- Title
- Transforming science teaching and science teacher education through an Australian university-school partnership
- Creator
- Green, Monica; Ma, Hongming
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/167980
- Identifier
- vital:13779
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-1-64113-221-3
- Abstract
- This chapter reports on empirical study that examined the impact of two distinctive university-school partnerships involving two teacher educators, preservice teachers, in-service teachers and their primary-aged students from two regional primary schools. The study took place in Gippsland, Australia and was underpinned by a science education subject embedded in a Bachelor of Education degree that involved the delivery of science lessons by pre-serivce teachers with children in outdoor settings. In asking the question how can a university-school partnership shape and inform science teaching and science teacher education, the chapter draws on a data set of focus group and individual interviews with pre-service and in-service teachers. The chapter contends that university-school partnerships make an important contribution to education, particularly in relation to science teaching and science teacher education. We contend the place-based partnership frameworks will be of interest to those teacher educators and in-service teachers looking to enrich and renew educational practice more broadly, as well as in the science domain.
- Publisher
- Information Age Publishing, Inc.
- Relation
- Making a positive impact in rural places : Change agency in the context of school-university-community collaboration in education Chapter 13 p. 285-309
- Rights
- Copyright © 2018 Information Age Publication Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Science teaching; Teacher education; University-school partnerships; Australia
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