Quality Teaching in Primary Science Education: Cross-cultural Perspectives

Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- Figures and Tables.- Contributing Authors.- SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE RESEARCH PROJECT.- Chapter 1 An Overview of the EQUALPRIME Project, its History and Research Design, Jörg Ramseger and Gisela Romain.- Chapter 2 Social and Cultural Factors Framing the Teaching and Learning of Primary Science in Australia, Germany and Taiwan, Mark W Hackling, Hsiao-Lan Sharon Chen and Gisela Romain.- SECTION 2: CASE STUDY ANALYSES.- Chapter 3 Physical Learning Environments for Science Education: An Ethnographic Field Study of Primary Classrooms in Australia, Germany and Taiwan, Peter Hubber and Jörg Ramseger.- Chapter 4 Variation in Whole Class, Small Group and Individual Student Work Within and Across Cultures, Mark W Hackling, George Aranda and Ines Freitag-Amtmann.- Chapter 5 Inquiry Teaching and Learning: Forms, Approaches, and Embedded Views Within and Across Cultures, Hsiao-Lan Sharon Chen and Russell Tytler.- Chapter 6 Teachers from diverse cultural settings orchestrating classroom discourse, Russell Tytler, George Aranda and Ines Freitag-Amtmann.- Chapter 7 Reasoning Through Representations, Russell Tytler, Karen Murcia, Chao-Ti Hsiung and Jörg Ramseger.- Chapter 8 Embodied Strategies in the Teaching and Learning of Science, Khadeeja Ibrahim-Didi, Mark W Hackling, Jörg Ramseger and Barbara Sherriff.- SECTION 3: META-REFLECTIONS ON TEACHING AND LEARNING, AND CROSS-CULTURAL CLASSROOM RESEARCH.- Chapter 9 Reflections on Reasoning, Russell Tytler.- Chapter 10 Reflections on Quality Teaching in Primary Science Classrooms in Diverse Cultural Settings, Gail Chittleborough, Jörg Ramseger, Chao-Ti Hsiung, Peter Hubber and Russell Tytler.- Chapter 11 Reflections on Video-based, Cross-cultural Classroom Research Methodologies, Mark W Hackling, Gisela Romain and George Aranda.- SECTION 4: IMPLICATIONS.- Chapter 12 Implications for Practice and Teacher Education, Russell Tytler, Jörg Ramseger, Peter Hubber and Ines Freitag-Amtmann.- Chapter 13 Implications for Cross-cultural Comparative Studies of Teaching and Learning, Hsiao-Lan Sharon Chen and Pei-Tseng Jenny Hsieh.