The Role of Metaphor in a New Science Teacher’s Learning from Experience

Abstract

This book brings together powerful ideas and new developments from internationally recognised scholars and classroom practitioners to provide theoretical and practical knowledge to inform progress in science education. This is achieved through a series of related chapters reporting research on analogy and metaphor in science education. Throughout the book, contributors not only highlight successful applications of analogies and metaphors, but also foreshadow exciting developments for research and practice. Themes include metaphor and analogy: best practice, as reasoning; for learning; applications in teacher development; in science education research; philosophical and theoretical foundations. Accordingly, the book is likely to appeal to a wide audience of science educators - classroom practitioners, student teachers, teacher educators and researchers. Table of Contents Metaphor and Analogy: Serious thought in science education 1(10) Peter J. Aubusson Allan G. Harrison Stephen M. Ritchie Teaching and Learning with Analogies: Friend or foe? 11(14) Allan G. Harrison David F. Treagust Complementary Epistemologies of Science Teaching: Towards an integral perspective 25(12) John William Willison Peter Charles Taylor Post-Festum and Heuristic Analogies 37(14) Jens Wilbers Duit, Reinders The Affective Dimension of Analogy 51(14) Allan G. Harrison The Role of Models, Mental Models and Analogies in Chemistry Teaching 65(14) Richard K. Coll Metaphors for Genes 79(14) Grady J. Venville Susan J. Gribble Jennifer Donovan Role Play as Analogical Modelling in Science 93(12) Peter J. Aubusson Stephen Fogwill Metaphor, Students' Conceptions of Learning and Teaching, and Metacogniton 105(14) Gregory P. Thomas The Role of Analog Models in the Understanding of the Nature of Models in Chemistry 119(12) Rosaria Justi John Gilbert The Role of Metaphor in a New Science Teachers' Learning from Experience 131(12) Tom Russell Michael Hrycenko Metaphors and Analogies in Transition: Beginning teachers' lived experience 143(12) Stephen M. Ritchie Alberto Bellocchi Heidi Poltl Marianne Wearmouth Why do Science Teachers Teach the Way They Do and How Can They Improve Practice? 155(10) Kenneth Tobin Can Analogy Help in Science Education Research? 165(12) Peter Aubusson Metaphors We Write By 177(12) Stephen M. Ritchie Metaphorically Thinking 189(8) Stephen M. Ritchie Peter J. Aubusson Allan G. Harrison Contributors 197(6) Index 203