Science Education Wisdom Resources

Source

Wisdom

Lev Vygotsky

Goldstein , AERJ 36(3): 647-673 (1999)

  ZPD

Nel Noddings

Goldstein , AERJ 36(3): 647-673 (1999)

  Caring

Francis Bacon

Three Thousand Years of Educational Wisdom, edited by Robert Ulich, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1982, p. 305

  Nature

Observation

Karl Popper

http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=0205F000

  Scientific verification

Charles Darwin  

The Great Thoughts Compiled by George Seldes, Ballantine Books, New York (1985) p. 100

Teaching Science for Understanding p. 308

  Survival of the fittest

Natural selection

Jean Piaget

Teaching Science for Understanding p. 36 and                  Mortimer and Machado, ScEd 84:429-444 (2000)

  Cognitive Conflict

Noam Chomsky

http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761571656

http://mitpress.mit.edu/chomskydisc/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=00003d

 

Common sense 

How and Why questions

Language

Thomas Kuhn

Teaching Science for Understanding p. 43-44

  Paradigm shifts

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi  

Flow, Harper Perennial, New York, 1990

 

  Optimal experience

Flow

John Dewey    

Three Thousand Years of Educational Wisdom, edited by Robert Ulich, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1982, p. 615 

  American Democracy

Social values of knowledge

Benjamin Bloom

 

  Bloom's Taxonomy

Robert Karplus

Science Teaching and the Development of Reasoning, by Karplus, Lawson, Wollman, Appel, Bernoff, Howe, Rusch, and Sullivan, Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, CA, (1977)

 

  The Learning Cycle

Self-regulation

Merlin C. Wittrock

 

Generative  Teaching, Discrepant events

Eleanor Duckworth  

 

  Wonderful Ideas

Rosalind Driver  

ScEd 84: 287-312 (2000)

 

  Argument

Grant Wiggins

  Understanding by Design

  Rubrics for understanding

Elizabeth Fennema

 

Math attitudes

Jeannie Oakes

 

  Stereotypes

Mary Budd Rowe  

Science and Children 34(1): 35-37 (1996) and JRST 30(4):401-426 (1993)

Wait time 

Mary Atwater  

JRST 35(4):375-377 (1998) and JRST 33(8):821-837 (1996)

 

Equity and social constructivism

Seymour Pappert

 

  Technology for empowerment

Barbara Means

 

  Assessment for Learning

Catherine Nesbit

 

Teacher Leaders

 

Dr. Nancy J. Pelaez, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Fullerton
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Revised: January 26, 2001.