University Science and Mathematics Education in Transition

By Ole Skovsmose

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144193541X
• ISBN13: 9781441935410
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"