caa a22 4500 477077579 CHVBK 20180405111442.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19961201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF03173739 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF03173739 Breaking the cycle: Preparing elementary teachers to teach science [Elektronische Daten] [Judith Mulholland, John Wallace] This Australian study describes the experiences of five mature-age preservice teachers in a semester unit of science education. The unit was designed to help teachers examine and make explicit their ideas about science and science teaching and consider ways in which they might put those ideas into practice. The preservice teachers expressed a need for a supportive learning environment in which concepts were built gradually and introduced using concrete examples. Previous science experience was found to be a major influence on the attitudes the participants brought to the present course. Changing attitudes to science during the preservice experience is seen as an important step in breaking the cycle of the impoverished state of elementary science. Springer Netherlands, 1996 Mulholland Judith Australian Catholic University, McCauley Campus, Queensland, Australia aut Wallace John Science and Mathematics Education Centre, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, 6001, Perth, WA, Australia aut Journal of Elementary Science Education Springer Netherlands 8/1(1996-12-01), 17-38 1090-185X 8:1<17 1996 8 13270 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03173739 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03173739 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mulholland Judith Australian Catholic University, McCauley Campus, Queensland, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wallace John Science and Mathematics Education Centre, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, 6001, Perth, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Elementary Science Education Springer Netherlands 8/1(1996-12-01), 17-38 1090-185X 8:1<17 1996 8 13270 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer