Teaching Science for Understanding: A Human Constructivist View

by Joseph D. Novak

Book Overview

Science education has undergone a revolution in recent years, shifting its emphasis from breadth and memorization to depth and understanding. Teaching Science for Understanding begins with an overview of the changes in science education. It then presents a review of each major instructional strategy, information about how it is best used, and the effectiveness of the strategies for understanding and retention of information. The book presents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 012498360X
• ISBN13: 9780124983601
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A book to help drag science teaching from the 19th Century!

An excellent book laying out the authors'view of teaching and learning - The Human Constructivist view. If you are a science teacher and feel that there is something missing in your classrooms, read this book. If you are disenchanted with a prescriptive curriculum that bores you and your students, read this book. If you want to find out how to get into your students' minds (using tools such as concept maps), read this book. I have found this book to be full of interesting and useful ideas that can act as a spark to ignite a period of critical reflection. If science teaching is to drag itself away from a 19th Century perspective that bores the pants off our students, it is thinkers such as Mintzes, Wandersee and Novak that will light the path.