PART ONE -- Preface -- Section 1: Sociocultural Perspectives and Urban Education -- KENNETH TOBIN: 1.1 Sociocultural Perspectives on Science Education -- STACY OLITSKY & CATHERINE MILNE: 1.2 Understanding Engagement in Science Education: The Psychological and the Social -- YEW-JIN LEE: 1.3 Identity-Based Research in Science Education -- JRÈNE RAHM: 1.4 Diverse Urban Youth's Learning of Science Outside School in University Outreach and Community Science Programs -- CHRISTOPHER EMDIN: 1.5 Reality Pedagogy and Urban Science Education: Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of the Urban Science Classroom -- DONNA KING & STEPHEN M. RITCHIE: 1.6 Learning Science Through Real-World Contexts -- ROWHEA ELMESKY: 1.7 Collaborative Research Models for Transforming Teaching and Learning Experiences.- MARIA VARELAS, JUSTINE M. KANE, ELI TUCKER-RAYMOND & CHRISTINE C. PAPPAS: 1.8 Science Learning in Urban Elementary School Classrooms: Liberatory Education and Issues of Access, Participation and Achievement -- Section 2: Learning and Conceptual Change -- REINDERS DUIT & DAVID F. TREAGUST: 2.1 How Can Conceptual Change Contribute to Theory and Practice in Science Education? -- STELLA VOSNIADOU: 2.2 Reframing the Classical Approach to Conceptual Change: Preconceptions, Misconceptions and Synthetic Models -- GREGORY P. THOMAS: 2.3 Metacognition in Science Education: Past, Present and Future Considerations.- BRUCE WALDRIP & VAUGHAN PRAIN: 2.4 Learning From and Through Representations in Science -- LYNN STEPHENS & JOHN J. CLEMENT: 2.5 The Role of Thought Experiments in Science and Science Learning -- COLETTE MURPHY: 2.6 Vygotsky and Primary Science -- AVI HOFSTEIN & PER M. KIND: 2.7 Learning In and From Science Laboratories: URI ZOLLER & TAMI LEVY NAHUM: 2.8 From Teaching to KNOW to Learning to THINK in Science Education -- EDUARDO F. MORTIMER, PHIL SCOTT & CHARBEL N. EL-HANI: 2.9 The Heterogeneity of Discourse in Science Classrooms: The Conceptual Profile Approach -- KNUT NEUMANN, ALEXANDER KAUERTZ & HANS E. FISCHER: 2.10 Quality of Instruction in Science Education -- FANG-YING YANG & CHIN-CHUNG TSAI: 2.11  Personal Epistemology and Science Learning: A Review of Empirical Studies -- GREGORY J. KELLY, SCOTT MCDONALD & PER-OLOF WICKMAN: 2.12 Science Learning and Epistemology -- Section 3: Teacher Education and Professional Development -- JOHN WALLACE & JOHN LOUGHRAN: 3.1 Science Teacher Learning -- SHIRLEY SIMON & SANDRA CAMPBELL: 3.2 Teacher Learning and Professional Development in Science Education -- PAULINE W.U. CHINN: 3.3 Developing Teachers' Place-Based and Culture-Based Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Agency -- NORMAN G. LEDERMAN & JUDITH S. LEDERMAN: 3.4 Nature of Scientific Knowledge and Scientific Inquiry: Building Instructional Capacity Through Professional Development -- THOMAS KOBALLA, JR. & LESLIE U. BRADBURY: 3.5 Mentoring in Support of Reform-Based Science Teaching -- PETER C. TAYLOR, ELISABETH SETTELMAIER & BAL CHANDRA LUITEL: 3.6 Multi-Paradigmatic Transformative Research as/for Teacher Education: An Integral Perspective -- JULIE A. BIANCHINI: 3.7 Teaching While Still Learning to Teach: Beginning Science Teachers' Views, Experiences and Classroom Practices -- AMANDA BERRY & JOHN LOUGHRAN: 3.8 Developing Science Teacher Educators' Pedagogy