Educating for sustainability : An innovative interactive CD and internet resource
- Authors: Kentish, Barry , Darby, Linda
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Teaching Science Vol. 51, no. 3 (2005), p. 30-33
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- Description: There is concern that interest in environmental issues is declingin, particularly among young people.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003001094
Perceptions of engineering from female, secondary college students in regional Victoria
- Authors: Darby, Linda , Hall, Stephen , Dowling, Kim , Kentish, Barry
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Engineering Education for a Sustainable Future 2003, Melbourne : 29th September - 1st October, 2003
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- Description: Survey and focus group interviews with female students in regional Victoria resulted in identification of four perceived barriers that influence them to exclude engineering as a career choice. These barriers were identified as a lack of interest in the perceived image, a lack of knowledge, a traditionally male-dominated industry, and limited recognisable role models. This paper reports on what Year 10 females are saying about the barriers and, consequently, how engineering can be promoted to overcome these barriers.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000550
Science students' perceptions of engaging pedagogy
- Authors: Darby, Linda
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Research in Science Education Vol. 35, no. 4 (2005), p. 425-445
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- Description: During their years of schooling, students develop perceptions about learning and teaching, including the ways in which teachers impact on their learning experiences. This paper presents student perceptions of teacher pedagogy as interpreted from a study focusing on students' experience of Year 7 science. A single science class of 11 to 12 year old students and their teacher were monitored for the whole school year, employing participant observation, and interviews with focus groups of students, their teacher and other key members of the school. Analysis focused on how students perceived the role of the teacher's pedagogy in constructing a learning environment that they considered conducive to engagement with science learning. Two areas of the teacher's pedagogy are explored from the student perspective of how these affect their learning: instructional pedagogy and relational pedagogy. Instructional pedagogy captures the way the instructional dialogue developed by the teacher drew the students into the learning process and enabled them to "understand" science. How the teacher developed a relationship with the students is captured as relational pedagogy, where students said that they learned better when teachers were passionate in their approach to teaching, provided a supportive learning environment and made them feel comfortable. The ways in which the findings support the direction for the middle years and science education are considered. © Springer 2005.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003001317
Students' perceptions of learning science : the light and pedagogy of a social classroom / Linda Darby
- Authors: Darby, Linda
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: "This study investigated the perceptions and expectations of students in a Year 7 science class in an attempt to elicit and make sense of what constitutes a learning environment conducive to engagement with science learning, and what role the teacher's pedagogy might play in the development."
- Description: Master of Education