Science and Society in the Classroom: Using Sociocultural Perspectives to Develop Science Education By Geeta Verma

Science and Society in the Classroom: Using Sociocultural Perspec ...

Chapter 1:

Introduction

Read

ABOUT
- Data
- Description
- Reviews
- About Author
- Cover
RESEARCH
- Bookmarks
- Notes
FONT
- Font Size
  - x-small
  - small
  - medium
  - large
  - x-large
- Line Height
  - 1.00
  - 1.25
  - 1.50
  - 1.75
  - 2.00
- Letter Spacing
  - Default
  - 1 pixel
  - 2 pixels
  - 3 pixels
  - 4 pixels
DOWNLOAD
- Complete Edition
PAGE
- TOC
- Copyright
- Preface
- References
- Index

study. This research study examines the impact of a contextualized science curriculum (an alternate science curriculum) on student content acquisition, student attitudes, student engagement in science classroom, and teachers' self-efficacy beliefs in an urban middle school science classroom.

Figure 1. Koul's (1997) themes of contextualized curriculum and the framework of contextualized curriculum (CC) used in the study.