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University Science and Mathematics Education in Transition

University Science and Mathematics Education in Transition

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General EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 144193541X
ISBN13: 9781441935410
Publisher: Springer
Published: Oct 18 2010
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Introduction.- Section 1: Changes in the Teaching-Learning Process.- From Assenting to Asserting: Stimulating Learners to Take Initiative.- Problem-Oriented and Project-Organized University Studies: How to Develop Mathematical Modelling Competency.- A Reflective Science Education Practice: Why, What and How?.- The Development of a New Chemistry Laboratory Course.- Assessment as a Contract-Like Relationship in Undergraduate Mathematics Education.- Section 2: Changes in academic cultures.- Cultural Models of Gender in Sciences: Women in Physics from a Cultural-Psychological Magnifying Glass.- There Is More to Mathematics than What I Imagined! Tensions in a Mathematics Education Course for Mathematics Students.- The Gap Between University and the Workplace: Examples from Graphing in Science.- The Culture of Mathematics and the Mathematical Culture.- Science and Mathematics Teachers' Views on 'Good' Teaching.- Section 3: Structural Changes Impacting Science and Mathematics Education.- Conceptions of Universities as Organizations and Changes in Science and Mathematics Education.- Reform of University Studies: Does the Painting Get Better When You Change the Size of the Frame?.- The Role and Means for Tertiary Didactics in a Faculty of Science.- PBL as an International Organizational Challenge.- Section 4: Changes in the View of Science and Mathematics.- Science Education in Motion.- Modernity, Science, and Democracy.- Beyond the Assumptions of Modernity in University Science and Mathematics Education.

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