Bridging Research and Practice in Science Education

1. Introduction; Eilish McLoughlin, Odilla E. Finlayson, Sibel Erduran and Peter E. Childs.- PART 1: Innovative Approaches to School Science.- 2. Science Education: A Balancing Act Between Research in University, Daily Instruction in Schools and Politics in Education Ministries; Peter Labudde.- 3. Energy teaching at high school based on history and philosophy of science; Manuel Bächtold and Valérie Munier.- 4. An explorative laboratory study: Changing representations of functional dependencies in physics class of lower secondary school; Marie-Annette Geyer and Gesche Pospiech.- 5. Multiple external representations (MER) as a component of special language in biology; Christina Beck and Claudia Nerdel.- 6. Heat angels and paper cups: Discovering pupils' multimodal experiences of heat using thermal cameras; Andreas Larsson, Matilda Stafstedt and Konrad J. Schönborn.- 7. Science or magic? Reactions of 5 years old pupils to a counter-intuitive experiment; Estelle Blanquet and Eric Picholle.- PART 2: Emerging Identities in Science Education.- 8.  Using theoretical and methodological triangulation to study motivation in the science classroom; Jenny M. Hellgren.- 9. Students' Awareness of Working Life Skills in the UK, Finland and Germany; Anssi Salonen, Anu Hartikainen-Ahia, Tuula Keinonen, Inês Direito, John Connolly, Annette Scheersoi and Lara Weiser.- 10. Participation and Learner Trajectories in Computing; Anne-Kathrin Peters.- 11. Addressing Complexity in Science|Environment|Health Pedagogy; Albert Zeyer, Nuria Álvaro, Julia Arnold, J. Christian Benninghaus, Helen Hasslöf, Kerstin Kremer, Mats Lundström, Olga Mayoral, Jesper Sjöström, Sandra Sprenger, Valentín Gavidia, and Alla Keselman.- 12. Promoting Students' Critical and Active Engagement in Socio-scientific Problems: Inter/Trans-national Perspectives; Larry Bencze, Lyn Carter, Audrey Groleau, Mirjan Krstovic, Ralph Levinson, Jenny Martin, Isabel Martins, Chantal Pouliot and Matthew Weinstein.- 13.

Eilish McLoughlin is an Associate Professor in the School of Physical Sciences and Director of the Research Centre for the Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning (CASTeL) at Dublin City University. She obtained her PhD in Experimental Surface Physics and for the past 18 years her interests have evolved to focus on physics and science education research that examine the development of curriculum, instruction and assessment models in STEM education, at all levels of education, from primary school to PhD level. She has led and collaborated in many research projects at EU, national, and local levels, including EU FP-7 project SAILS and co-ordinator of EU FP-7 project ESTABLISH. She co-leads the physics initial teacher education programme at Dublin City University and has led several projects that support teachers, both in-service and pre-service, in adopting innovative practices in their classrooms and enhance student identity in Physics. She has received recognition for her leadership in STEM Education and engagement across formal and informal contexts: including the NAIRTL National Award for Teaching Excellence (2010); Institute of Physics Lise Meitner Medal (2018) and the Young Professional Physicist of the Year (2016) and Dublin City University's President Award for Public Engagement (2017) and for Teaching and Learning (2005).





Odilla E. Finlayson is Associate Professor of Science Education in the School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University. She is one of the founding members of CASTeL (Centre for the Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning) in Dublin City University and plays an active part in its management and development. She is involved in teaching (mainly physical) chemistry to undergraduate science students and to pre-service teachers. She is interested in curriculum development at second level and was a member of the Board of Science Studies in NCCA (National Council for Curriculum