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Introduction (David Geelan and Kim Nichols)
Part I: Learning About Wicked Problems
Chapter 1. Climate change education: Simple or complex? The impact of culture on students' willingness to reduce global warming (Keith Skamp, Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet)
Chapter 2. Investigating students' self-efficacy and self-concept in science through collaborative inquiry: Unpacking the hidden complexity within data (Debra Panizzon, Bruce White, Katrina Elliott and Alex Semmens)
Chapter 3. Using Socioscientific Issues to Promote the Critical Thinking Skills of Year 10 Science Students in Diverse School Contexts (Vaille Dawson And Grady Venville)
Part II: Teacher Preparation and Retention: Supporting Early-Career Science Teachers
Chapter 4. Chicken wings and a deflated football: Metaphors of the complexity of learning to teach science and mathematics out-of-field (Linda Hobbs and Frances Quinn)
Chapter 5. Teacher Retention: Supporting Early-Career Science Teachers (Merryn Dawborn-Gundlach)
Chapter 6. Exploring the Nature, and Teachers' Understanding, of the National Curriculum Statement (NCS, Grades R-12): Navigating the Changing Landscape of Science Education through the Curriculum Assessment and Policy Statement (CAPS) in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Julius Ajayi Eyitayo)
Part III: Making the Complexities of Physical Sciences Accessible
Chapter 7. Teaching electricity to Year 6 primary students using representational pedagogies: from simple circuits to complex ideas (Peter Hubber and Christine Preston)
Chapter 8. Complexity in primary children's representations of Science and Mathematics concepts (Christine Preston, Jennifer Way and Eleni Smyrnis)
Chapter 9. Making the complex history of chemistry accessible: Edgar Fahs Smith (1854-1928), chemical researcher, administrator, educator, and student of chemistry's history (William P. Palmer)
Chapter 10. Can the complexities of developing students' literacy skills around physical science concepts benefit from a singular approach to teaching academic vocabulary? (Chris Nielsen)
Index.
Part I: Learning About Wicked Problems
Chapter 1. Climate change education: Simple or complex? The impact of culture on students' willingness to reduce global warming (Keith Skamp, Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet)
Chapter 2. Investigating students' self-efficacy and self-concept in science through collaborative inquiry: Unpacking the hidden complexity within data (Debra Panizzon, Bruce White, Katrina Elliott and Alex Semmens)
Chapter 3. Using Socioscientific Issues to Promote the Critical Thinking Skills of Year 10 Science Students in Diverse School Contexts (Vaille Dawson And Grady Venville)
Part II: Teacher Preparation and Retention: Supporting Early-Career Science Teachers
Chapter 4. Chicken wings and a deflated football: Metaphors of the complexity of learning to teach science and mathematics out-of-field (Linda Hobbs and Frances Quinn)
Chapter 5. Teacher Retention: Supporting Early-Career Science Teachers (Merryn Dawborn-Gundlach)
Chapter 6. Exploring the Nature, and Teachers' Understanding, of the National Curriculum Statement (NCS, Grades R-12): Navigating the Changing Landscape of Science Education through the Curriculum Assessment and Policy Statement (CAPS) in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Julius Ajayi Eyitayo)
Part III: Making the Complexities of Physical Sciences Accessible
Chapter 7. Teaching electricity to Year 6 primary students using representational pedagogies: from simple circuits to complex ideas (Peter Hubber and Christine Preston)
Chapter 8. Complexity in primary children's representations of Science and Mathematics concepts (Christine Preston, Jennifer Way and Eleni Smyrnis)
Chapter 9. Making the complex history of chemistry accessible: Edgar Fahs Smith (1854-1928), chemical researcher, administrator, educator, and student of chemistry's history (William P. Palmer)
Chapter 10. Can the complexities of developing students' literacy skills around physical science concepts benefit from a singular approach to teaching academic vocabulary? (Chris Nielsen)
Index.