UPDATE: The Texas Board of Education approved the science standards BUT teachers will be required to have students "scrutinize" all sides of the theories. Read more here for more details. We are in the Round Top Texas area for two weeks participating in a very large...
Education about, in, and for the environment represent three different paradigms useful in helping us view environmental education and environmental science programs and activities. Based on research by Rachel Michel (1996), these three paradigms can briefly be...
Many, many years ago I developed a book while being a writer for the Individualized Science Instructional System (ISIS) which was entitled Touch the Earth. It was a geology mini-course, part of a large collection of earth, life, and physical science mini-courses for...
Informal learning as a paradigm for classroom learning suggests that learning is holistic, and is steeped in inclusiveness and connectedness. As I suggested yesterday, John Dewey wrote about the importance of an "experiential education" more than 100 years ago, and...
I am watching the countdown of STS 119, the October 15, 2009 launch of the Space Shuttle, Discovery. I started this post at T minus 6 minutes and counting, and continued watching until Discovery reached orbit. It's always amazing whenever we launch the Space Shuttle....
I could have titled this "Is science teaching political?: A Humanistic Question." In an article (Scientific literacy: A Freirean perspective as a radical view of humanistic science education) recently published in Science Education, Wildson L.P. dos Santos, of the...
