标题：Innovating Science Teaching by Participatory Action Research – Reflections from an Interdisciplinary Project of Curriculum Innovation on Teaching about Climate Change
期刊名称：Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal
印刷版ISSN：1855-9719
电子版ISSN：2232-2647
出版年度：2011
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：93
出版社：University of Ljubljana
摘要：This paper describes a three-year curriculum innovation projecton teaching about climate change. The innovation for thisstudy focused on a socio-critical approach towards teaching climatechange in four different teaching domains (biology, chemistry,physics and politics). The teaching itself explicitly aimedat general educational objectives, i.e., fostering students’ communicationand evaluation abilities as essential componentsfor preparing young people for active participation in society.Participatory Action Research has been used as a collaborativestrategy of cyclical curriculum innovation and research.Using past experiences and selected results from accompanyingresearch, this project and its methodology will be reflectedupon from the viewpoint of the chemistry group taking part inthe project. Core issues reflected upon include how the projectcontributed to the creation of feasible curriculum materials,how it led to innovative structures in practice, and whether itsupported experienced teachers’ ongoing professional development.General considerations for the process of curriculum innovationwill also be derived.