of Teacher Education -- SONYA N. MARTIN & CHRISTINA SIRY: 3.9 Using Video in Science Teacher Education: An Analysis of the Utlilization of Video-Based Media by Teacher Educators and Researchers -- HANS E. FISCHER, ANDREAS BOROWSKI & OLIVER TEPNER: 3.10 Professional Knowledge of Science Teachers -- JALE CAKIROGLU, YESIM CAPA AYDIN & ANITA WOOLFOLK HOY: 3.11 Science Teaching Efficacy Beliefs -- JAMES J. GALLAGHER, ROBERT E. FLODEN & YOVITA GWEKWERERE: 3.12 Context for Developing Leadership in Science and Mathematics Education in the United States -- LYNN A. BRYAN: 3.13 Research on Science Teacher Beliefs -- Section 4: Equity and Social Justice -- KATHRYN SCANTLEBURY: 4.1 Still Part of the Conversation: Gender Issues in Science Education -- ADRIANE SLATON & ANGELA CALABRESE BARTON: 4.2 Respect and Science Learning -- DEBRA PANIZZON: 4.3 Science Education in Rural Settings: Exploring the 'State of Play' Internationally. ELIZABETH MCKINLEY & GEORGINA STEWART: 4.4 Out of Place: Indigenous Knowledge in the Science Curriculum -- KATHERINE RICHARDSON BRUNA: 4.5 On Knowing and US Mexican Youth: Bordering Science Education Research, Practice and Policy.-EILEEN CARLTON PARSONS, JAMES COOPER & JAMILA SMITH SIMPSON: 4.6 Science Education Research Involving Blacks in the United Sates during 1997-2007: Synthesis, Critique and Recommendations -- MARIA S. RIVERA MAULUCCI: 4.7 Social Justice Research in Science Education: Methodologies, Positioning and Implications for Future Research -- Section 5: Assessment and Evaluation -- RUSSELL TYTLER & JONATHAN OSBORNE: 5.1 Student Attitudes and Aspirations Towards Science -- KAREN KERR & COLETTE MURPHY: 5.2 Children's Attitudes to Primary Science -- XIUFENG LIU: 5.3 Developing Measurement Instruments for Science Education Research -- MANFRED PRENZEL, TINA SEIDEL & MAREIKE KOBARG: 5.4 Science Teaching and Learning: An International Comparative Perspective -- BRONWEN COWIE: 5.5 Focusing on the Classroom: Assessment for Learning -- IRIT SASSON & YEHUDIT J. DORI: 5.6 Transfer Skills and Their Case-Based Assessment -- ALEXANDER KAUERTZ, KNUT NEUMANN & HENDRIK HAERTIG: 5.7 Competence in Science Education -- FRANCES LAWRENZ & CHRISOPHER DAVID DESJARDINS: 5.8 Trends in Government-Funded Multi-Site K-12 Science Program Evaluation -- PART TWO -- Section 6: Curriculum and Reform -- GRADY VENVILLE, LÉONIE J. RENNIE & JOHN WALLACE: 6.1 Curriculum Integration: Challenging the Assumption of School Science as Powerful Knowledge -- CLARE CHRISTENSEN & PETER J. FENSHAM: 6.2 Risk, Uncertainty and Complexity in Science Education -- RICHARD K. COLL & NEIL TAYLOR: 6.3 An International Perspective on Science Curriculum Development and Implementation -- DAVID FORTUS & JOSEPH KRAJCIK: 6.4 Curriculum Coherence and Learning Progressions -- TROY D. SADLER & VAILLE DAWSON: 6.5 Socio-Scientific Issues in Science Education: Contexts for the Promotion of Key Learning Outcomes -- ALISTER JONES: 6.6 Technology in Science Education: Context, Contestation and Connection -- APRIL LUEHMANN & JEREMIAH FRINK: 6.7 Web 2.0 Technologies, New Media Literacies and Science Education: Exploring the Potential to Transform -- STEPHEN M. RITCHIE: 6.8 Leading the Transformation of Learning and Praxis in Science Classrooms -- SUSAN A. KIRCH: 6.9 Understanding Scientific Uncertainty as a Teaching