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Designing Communities (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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Designing Communities (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
Series: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education, 3
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The study described in this book arose in the contextof a
three-year collective effort to bring about change in science
teaching at Mountain Elementary School. 1 This opportunity emerged
after I contacted the school with the idea to help teachers
implement student-centered science teaching. At the same time, the
teachers collectively had come to realize that their science
teaching was not as exciting to children as it could be. They had
recognized their own teaching as textbook-based with little use of
the "hands-on" approaches prescribed by the provincial curriculum.
At this point, the teachers and I decided that a joint project
would serve our mutual goals: they wanted assistance in changing
from textbook-based approaches to student-centered activities; I
wanted to collect data on learning in student-centered knowledge
producing classroom communities. I brought to this school my new
understandings about classroom communi ties from several earlier
studies conducted in a private high school (e. g., Roth &
Bowen, 1995; Roth & Roychoudhury, 1992). I wanted to help
teachers create science learning environments in which children
took charge of their learning, where children learned from more
competent others by participating with them in ongoing activities,
and teachers were responsible for setting up and maintaining a
classroom community rather than for dissem inating information.
After I had completed the data collection for the present study, I
watched a documentary about an elementary school in the small
French village of Moussac (Envoye Special, TV5, September 14,
1994)."
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