Abstract
"How do we teach argumentation in the new Australian Curriculum?" Secondary Science Teachers' Experiences in in Argumentation-based Professional Development Program
Annual Australasian Science Education Research Association Conference (ASERA), 43rd (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 28-Jun-2012–30-Jun-2012)
2012
Abstract
The implementation of the Australian Curriculum: Science across the compulsory years of schooling (F-10) in the majority of Australian states this year requires science teachers to address the teaching of scientific argumentation in their classrooms. To attend to this challenge, we conducted an argumentation professional development program with practicing secondary science teachers, who possessed a range of teaching experience. Examples of the pedagogical activities implemented in the program will be outlined in this presentation, in addition to a discussion of five teachers' experiences of the program sourced from pre- and post-intervention interviews. Shifts in participants' views of argumentation, participants' perceived implementation of argumentation, and barriers to the successful implementation of argumentation will also be discussed.
Details
- Title
- "How do we teach argumentation in the new Australian Curriculum?" Secondary Science Teachers' Experiences in in Argumentation-based Professional Development Program
- Authors
- C McDonald (Author) - Griffith UniversityDeborah Heck (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
- Conference details
- Annual Australasian Science Education Research Association Conference (ASERA), 43rd (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 28-Jun-2012–30-Jun-2012)
- Publisher
- Australasian Science Education Research Association
- Date published
- 2012
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education - Legacy; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450254402621
- Output Type
- Abstract
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