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  • Culture and Science Education

    Towards More Inclusive Practice

    Edited by Wilton Lodge, Justin Dillon ...
    This edited book, containing 15 chapters from some of the leading figures in the field, aims to bring in voices, communities and perspectives that are not often presented in mainstream science education.Providing an international spread of contributions reflecting the field, includingAustralia, Canada, Chile, China, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK and theUSA, it also includes research in areas ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Essays on Nature and the Philosophy of Environmental Education

    This volume identifies and debates important elements of what would be involved in an education that is truly adequate for the environmental situation that currently confronts us. The chapters in the book present a wide variety of perspectives and raise questions about much mainstream environmental education, particularly the heavy emphasis given to science in understanding environmental problems ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Humour and Environmental Education

    This book illustrates how humour can be a powerful tool for environmental education. Hailing from eight different countries, the authors’ inquiries are grounded in a range of sites of learning and focus on different comedic forms, offering a variety of perspectives on the ways humour features, or could feature, in environmental education.The chapters adopt an array of methodological approaches and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • A Selfish Plan to Change the World

    Finding Big Purpose in Big Problems

    by Justin Dillon ...
    You are exactly what the world needsWhat if your search for meaning could solve the world’s problems? What if everything you are passionate about could save a life or change history? Justin Dillon argues it can, and A Selfish Plan to Change the World shows how.In this paradigm-shifting new book, Dillon--the founder of Slavery Footprint and Made in a Free World--reveals the secret to a life of deep ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • Debates in Science Education

    Edited by Justin Dillon, Mike Watts ...
    Series series Debates in Subject Teaching
    This fully revised second edition of Debates in Science Education explores the major issues that science teachers encounter in teaching their subject, encouraging the reader to make their own informed judgements and argue their point of view with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding.Brand new chapters written by a team of international experts provide fresh insight into topics of central ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Trading Zones in Environmental Education

    Creating Transdisciplinary Dialogue

    Series Book 1 - [Re]thinking Environmental Education
    Environmental educators often adhere to a relatively narrow theoretical paradigm focusing on changing attitudes and knowledge, which are assumed to foster pro-environmental behaviors, which, in turn, leads to better environmental quality. This book takes a different approach to trying to understand how environmental education might influence people, their communities, and the environment. The ... Read more

    $165.29 USD

  • The Future in Learning Science: What’s in it for the Learner?

    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume considers the future of science learning - what is being learned and how it is being learned - in formal and informal contexts for science education. To do this, the book explores major contemporary shifts in the forms of science that could or should be learned in the next 20 years, what forms of learning of that science should occur, and how that learning happens, including from the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Understanding Student Participation and Choice in Science and Technology Education

    Series series Education (R0)
    Drawing on data generated by the EU’s Interests and Recruitment in Science (IRIS) project, this volume examines the issue of young people’s participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. With an especial focus on female participation, the chapters offer analysis deploying varied theoretical frameworks, including sociology, social psychology and gender studies. The ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Towards a Convergence Between Science and Environmental Education

    The selected works of Justin Dillon

    by Justin Dillon ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    In the World Library of Educationalists, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces—extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions—so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers thus are able to follow the themes and strands of their work and see their ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Professional Knowledge Base of Science Teaching

    Series series Education (R0)
    Over the past twenty years, much has been written about the knowledge bases thought necessary to teach science. Shulman has outlined seven knowledge domains needed for teaching, and others, such as Tamir, have proposed somewhat similar domains of knowledge, specifically for science teachers. Aspects of this knowledge have changed because of shifts in curriculum thinking, and the current trends in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Learning To Teach Science

    Activities For Student Teachers And Mentors

    by Justin Dillon ...
    In response to requests by science teachers for guidance on the process of mentoring in schools, this text provides an interactive, activities-based resource. It takes into account the progressive development of skills and competencies, for all those involved in the training of science teachers; pre-service, in-service and quality control. Activities are directly related to classroom and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Addressing Wicked Problems through Science Education

    The Role of Out-of-School Experiences

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book discusses a number of ways in which out-of-school science education can uniquely engage learners with ‘wicked’ global problems such as biodiversity loss and climate change. The idea for the volume originated in discussions among members of the ESERA special interest group on "Science Education in Out-of-School contexts". It emerged from these discussions that out-of-school institutions ... Read more

    $170.09 USD