The Natural World and Science Education in the United States

• Main Authors: Sharma, Ajay (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Buxton, Cory (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education-Curricula.; Science education.; Child development.; Curriculum Studies.; Science Education.; Early Childhood Education.

This book focuses on the representation of nature in science education in schools in the United States. Given the importance of our relationship with the nonhuman world for the fate of our planet, this work gives special attention to the representation, instruction, and understanding of the relation...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Evolving Views on the Nature of Nature
• 3. The Intended Curriculum: Locating Nature in the Science Standards
• 4. The Intended Curriculum: Nature as Represented in a Science Textbook
• 5. The Enacted Curriculum: Representations of Nature in Science Teaching
• 6. The Received Curriculum: Nature as Understood by Students
• 7. A Sustainability Science based Framework for Science Education. .