HomeHelpSearchVideo SearchAudio SearchLabel Display ReserveMy AccountLibrary Map
Description Field Ind Field Data
Leader LDR cam a 00
Control # 1 2005004549
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20190911110625.0
Fixed Data 8 050217s2005 mdu b 001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2005004549
ISBN 20    $a0742537048 (alk. paper)
ISBN 20    $a0742537056 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Obsolete 39    $a229913$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dGCG
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
LC Call 50 00 $aQ181$b.I624 2005
Dewey Class 82 00 $a507.1/2173/2$222
Title 245 00 $aImproving urban science education :$bnew roles for teachers, students, and researchers /$cedited by Kenneth Tobin, Rowhea Elmesky, and Gale Seiler.
Imprint 260    $aLanham, MD :$bRowman & Littlefield Publishers,$cc2005.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axvi, 346 p. ;$c24 cm.
Series:Diff 490 $aReverberations
Note:General 500    $a"The research in this book is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. REC-0107022." - Acknowledgments
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Content 505 $aIntroduction / Kenneth Tobin, Rowhea Elmesky, Gale Seiler -- 1. The who, what, where, and how of our urban ethnographic research / Gale Seiler, Rowhea Elmesky -- 2. Urban science as a culturally and socially adaptive practice / Kenneth Tobin -- 3. Painting the landscape: urban schools and urban classrooms / Gale Seiler, Lacie Butler -- 4. Organizational mediation of urban science / Wolff-Michael Roth -- 5. Playin on the streets--solidarity in the classroom: weak cultural boundaries and the implications for urban science education / Rowhea Elmesky -- 6. All my life I been po': oral fluency as a resource for science teaching and learning / Gale Seiler -- 7. Becoming an urban science teacher: the first three years / Jennifer Beers -- 8. The role of cogenerative dialogue in learning to teach and transforming learning environments / Sarah-Kate LaVan, Jennifer Beers -- 9. Learning science and the centrality of student participation / Cristobal Carambo -- 10. Female sexuality as agency and oppression in urban science classrooms / Melissa Sterba -- 11. Meeting the needs and adapting to the capital of a Queen Mother and an Ol' Head: gender equity in urban high school science / Kathryn Scantlebury -- 12. Paperclips + polymers --> problems: learning to use Levels of Representation in a high school chemistry classroom / Tracey Otieno, Catherine Milne -- 13. An autobiographical approach to becoming a science teacher in an urban high school / Sonya N. Martin -- 14. Beyond either-or: reconsidering resources in terms of structures / Sarah-Kate LaVan -- 15. My cultural awakening in the classroom / Linda Loman -- 16. Social and cultural capital in science teaching: relating practice and reflection / Stacy Olitsky -- 17. Transforming the future while learning from the past / Kenneth Tobin, Rowhea Elmesky, Gale Seiler.
Abstract 520    $a"This volume is a systematic attempt to document what we have learned from seven years of research on the teaching and learning of science in the urban high schools of Philadelphia. - Introd.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aScience$xStudy and teaching (Middle school)
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aUrban schools$xCurricula.
AE:Pers Name 700 $aTobin, Kenneth George,$d1944-
AE:Pers Name 700 $aElmesky, Rowhea,$d1975-
AE:Pers Name 700 $aSeiler, Gale,$d1952-
SE:Ufm Title 830  0 $aReverberations (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)