Search results for author:"Wayne Melville"
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Science Education and Student Autonomy
Wayne Melville; Donald Kerr; Geeta Verma; Todd Campbell
Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Vol. 18, No. 2 (2018) pp. 87–97
In this article, we examine how the concept of autonomy may be construed as a foundational value which underpins students' coherent sensemaking of how the physical world operates. Autonomy and science both require students to comprehend and assess...
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The Departmental Script as an Ongoing Conversation into the Phronesis of Teaching Science as Inquiry
Wayne Melville; Todd Campbell; Xavier Fazio; Anthony Bartley
Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 21, No. 6 (December 2012) pp. 835–850
This article investigates the extent to which a science department script supports the teaching and learning of science as inquiry and how this script is translated into individual teachers' classrooms. This study was completed at one school in...