TY - JOUR
T1 - What account of science shall we give? A case study of scientists teaching first-year university subjects
AU - Smith, Dorothy Veronica
AU - Mulhall, Pamela Joy
AU - Gunstone, Richard Francis
AU - Hart, Christina Eugene
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This article presents a case study of four academic scientists. These academics teach in the first year
of a Bachelor of Science degree at a large research-focused Australian university that has demanded
and supported a greater focus on undergraduate learning. Taken as a whole, the accounts of science
that the first-year academics in this case study gave, and which they are presenting to their students,
challenge the images of science and scientists typically presented in school science curricula. Using
Roberts? heuristic of Vision 1 and Vision 2 for the broad purposes of learning science, we consider
various accounts given of science by these academic scientists and consider how science might
appear to a student who takes all four of their subjects.
AB - This article presents a case study of four academic scientists. These academics teach in the first year
of a Bachelor of Science degree at a large research-focused Australian university that has demanded
and supported a greater focus on undergraduate learning. Taken as a whole, the accounts of science
that the first-year academics in this case study gave, and which they are presenting to their students,
challenge the images of science and scientists typically presented in school science curricula. Using
Roberts? heuristic of Vision 1 and Vision 2 for the broad purposes of learning science, we consider
various accounts given of science by these academic scientists and consider how science might
appear to a student who takes all four of their subjects.
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/doi/pdf/10.1080/09500693.2015.1042942
U2 - 10.1080/09500693.2015.1042942
DO - 10.1080/09500693.2015.1042942
M3 - Article
VL - 37
SP - 1504
EP - 1523
JO - International Journal of Science Education
JF - International Journal of Science Education
SN - 0950-0693
IS - 9
ER -