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Qualitative Research Of Situation Created Relevance In Middle School Chemistry Class

Posted on:2011-12-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360305489370Subject:Curriculum and pedagogy
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As the ideas of new curriculum become more and more important day by day, the situational teaching is accepted by many teachers, and also applied to the classroom. This kind of teaching is increasingly playing an important role today. Many teachers from front-line are keen on creating different kinds of situations in the classroom. However, a lot of problems also come with it, for example, what the real situation it should be in today's secondary classroom. This paper explores a lot on the relevance which is seldom studied in the current time. In this paper, Constructivist Learning Theory is the theoretical fundamental. The qualitative research methods, including classroom observation, interviews, etc., are used to obtain first-hand information from the front line teaching. The teaching is recorded in the classroom, the students'behaviors and languages are also recorded. All of these materials are used for further analysis, in order to optimize the current status of situational teaching in the secondary school.This paper is divided into four parts as following:The first part is about overall introduction of the research background.The second part is about research methods and processes. The paper introduces the preparatory phase and research processes. The materials obtained by the analysis, the reliability and validity issues are elaborated.The third part of the discussion for the relevance of the situational creating in today's secondary classroom, including the situational source material, the approaches, the timing, the contents. The various scenarios and the root causes for these problems are analyzed.The fourth part is the conclusions and recommendations.
Keywords/Search Tags:Chemistry Teaching, Situation Creating, Relevance, Qualitative Research
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