Assignment Details

Readings and
Session Notes

some of your best ideas?

The references and links listed here in association with specific sessions are of two types:

a) required reading/viewing for the session
b) sources of additional information

Session 1, Sept. 12
resources associated with in-class discussion:

K - 8 (curriculum guidelines)
high school (curriculum guidelines)
U of T Library
Chemistry Library

read before NEXT SESSION:

Skemp. R. (1989). Intelligence and understanding. In Mathematics in the Primary School. ch. 2. Routledge. London.

Session 2, Sept. 19
read and watch before NEXT SESSION:

Skemp, R. (1979). Survival, Evolution and Learning in Intelligence, Learning and Action. ch. 1. Wiley & Sons. New York.

Kamii, C. 1991. Toward autonomy: the importance of critical thinking and choice making. School Psychology Review 20 (3):382-388.

Robin Williams The Dead Poet Society

Session 3, Sept. 26
read before NEXT SESSION:

Eisner, E.W. (1991). What the arts taught me about education. In Willis, G. and Schubert, W.H. (ed.) Reflections from the heart of educational inquiry. State U of New York Press. Albany, N.Y.

Session 4, Oct. 3
read before NEXT SESSION:

Miller, J.P. (1996). The Why and What. In The holistic curriculum. OISE Press. Toronto. ch. 1.

Deporter, B.i with Hernacki, M. (1992). Discovering your personal learning style. In Quantum learning: unleashing the genius in you. Dell Publishing, N.Y. ch. 6. p 110-143.

Oct. 10 - Thanksgiving Day, University closed

Session 5, Oct. 17
read before NEXT SESSION:

Michael Polanyi on the Education and Knowledge of Scientists [if this link does not work on your computer, go to the library page. Under e-Journals, find the following reference: Jacobs, S., Science and Education 9 pages 309-320, Kluwer Publishers, 2000 and select the full text version]

Session 6, Oct. 24
read before NEXT SESSION:

Session 7, Oct. 31
for NEXT SESSION:

prepare lessons, handouts, props

Session 8, Nov. 7
dress rehearsal

Sessions 9,10, Nov. 14, 21

teaching; prepare for debates
debate 1 resolution: "be it resolved that most scientists are puzzle-solvers who aim to discover what they already know in advance"
debate 2 resolution: "be it resolved that science is an art form personally and intuitively exercised by skilled practitioners"

Session 11, Nov. 28
before NEXT SESSION:
assigned section of Nadeau and Desautels. 1984. Epistemology and the teaching of science. Science Council of Canada, discussion paper

Session 12, Dec. 5
read before NEXT SESSION:

Osborne, J. 1998. Science education without a laboratory? In J.J. Wellington (Ed), Practical work in school science: which way now? London; New York: Routledge

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