Looking for leveraging : teacher utilization of a residential science camp to enhance their capacity to teach science
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Abstract This study investigated how teachers leverage a multi-day, residential, environmental education program to expand their capacity to teach science through creation of pedagogical links between the classroom and the program. The notion of leveraging was characterized by the presence of identifiable teaching and learning goals constructed by the teacher; the creation of links that supported embedding of the program into a deliberate, purposeful sequence of classroom curriculum; and the creation of links under a subject-matter based conceptual umbrella. Seven case studies were performed that examined the school environment, influences on the teacher, and goals articulated by teachers for the program. Pedagogical links created by the teacher between the program and the classroom were analyzed to determine the teachers' motivations and whether the links reflected the characteristics of leveraging. A cross-case analysis was performed to detect trends in teacher practice. Only one out of seven cases exhibited the three characteristics of leveraging and analysis showed that this teachers' practice did expand his capacity to teach science. Influences that appeared to positively impact leveraging practice included teacher autonomy, academic training in science, and willingness to adopt the program curriculum as critical to his student learning goals, and to adapt the program to meet his teaching goals. The role of the program provider is also discussed as well as the location of the program within an intersection of informal and formal education.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Copyright date | 2011 |
| Publication date | 2010, c2011; 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Coe, Lizabeth Kathryn |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Education. |
| Primary advisor | Osborne, Jonathan |
| Primary advisor | Shavelson, Richard J, 1942- |
| Thesis advisor | Osborne, Jonathan |
| Thesis advisor | Shavelson, Richard J, 1942- |
| Thesis advisor | Ardoin, Nicole M. (Nicole Michele) |
| Advisor | Ardoin, Nicole M. (Nicole Michele) |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Lizabeth Kathryn Coe. |
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| Note | Submitted to the School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2011. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by Lizabeth Kathryn Coe
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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