and Learning Goal -- MICHAEL P. MUELLER & DEBORAH TIPPINS: 6.10 Citizen Science, Ecojustice and Science Education: Rethinking and Education from Nowhere -- HANNA J. ARZI: 6.11 Change - A Desired Permanent State in Science Education -- LYN CARTER: 6.12 Globalisation and Science Education: Global Information Culture, Postcolonialism and Sustainability -- SHARON J. LYNCH: 6.13 Metaphor and Theory for Scale-Up Research: Eagles in the Anacostia and Activity Systems -- Section 7: Argumentation and Nature of Science -- JONATHAN OSBORNE: 7.1 The Role of Argument: Learning How to Learn in School Science -- CATHERINE MILNE: 7.2 Beyond Argument in Science: Science Education as Connected and Separate Knowing -- CHRISTINE V. MCDONALD & CAMPBELL J. MCROBBIE: 7.3 Utilising Argumentation to Teach Nature of Science -- DAVID GEELAN: 7.4 Teacher Explanations -- MARÍA PILAR JIMÉNEZ-ALEIXANDRE & BLANCA PUIG: 7.5 Argumentation, Evidence Evaluation and Critical Thinking -- JOHN R. STAVER: 7.6 Constructivism and Realism: Dueling Paradigms -- MICHIEL VAN EIJCK: 7.7 Capturing the Dynamics of Science in Science Education -- FOUAD ABD-EL-KHALICK: 7.8 Nature of Science in Science Education: Toward a Coherent Framework for Synergistic Research and Development -- Section 8: Out-of-School Learning -- JOHN H. FALK & LYNN D. DIERKING: 8.1 Lifelong Science Learning for Adults: The Role of Free-Choice Experiences -- JUSTIN DILLON: 8.2 Science, the Environment and Education Beyond the Classroom -- J.

RANDY MCGINNIS, EMILY HESTNESS, KELLY RIEDINGER, PHYLLIS KATZ, GILI MARBACH-AD & AMY DAI: 8.3 Informal Science Education in Formal Science Teacher Preparation -- TALI TAL: 8.4 Out-of-School: Learning Experiences, Teaching and Students' Learning -- PETER AUBUSSON, JANETTE GRIFFIN & MATTHEW KEARNEY: 8.5 Learning Beyond the Classroom: Implications for School Science -- KOSHI DHINGRA: 8.6 Science Stories on Television -- PREETI GUPTA & JENNIFER D. ADAMS: 8.7 Museum-University Partnerships for Preservice Science Education -- JENNIFER D. ADAMS: 8.8 Community Science: Capitalizing on Local Ways of Enacting Science in Science Education -- DAVID ANDERSON & KIRSTEN M. ELLENBOGEN: 8.9 Learning Science in Informal Contexts - Epistemological Perspectives and Paradigms -- Section 9: Learning Environments -- BARRY J. FRASER: 9.1 Classroom Learning Environments: Retrospect, Context and Prospect -- THEO WUBBELS & MIEKE BREKELMANS: 9.2 Teacher-Students Relationships in the Classroom -- JILL M. ALDRIDGE: 9.3 Outcomes-Focused Learning Environments -- DAVID B. ZANDVLIET: 9.4 ICT Learning Environments and Science Education: Perception to Practice -- REBEKAH K. NIX: 9.5 Cultivating Constructivist Classrooms through Evaluation of an Integrated Science Learning Environment -- CATHERINE MARTIN-DUNLOP & BARRY J. FRASER: 9.6 Using a Learning Environment Perspective in Evaluating an Innovative Science Course for Prospective Elementary Teachers -- DONNA DEGENNARO: 9.7 Evolving Learning Designs and Emerging Technologies -- JEFFREY P. DORMAN: 9.8 The Impact of Student Clustering on the Results of Statistical Tests -- Section 10: Literacy and Language -- NANCY R. ROMANCE & MICHAEL R. VITALE: 10.1 Interdisciplinary Perspectives Linking Science and Literacy in Grades K-5: Implications for Policy and Practice -- BRIAN HAND & VAUGHAN PRAIN: 10.