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Learning Through School Science Investigation in an Indigenous School

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Education Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-32-9611-4

ISBN: 978-981-32-9610-7

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Aug 23, 2019

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Chapter 1Learning Through School Science Investigation

Moeed, Azra; Rofe, Craig

Pages: 1 –17

[New Zealand is a bicultural country and tries to give equal status to both the indigenous people of the land (Māori), and the Europeans (Pākehā), who settled in New Zealand after the Māori. Māori have their own language, which originally was only spoken, not written. Europeans brought English,...
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Chapter 2Research Design and Methodology

Moeed, Azra; Rofe, Craig

Pages: 19 –27

[Teaching and learning of science in New Zealand primary schools is an ongoing concern. As mentioned in the previous chapter, Pūtaiao/Science was not being taught at the research school, which was a Māori-medium school where Te Reo Māori was used as a medium of instruction. The research design...
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Chapter 3Teachers and Students Learning Through Science Investigation (Pre-phase)

Moeed, Azra; Rofe, Craig

Pages: 29 –41

[Knowledge required for teaching science and how this knowledge develops continues to be a focus of research in science education. In recent times, science curricula internationally aim for students to do science, learn science, understand how science works and develop scientifically literate...
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Chapter 4Teaching and Learning Science Investigation (Phase 1)

Moeed, Azra; Rofe, Craig

Pages: 43 –51

[The previous chapter has reported how teachers and students learned to investigate together while the researchers took turns in facilitating the learning and making observations and interviewing students and teachers. In the next phase, the two teachers, Sue and Liz, taught science to their...
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Chapter 5Enhancing Student Learning Through Science Investigation (Phase 2)

Moeed, Azra; Rofe, Craig

Pages: 53 –64

[At the end of Phase 1, research findings were shared with teachers at a hui (meeting). We reported that participating teachers had successfully planned and efficaciously taught both science content and how to investigate. They had planned an investigation together and had asked the researchers...
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Chapter 6Student Learning Through Science Investigation

Moeed, Azra; Rofe, Craig

Pages: 65 –78

[The science learning area of the New Zealand Curriculum and Pūtaiao i roto i te Marautanga o Aotearoa (Ministry of Education, 2007a, b) requires students to learn about ‘features of scientific knowledge and the processes by which it is developed’ (p. 28), and to carry out science investigations...
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Chapter 7Whakakapi (Bringing Together) Discussion

Moeed, Azra; Rofe, Craig

Pages: 79 –92

[There were three aspects to this research project and the findings have been reported in the previous chapters for the pre-phase, Phase 1 and Phase 2. The pre-phase had a professional development focus with students and teachers learning to investigate in science. One researcher did professional...

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