- Title
- Evaluation of a program designed to build science teaching capacity in rural Australia
- Creator
- Sheehan, Grania; Mosse, Jennifer
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/162088
- Identifier
- vital:12628
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2013v38n1.3
- Identifier
- ISBN:1835-517x
- Abstract
- This article reports on a qualitative evaluation of the Science in Schools program; a suite of science based activities delivered by staff of a regional university campus and designed to provide professional development for science teachers working in non-metropolitan schools in a socioeconomically disadvantaged region of Australia. The research identified a range of issues including: the influence of socioeconomic disadvantage and rurality on teachers' professional learning needs, and the importance of subject specific discourse communities and content knowledge for new and out-of-field teachers. Implications for the design and implementation of school-university partnerships are discussed.
- Publisher
- Social Science Press
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Teacher Education Vol. 38, no. 1 (2013), p. 75-96
- Rights
- Copyright © The Author(s)
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 13 Education; Science education; Rural Australia
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