From the editor of the School Science Review:

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Date: 21 May 2002 11:33 +0100
From: "Mick NOTT(EDS)" <M.Nott@...>
To: PTNC@...
Subject: the impact of science education research

Dear Colleagues

A call for contributions

The December 2002 issue of SSR (84, 307) will focus on the impact of
science education research on the practice of science teaching. The issue
will contain articles by teachers and lecturers in the UK that both report
on the products and value of doing research into science education, and
also discuss practical and professional issues to do with science
education research.

I am soliciting short contributions that begin with stem, "A piece of
research that influenced me was ..."

These contributions would be dotted around the issue as reflections by
teachers and others about the value of reading about or doing research.
An example is below.
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==== A piece of research that influenced me was Davies' and Greene?s (1984)
research and development on reading and using text in school science. This
book was a revelation in the structure of science texts and categories of
types of reading tasks when I was working as a head of science. Before
this book I hadn?t really thought about reading; I had just asked pupils to
read and make notes or copy or learn. This book with its pupils'
activities of cloze, DARTS, text analysis, text
reconstruction and so on suddenly made reading a much more worthwhile and
effective activity. All this stuff seemed to fade away and though we
carried on teaching it to trainees there didn?t seem to be much use of it
in schools by the mid-1990s. I am glad to see that it is making a
comeback in the current literacy strategy (Heselden and Staples 2002)

Davies, F. and Greene, T. (1984) Schools Council: Reading for Learning in
the Sciences Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd
Heselden, R. and Staples, R. (2002) Science teaching and literacy, part 2:
Reading SSR 83(304) pp 51 ? 62

Mick Nott

(148 words excluding the references)
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Contributions should reach me by beginning of September and will be
subject to refereeing and editing

Each item should be approx. 150 words

If you wish to discuss a possible contribution then get back to me on
email thanks

best wishes

Mick

Mick Nott
Editor, SSR
School of Education
Sheffield Hallam University
S10 2BP, UK
Work Tel +44 (0)114 225 2463/2306
Home Tel +44 (0)114 275 8579
Fax +44 (0)114 225 2323
m.nott@...

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