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1. Student Thinking and Learning in Science

   Perspectives on the Nature and Development of Learners' Ideas

   By Keith S. Taber

   Series: Teaching and Learning in Science Series

   This readable and informative primer on a major topic in science education offers science education students and classroom teachers a survey of key ideas about students’ ideas and thinking in science. Focused on the secondary age range, and drawing on perspectives found in the international...

   To Be Published April 30th 2014 by Routledge
2. Science Education for Gifted Learners

   Edited by Keith S. Taber

   Science is central to our modern technological society, yet many of the most able pupils who could become the scientists of tomorrow turn away from science as soon as they have a choice in their studies. Science is often seen to be difficult or boring, and fails to engage or challenge those who are...

   Published April 11th 2007 by Routledge
3. Researching Schools

   Stories from a Schools-University Partnership for Educational Research

   By Colleen McLaughlin, Kristine Black Hawkins, Sue Brindley, Donald McIntyre, Keith Taber

   Presenting the work of a highly innovative partnership between the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education and eight secondary schools, this book explores this networked learning community which has helped to define the use and production of educational knowledge and research within and...

   Published September 4th 2006 by Routledge
4. Science

   Teaching School Subjects 11-19

   Edited by Vanessa Kind, Keith Taber

   Series: Teaching School Subjects 11-19

   In recognizing that new teachers often feel disempowered by the subject expertise they bring into teaching, this book not only covers the training standards for NQTs and the Induction Standards, but takes the reader beyond this by fully exploring issues relating to subject knowledge in learning to...

   Published May 11th 2005 by Routledge