Quality Teaching in Primary Science Education Cross-cultural Perspec
This edited volume explores how primary school teachers create rich opportunities for science learning, higher order thinking and reasoning, and how the teaching of science in Australia, Germany and Taiwan is culturally framed. It draws from the
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Quality Teaching in Primary Science Education
Mark W. Hackling • Jörg Ramseger Hsiao-Lan Sharon Chen Editors
Quality Teaching in Primary Science Education Cross-cultural Perspectives
Editors Mark W. Hackling School of Education Edith Cowan University Perth, Australia Hsiao-Lan Sharon Chen Department of Education National Taiwan Normal University Taipei, Taiwan
Jörg Ramseger Center for Research in Primary Education (Arbeitsstelle Bildungsforschung Primarstufe) Freie Universität Berlin Berlin, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-44381-2 ISBN 978-3-319-44383-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-44383-6
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EQUALPRIME: A Foreword: In Celebration of the Cross-Country Researcher
A foreword is not an introduction. An introduction has certain obligatory constraints regarding what must be said. A foreword has almost none. You can be forward in a foreword – you can push and peer and project and speculate. Not an opportunity to be missed. I thank the editors and the wonderful EQUALPRIME team for this opportunity. The education community has a need for new approaches to research. Student mobility and global communication pose challenges for existing insularities of curriculum, of pedagogy and of research methodology. We need studies with breadth of vision. We need research with the capacity to destabilise assumptions. We need to compare; but, more importantly, we need to connect. We need research that connects the global to the local, the international to the school down the road and the teacher in Taipei to the teachers in Berlin and Melbourne. Connection is the key, but how to connect? The EQUALPRIME project succeeds in not only
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