Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education

Education 220

Spring 2002

Professor Victor Donnay and Deborah Pomeroy

Reading List:

American Association for the Advancement of Science. Science for All Americans. Project 2061. Oxford University Press N.Y. 1990 (Chapter 1 only)

Victor, E. Kellough, R.D. Science for the Elementary and Middle School. 8th Edition. Merrill. N.J. 1997. (a few excerpts from chapter 3)

Watson, B, Konicek, R. Teaching for Conceptual Change: Confronting Children's Experience. Phi Delta Kappan. May 1990 pp. 680 - 685 (the whole article)

Duckworth, E. The Having of Wonderful Ideas and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning. 2nd Edition. Teachers College Press. N.Y. 1996 (chapters 1,5,7)

Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., Cocking, R.R. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School. National Academy Press. Washington, D.C. 1999 (the executive summaries of each chapter)

Meier, D. The Power of Their Ideas. Beacon Press. Boston (chapter 9)

The Glenn Commission Report:. www.ed.gov/americacounts/glenn