Fostering Science Teaching and Learning for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Beyond - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1668469324 ISBN 13: 9781668469323

Publisher: IGI Global, 2023

Synopsis

The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, is characterized by the exponential pace of technology developments covering wide-ranging fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, 3D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, energy storage, and quantum computing. It is anticipated that it will result in a future that is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous; this has led to a widespread call for the development of 21st-century skills and competencies among the young, particularly in the science field.

Fostering Science Teaching and Learning for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Beyond considers how we prepare prospective science teachers for the fourth industrial revolution; how we create teacher education curricula that will help pre-service science teachers to be sufficiently versatile in the rapidly changing world; and which key perspectives, processes, methods, and tools have especially promising payoffs in the lives of pre-service science teachers. Covering key topics such as virtual reality, teacher preparation, and science classrooms, this premier reference source is ideal for policymakers, administrators, scholars, researchers, academicians, instructors, and students.

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About the Authors

Garima Bansal is an educational researcher. Her research interests lay in formative assessment, pedagogic and curricular processes in science and mathematics classrooms. She has been contributing in school and university education, and has also served development sector in education.

Umesh Ramnarain research focus is mainly inquiry-based learning. His research is on inquiry teaching and learning, and its uptake in South African classrooms characterized by diversity and complexity in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic or environmental factors. The knowledge base he has built has important implications at both the national and international levels, especially in terms of inquiry teaching in underprivileged schools.

Edition details

• Publisher: IGI Global
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1668469324
• ISBN 13: 9781668469323
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Bansal Garima, Ramnarain Umesh