Crossing Boundaries in Science Teacher Education

Foreword and Contents

1 New Directions in Science Education and the Culture of the School – The CROSSNET Project as a Transnational Framework for Research

1 The CROSSNET project as a framework for transnational research

2 CROSSNET as an intervention into local practices – solving the problem of transnational comparisons

3 Science education: A broadening perspective for curriculum and practice

4 Curriculum innovation and communities of practice

5 Crossing boundaries as a complex interaction of systems of activity over time

6 Mediating tools and their role in change

7 Boundary crossing and the elements of activity

8 Boundary crossing and expansive learning: Concluding comments

2 Innovation in the Science Curriculum: The Intersection of School Practice and Research

1 The need for new models of change in curriculum reform: The present situation

2 Theoretical background of boundary crossing

3 Crossing boundaries: A complex process in curriculum innovation

4 Creating settings for discourse across boundaries: The Curriculum Workshop as one example

3 CROSSNET in Practice: An Analysis of Teacher Response

1 Goals of the study, theoretical background

and research questions

2 Research approach and methods

3 Research findings – CROSSNET in action

4 Summary and discussion

4 Crossing Boundaries Through School-Based Collaboration for Innovative Science Teaching

1 Introduction

2 Implementation and dissemination of a context-oriented approach (Case study 1)

3 Development of interdisciplinary lesson sequences and materials for conducting class excursions to the island of Föhr (Case study 2)

4 Implementing a partnership between a school and an enterprise (Case study 3)

5 School-based teacher training as a tool to implement a standards-based and integrated syllabus (Case study 4)

6 Improving physics teaching by cooperation with

teachers from other science subjects (Case study 5)

7 Summary and conclusions

5 Enhancing Language Awareness in Science Education by Means of Content and Language Integrated Learning

1 Content and Language Integrated Learning in science education

2 The CROSSNET intervention

3 Methods and outcome

4 Conclusions

6 School-Based In-Service Teacher Education as a Way of Promoting Integrated Teaching and Learning of Science Subjects

1 Introduction

2 Aim of the study

3 Description of the schools participating in the project

4 Research method

5 Procedure and results

6 Conclusions

7 Facing Barriers in Teaching Chemical Equilibrium – Approaches Based on the Use of ICT

1 Introduction / background

2 Presenting the project

3 The case study

4 Outputs and recommendations

8 Reform in Biology Education: Teachers and searchers in a Process of Negotiation

1 Introduction

2 Improving the quality of biology instruction

3 Findings

9 Crossing Boundaries by Changing the Culture of Teaching

1 Introduction

2 The project design

3 Boundary Crossings and a key question

4 Data collection

5 Data analysis

6 Data interpretation

7 Personal reflection

10 Innovations in Science Education Through School

University Partnership

1 Introduction

2 Background and cultural context

3 An emerging framework for the study

4 Research methodology

5 Findings from CROSSNET Ireland

6 Discussion and future directions