Student Attitudes, Student Anxieties, and How to Address Them

A handbook for science teachers

By (author) Helge Kastrup, Jeffry V Mallow

Publication date:

01 March 2016

Length of book:

90 pages

Publisher

Morgan & Claypool Publishers

Dimensions:

255x177mm
7x10"

ISBN-13: 9781681748542

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

This book is based on a commitment to teaching science to everybody. What may work for training professional scientists does not work for general science education. Students bring to the classrooms preconceived attitudes, as well as the emotional baggage called “science anxiety”. Students may regard science as cold, unfriendly, and even inherently hostile and biased against women. This book has been designed to deal with each of these issues and results from research in both Denmark and the USA.

Table of Contents: Preface / Introduction / 1. Attitudes: What do students believe about the nature of science? / 2. Anxieties: Why do students fear science? / 3. Connections between attitudes and anxieties / 4. Constructivism: A philosophy and pedagogy of science / 5. What do we do on Monday morning? Implementing constructivist pedagogy / 6. Constructing teaching / Appendix 1. Attitudes questionnaire / Appendix 2. Multiple regression / Appendix 3. Student interview questions / Appendix 4. Anxiety questionnaire / Appendix 5. Chi-square / Appendix 6. Teachers’ practices questionnaire / Recommended additional readings