Sketching Some Postmodern Alternatives:
Beyond Paradigms and Research Programs as Referents for Science Education
David R. Geelan (2000)
It is about Conceptual Change model again.
- Personal note 1:
Some possible alternative referents for thinking about science learning and teaching draw - by analogy and metaphor -
Polkinghorne (1992) has suggested that postmodernism in its many forms has three consequences for practices in the 'service professions' (psychology, sociology, social work, nursing and police work, family services, education and others). He characterises these as
(a) foundationlessness - a skepticism about the possibility of grounding practices in firm, invariant theoretical structures,
(b) fragmentariness - the recognition that social worlds are complex, diverse and changeable, rather than unitary, uniform and static and
(c) constructivism - the idea that human knowledge is something actively constructed by human minds as they seek to understand the flow of experience in which they are immersed.
- Text copy and paste from
Electronic Journal of Science Education - V5 N1:
http://unr.edu/homepage/crowther/ejse/geelan.html
Beyond Paradigms and Research Programs as Referents for Science Education
David R. Geelan (2000)
It is about Conceptual Change model again.
- Personal note 1:
Some possible alternative referents for thinking about science learning and teaching draw - by analogy and metaphor -
- on the 'psychology of personal constructs' outlined by Kelly (1955, 1963, 1966, 1970; Bannister & Fransella, 1971),
- on Polkinghorne's (1992) 'postmodern epistemology of practice',
- on Van Manen's (1977, 1990, 1991) 'pedagogical thoughtfulness' and
- on Whitehead's (1989, 1998) 'living educational theory'.
Polkinghorne (1992) has suggested that postmodernism in its many forms has three consequences for practices in the 'service professions' (psychology, sociology, social work, nursing and police work, family services, education and others). He characterises these as
(a) foundationlessness - a skepticism about the possibility of grounding practices in firm, invariant theoretical structures,
(b) fragmentariness - the recognition that social worlds are complex, diverse and changeable, rather than unitary, uniform and static and
(c) constructivism - the idea that human knowledge is something actively constructed by human minds as they seek to understand the flow of experience in which they are immersed.
- Text copy and paste from
Electronic Journal of Science Education - V5 N1:
http://unr.edu/homepage/crowther/ejse/geelan.html