EJ414231 SP519854
Title: Teachers' Beliefs about the Nature of Science and Their Relationship
to Classroom Practice.Author(s): Brickhouse, Nancy W.
Source: Journal of Teacher Education, v41 n3 p53-62 May-Jun 1990
Publication Date: 1990
ISSN: 0022-4781
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJJAN1991
Discusses three teachers' syntactical subject matter knowledge in science. The focus of the discussion is the link between teachers' views of the growth of scientific knowledge and the methods they use to help students construct a knowledge of science. (IAH)
Descriptors:
Case Studies; Classroom Techniques; Elementary Secondary Education;
Laboratory Procedures; Questioning Techniques; *Science Instruction;
*Science Teachers; *Scientific Attitudes; Scientific Concepts; Teacher
Attitudes; *Teaching Methods
Identifiers: Subject Content Knowledge; *Teacher Knowledge; *Teacher
Thinking
