Quality Teaching in Primary Science Education

Dr Mark W Hackling is Emeritus Professor in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.Dr Jörg Ramseger is Professor of Primary Education and Head of the Center for Research in Primary Education (Arbeitsstelle Bildungsforschung Primarstufe) at the Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.Dr Hsiao-Lan Sharon Chen is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the Department of Education at the National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- Figures and Tables.- Contributing Authors.- SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE RESEARCH PROJECT.- Chapter 1 An Overview of the EQUALPRIME Project, its History and Research Design, Jörg Ramseger and Gisela Romain.- Chapter 2 Social and Cultural Factors Framing the Teaching and Learning of Primary Science in Australia, Germany and Taiwan, Mark W Hackling, Hsiao-Lan Sharon Chen and Gisela Romain.- SECTION 2: CASE STUDY ANALYSES.- Chapter 3 Physical Learning Environments for Science Education: An Ethnographic Field Study of Primary Classrooms in Australia, Germany and Taiwan, Peter Hubber and Jörg Ramseger.- Chapter 4 Variation in Whole Class, Small Group and Individual Student Work Within and Across Cultures, Mark W Hackling, George Aranda and Ines Freitag-Amtmann.- Chapter 5 Inquiry Teaching and Learning: Forms, Approaches, and Embedded Views Within and Across Cultures, Hsiao-Lan Sharon Chen and Russell Tytler.- Chapter 6 Teachers from diverse cultural settingsorchestrating classroom discourse, Russell Tytler, George Aranda and Ines Freitag-Amtmann.- Chapter 7 Reasoning Through Representations, Russell Tytler, Karen Murcia, Chao-Ti Hsiung and Jörg Ramseger.- Chapter 8 Embodied Strategies in the Teaching and Learning of Science, Khadeeja Ibrahim-Didi, Mark W Hackling, Jörg Ramseger and Barbara Sherriff.- SECTION 3: META-REFLECTIONS ON TEACHING AND LEARNING, AND CROSS-CULTURAL CLASSROOM RESEARCH.- Chapter 9 Reflections on Reasoning, Russell Tytler.- Chapter 10 Reflections on Quality Teaching in Primary Science Classrooms in Diverse Cultural Settings, Gail Chittleborough, Jörg Ramseger, Chao-Ti Hsiung, Peter Hubber and Russell Tytler.- Chapter 11 Reflections on Video-based, Cross-cultural Classroom Research Methodologies, Mark W Hackling, Gisela Romain and George Aranda.- SECTION 4: IMPLICATIONS.- Chapter 12 Implications for Practice and Teacher Education, Russell Tytler, Jörg Ramseger, Peter Hubber and Ines Freitag-Amtmann.- Chapter 13 Implications for Cross-cultural Comparative Studies of Teaching and Learning, Hsiao-Lan Sharon Chen and Pei-Tseng Jenny Hsieh.