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An Enactment of Science, A Dynamic Balance Among Curriculum, Context and Teacher Beliefsreviewed by Angelo Collins - 2004 Title: An Enactment of Science, A Dynamic Balance Among Curriculum, Context and Teacher Beliefs Author(s): Robert W. Blake Jr. Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, New York ISBN: 082045124X, Pages: 232, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com “That’s a good piece of work. With revision I
bet it could be published.” I’ve said this to
students who have completed papers for courses, master’s
theses, and doctoral dissertations. Typically I make this
suggestion when the work is timely, organized around
well-structured and compelling arguments and composed with style.
I’m guessing that many readers of TCR have
offered similar counsel. An Enactment of Science, A
Dynamic Balance Among Curriculum, Context and Teacher Beliefs
clearly is a revision of a dissertation. In the
acknowledgements, the author, Robert W. Blake Jr., thanks his
dissertation committee and fellow graduate students. Also,
the organization of the book mirrors the organization of a
dissertation. There is the introduction in Chapter One
followed by the theoretical frameworks and method in Chapters Two,
Three and Four. Chapters Five, Six, Seven and Eight present
the findings while the analysis and conclusions are offered in
Chapters Nine and Ten. I propose that this book is evidence
that the advice to publish work completed as a student... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Angelo Collins
Knowles Science Teaching Foundation E-mail Author ANGELO COLLINS is the Executive Director of the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation (KSTF), which was established to enhance the quantity of high quality high school science teaching. KSTF supports prospective and novice science teachers as well as research on teacher preparation. Dr. Collins is an associate Editor of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching and on the editorial board of the journal, Science Education. She also served as the director of the project that produced the National Science Education Standards.
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