Analyzing science education in the U.K.: taking a system-wide approach
Analyzing science education in the U.K.: taking a system-wide approach
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分析英国的科学教育：采取全系统方法
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10.1002/sce.21140
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发表时间：
2015
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B. Wong
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作者：
J. Falk;L. Dierking;J. Osborne;M. Wenger;Emily Dawson;B. Wong
越来越多的证据表明，个人在学校内外发展他们对科学概念的理解，利用各种社区资源和网络。因此，在对比的历史研究方法，专注于单一的组织和/或教育活动，目前的论文提出了探索性的研究，我们利用特定的社区生态分析工具和方法来描述和分析英国。整个科学教育界。数据显示，总体而言，科学教育界的相互联系和协作程度很高，在个别部门内部，部门之间的相互联系和协作程度也很低;学校和大学在较小程度上是这种模式的例外。一个重要的结论是，管理，以最大限度地提高科学教育的有效性，英国。科学教育界将支持系统内科学教育实体的数量继续多样化，并鼓励相互协作、协同增效的关系。我们认为，系统研究可以更广泛，更全面地了解系统的优势和劣势，为科学教育活动的结构和功能提供有用的见解;这些见解可以帮助研究人员，从业者和政策制定者提高全民科学教育的整体质量。
Increasing evidence suggests that individuals develop their understanding of science concepts in and out of school, using varied community resources and networks. Thus in contrast to historic research approaches that focus exclusively on single organizations and/or educational events, the current paper presents exploratory research in which we utilized specific community ecology analytical tools and approaches to describe and analyze the U.K. science education community as a whole. Data suggest that overall the U.K. science education community is highly interconnected, and collaborative within individual sectors and moderately interconnected and collaborative between sectors; schools and to a lesser degree universities were outliers to this pattern. An important conclusion was that management to maximize the effectiveness of science education the U.K. science education community would involve support for continued diversification of the number of science education entities in the system and encouragement of reciprocally collaborative, synergistic relationships. We posit that systemic research enables a broader, more comprehensive view of a system's strengths and weaknesses, offering useful insights into the structure and functioning of science education activities; insights that could help researchers, practitioners, and policy makers improve the overall quality of science education delivery for all.