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Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1504 - 1523 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | International Journal of Science Education |
Volume | 37 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Projects
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Articulate Science: rethinking the school education of prospective scientists
Smith, D. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)) & Gunstone, R. (Chief Investigator (CI))
ARC - Australian Research Council, La Trobe University
3/01/12 → 30/09/17
Project: Research