This research is about the attitudes and educational practices towards inclusion of students with disabilities in science classroom. Four research questions were raised: (1) What are the attitudes of science teachers about the inclusion of students with disabilities?, (2) What i…
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Through this research we will fully assess the benefits brought by the ExAO (Computer Assisted Experimentation) in school laboratories of science and technology in Lebanon. We would also like to mention its contribution in a tangible way in laboratory research of Pedagogic Robot…
This action research study was focused on how two middle school science teachers at the American International School in Israel (AIS-1) addressed strategies to develop projects in which their students could learn at a distance but not from a distance. The idea was not to develop…
In this study I have described and tried to comprehend how a female science teacher understands her practice. Additionally, I have developed some understanding of her understanding of the nature of science. While teaching science, a teacher projects messages about the nature of …
The framework that characterizes this work is that of elementary teachers' learning and development. Specifically, the ways in which prospective and beginning teachers' develop pedagogical content knowledge for teaching science in light of current recommendations for reform emph…
In the nineteenth century, geophysics and empire building developed in tandem. As a result, empirical science could utilize the imperial structure to conduct research on a worldwide scale. Scientific motives for such studies included the need to confront both weaknesses in the i…
Beginning with Great Britain's colonial takeover of Egypt's School of Medicine and adjoining hospital in 1893 until its return to Egyptian hands in 1929, this study examines how Anglo-Egyptian medical discourse constructed a trope of the “modern Egyptian woman.” By cautiously ap…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes toward science and science teaching of Saudi pre-service elementary science teachers at male and female teachers' colleges by using an Arabic translation of the Science Teaching Attitudes Scale (STAS-II) constructed by M…
This study was designed to investigate the relationships between science misconceptions and working memory capacity in Saudi adolescent students. The participants in this study were from eleventh and twelfth grades; both male and female students and natural and social science Sa…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of Saudi Arabian secondary preservice science teachers (SPSTs) toward a variety of science teaching practices. An ultimate, essential goal of this study was to use generated information and findings to improve the curren…
This research focuses on the differential achievement of students taking advanced mathematics or physics or both versus students taking none of these courses. The target sample, extracted from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, included secondary school stude…
This study, conducted in Pakistan, is an investigation into how science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge can be enhanced through reflective dialogues and narratives. A review of the educational system of Pakistan reveals that education, in particular science education, ha…
This dissertation provides a historical dimension to development studies by tracing, for one region, the emergence of official and popular discourses on rural poverty and “backwardness” and the prospect of their amelioration through science, social science and technology. Combin…
This thesis investigates the changing forms and roles of science, technology, and expert knowledge in agricultural development in Zambia from 1945 to the present day. The main focus is on the changing ideologies, polices, and technologies that different development agencies have…
Previous research has noted that members of research ethics committees are unclear about the extent of their roles. In this study, research amongst members of independent ethics committees (IECs) about how the ‘expert’ and ‘lay’ roles are understood and operationalized offers an…
The philosophical and scientific teaching in the universities of 17th century Scotland has frequently been dismissed as Aristotelian and reactionary. However, there must surely have been some development during the century for the universities to have achieved as much as they di…
Through ethnography, this dissertation chronicles how a West African variant of HIV, known as HIV-2, emerged as a knowable entity. It examines how a nation like Senegal, which exists at the margins of capitalism and the periphery of the biomedical knowledge empire, has come to o…
The dissertation, The Most Scientific Religion: The Religious Discourse of Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh Applied Science Professionals , is a sociological study of immigrant engineers and IT professionals and students and their religious discourse. The dissertation examines how work p…