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Teaching Science in Out-of-School Settings

Pedagogies for Effective Learning

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Junqing Zhai

    1. College of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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  • Equips readers to handle complex issues in teaching science in informal outdoor settings, particularly in botanic gardens

  • Successfully addresses open problems in the analysis and structure of informal science educators’ pedagogical practices

  • Provides pedagogies that may be adapted by other informal science educators for their own work

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Junqing Zhai
    Pages 1-6

  3. Botanic Gardens as Teaching and Learning Environments

    • Junqing Zhai
    Pages 7-16

  4. A Sociocultural Perspective of Teaching and Learning in Formal and Informal Science Settings

    • Junqing Zhai
    Pages 17-35

  5. Research Design and Methodologies

    • Junqing Zhai
    Pages 37-62

  6. Multiple Perspectives of Botanic Garden Educators’ Pedagogical Practices

    • Junqing Zhai
    Pages 63-115

  7. The Pedagogical Behaviours of Botanic Garden Educators

    • Junqing Zhai
    Pages 117-150

  8. Discussion, Reflections and Implications

    • Junqing Zhai
    Pages 151-173

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 175-176
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About this book

This book explores pedagogical approaches used by informal science educators and botanic garden educators in particular, when teaching science to visiting students (7-12 years old). More specifically, it draws on the sociocultural perspective of learning, and highlights the importance of discourse in learning processes. It examines the interactions between four botanic garden educators (BGEs) and their students, focusing on how the students’ contributions to the talk are followed up on by the BGEs. Moreover, it includes an investigation into which kinds of teaching behaviours on the part of BGEs can best support learning.

Authors and Affiliations

  • College of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Junqing Zhai

About the author

Dr. Junqing Zhai is an assistant professor at the Department of Education, Zhejiang University, China. He received his Ph.D. from King’s College London, UK. His doctoral thesis focused on the pedagogical practices of professional botanic garden educators when communicating plant-based science to visiting children. From 2011-2014, Junqing worked as a research fellow at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, during which he investigated the inquiry-based learning environment of Singaporean primary science classrooms.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Teaching Science in Out-of-School Settings

  • Book Subtitle: Pedagogies for Effective Learning

  • Authors: Junqing Zhai

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-591-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-590-7Published: 21 September 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1250-1Published: 23 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-591-4Published: 03 September 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 176

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Science Education

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