004
This study presents comparative case studies of preservice and first-year teachers' and expert teachers' conceptions of the concept of prior knowledge. Kelly's ("The Psychology of Personal Construct", New York: W. W. Norton, 1955) theory of personal constructs as discussed by Akerson, Flick, and Lederman ("Journal of Research in…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Teaching Methods, Urban Schools, Constructivism (Learning)
