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Scientists as Mentors to Science Teachers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Fiona Goodchild  and
Carol Johnston
Fiona Goodchild
Affiliation:
Materials Research Laboratory (MRL)University of California, Santa Barbara
Carol Johnston
Affiliation:
Materials Research Laboratory (MRL)University of California, Santa Barbara
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Abstract

This study of teacher researchers and mentor scientists at the Materials Research Laboratory at UCSB takes a socio-cultural perspective, assuming group norms in terms of language and practice associated with being a science teacher and a research scientist. The paper will report on data gathered from individual interviews with 6 science teachers and their mentor scientists, before and after the RET six week session in summer 2000. The interviews reveal some of the expectations and benefits expressed by teachers and scientists as well as some of the contrasts in the cultures of science teaching and research science. These factors need to be accommodated in RET project design.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 684: Symposium GG – Impacting Society Through Materials Science and Engineering Education , 2001 , GG2.3
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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