Science as Active Inquiry: A Teacher’s Guide to the Development of Effective Science Teaching, 3rd Edition - Hardcover

Selma Wassermann; J. W. George Ivany

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 147586485X ISBN 13: 9781475864854

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022

Synopsis

This new text lays out the rationale for teaching science as active inquiry and presents a “teaching for thinking” theoretical framework that is rooted in extensive field research and classroom practice. This introductory section is followed with information and guidelines for how teachers may organize their science programs with a focus on hands-on student involvement in active inquiry. The last section includes 60 “sciencing” activities that are grouped according to teachers’ expressed concerns about their “messiness.”
With the current emphasis on distance learning, the use of IT as instructional tools and more child-centered practices, this new book should serve as a valuable resource for opening teachers’ and students’ minds to the values of teaching science in the ways in which scientists actually do their work. More than theory, the book offers practical and clear help to teachers to want to pursue teaching science as an investigative process.

About this title

About the Authors

Selma Wassermann is Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Author of more than 30 books, she is the recipient of the University Excellence in Teaching Award.

J. W. George Ivany is President emeritus of the University of Saskatchewan and an author of texts and research papers on science teaching.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147586485X
• ISBN 13: 9781475864854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 318