Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education: Engineering Design and Science Education : Achieving Science and Technological Literacy Through Engineering Design Practices 44 (2016, Hardcover) download ebook TXT, DOC, FB2
9783319163987 3319163981 In this volume authors address the following question: Given the rapidly changing landscape of science education, including the blurring of boundaries related to when, where, why and who is learning through design and engineering practices, what are the best practices for teaching preservice science teachers how to facilitate and accommodate these activities, assessing learning, designing and developing solutions to ill-structured problems, etc.? A major goal of this book is to help build bridges across diverse research communities in order to foster dialogue and synergies, making particular efforts to bridge the differences between those historically focused on specific aspects of science education and new innovations that can address the next generation standards. The volume features concrete activities, grounded in research, that could be used to unite engineering design and science education in meaningful ways. It also discusses strategies for beginning to break down silos between content areas such as science, mathematics, social studies, language arts, psychology, engineering, etc. and build meaningful cross-cutting connections between research and practice within and across these diverse learning communities., The need for a scientifically literate citizenry, one that is able to think critically and engage productively in the engineering design process, has never been greater. By raising engineering design to the same level as scientific inquiry the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) have signaled their commitment to the integration of engineering design into the fabric of science education. This call has raised many critical questions...How well do these new standards represent what actually engineers do? Where do the deep connections among science and engineering practices lie? To what extent can (or even should) science and engineering practices co-exist in formal and informal educational spaces? Which of the core science concepts are best to leverage in the pursuit of coherent and compelling integration of engineering practices? What science important content may be pushed aside? This book, tackles many of these tough questions head on.All of the contributing authors consider the same core question: Given the rapidly changing landscape of science education, including the elevated status of engineering design, what are the best approaches to the effective integration of the science and engineering practices? They answered with rich descriptions of pioneering approaches, critical insights, and useful practical examples of how embodying a culture of interdisciplinarity and innovation can fuel the development of a scientifically literate citizenry. This collection of work builds traversable bridges across diverse research communities and begins to break down long standing disciplinary silos that have historically often hamstrung well-meaning efforts to bring research and practice from science and engineering together in meaningful and lasting ways. "
9783319163987 3319163981 In this volume authors address the following question: Given the rapidly changing landscape of science education, including the blurring of boundaries related to when, where, why and who is learning through design and engineering practices, what are the best practices for teaching preservice science teachers how to facilitate and accommodate these activities, assessing learning, designing and developing solutions to ill-structured problems, etc.? A major goal of this book is to help build bridges across diverse research communities in order to foster dialogue and synergies, making particular efforts to bridge the differences between those historically focused on specific aspects of science education and new innovations that can address the next generation standards. The volume features concrete activities, grounded in research, that could be used to unite engineering design and science education in meaningful ways. It also discusses strategies for beginning to break down silos between content areas such as science, mathematics, social studies, language arts, psychology, engineering, etc. and build meaningful cross-cutting connections between research and practice within and across these diverse learning communities., The need for a scientifically literate citizenry, one that is able to think critically and engage productively in the engineering design process, has never been greater. By raising engineering design to the same level as scientific inquiry the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) have signaled their commitment to the integration of engineering design into the fabric of science education. This call has raised many critical questions...How well do these new standards represent what actually engineers do? Where do the deep connections among science and engineering practices lie? To what extent can (or even should) science and engineering practices co-exist in formal and informal educational spaces? Which of the core science concepts are best to leverage in the pursuit of coherent and compelling integration of engineering practices? What science important content may be pushed aside? This book, tackles many of these tough questions head on.All of the contributing authors consider the same core question: Given the rapidly changing landscape of science education, including the elevated status of engineering design, what are the best approaches to the effective integration of the science and engineering practices? They answered with rich descriptions of pioneering approaches, critical insights, and useful practical examples of how embodying a culture of interdisciplinarity and innovation can fuel the development of a scientifically literate citizenry. This collection of work builds traversable bridges across diverse research communities and begins to break down long standing disciplinary silos that have historically often hamstrung well-meaning efforts to bring research and practice from science and engineering together in meaningful and lasting ways. "