Gale Seiler
Biographic Data
| ID | 216818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gale Seiler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gale |
| FAMILY NAME | Seiler |
| SIGNATURE | SEILER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bringing climate scientist’s tools into classrooms to improve conceptual understandings
New Norms and Forms of Participation in Rural South African Science Classrooms
New forms of classroom participation, envisioned as contributing to democracy, are advocated by the South African national curriculum. This paper investigates what form participatory science teaching can and should take in South Africa where the legacy of colonialism and apartheid remains and considers this question through the efforts of two pre-service teachers who created new norms and forms of classroom participation. Findings demonstrate tha…
Reconstructing Science Curricula Through Student Voice and Choice
How can teachers enact a curriculum that is responsive to students and emergent from them when teachers are under enormous constraints to cover specific course content and to prepare students for standardized tests? Rather than an either/or perspective, this article embraces a both/and approach based on the belief that teachers can do both. Drawing upon qualitative classroom data gleaned from 3 years of research in an inner-city high school, four…
Reconstructing Science Curricula Through Student Voice and Choice
How can teachers enact a curriculum that is responsive to students and emergent from them when teachers are under enormous constraints to cover specific course content and to prepare students for standardized tests? Rather than an either/or perspective, this article embraces a both/and approach based on the belief that teachers can do both. Drawing upon qualitative classroom data gleaned from 3 years of research in an inner-city high school, four…
Reconstructing Science Curricula Through Student Voice and Choice
How can teachers enact a curriculum that is responsive to students and emergent from them when teachers are under enormous constraints to cover specific course content and to prepare students for standardized tests? Rather than an either/or perspective, this article embraces a both/and approach based on the belief that teachers can do both. Drawing upon qualitative classroom data gleaned from 3 years of research in an inner-city high school, four…
Bringing climate scientist’s tools into classrooms to improve conceptual understandings
New Norms and Forms of Participation in Rural South African Science Classrooms
New forms of classroom participation, envisioned as contributing to democracy, are advocated by the South African national curriculum. This paper investigates what form participatory science teaching can and should take in South Africa where the legacy of colonialism and apartheid remains and considers this question through the efforts of two pre-service teachers who created new norms and forms of classroom participation. Findings demonstrate tha…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Curriculum (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · Best practice (1 work) · Citizen journalism (1 work)