Describing the Landscape of Contextualized Science Education: A Bibliometric Network Analysis

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  In Roundtable Session: Books and Literacy in Science Education (Table 8)

Abstract

Science education regularly sees new innovations that are resisted due to “innovation fatigue”. Couching new ideas as variations of known concepts may decrease resistance and ease teacher learning of new approaches. Contextualization, connecting science content to authentic contexts, is one theme many recent innovations are founded on. This bibliometric network analysis of 935 academic papers describes the landscape of contextualized science education research and the clusters of ideas that have evolved within. Each cluster is described using bibliometric and qualitative data. Findings can be used to identify intellectual pathways between clusters and to magnify similar research across clusters. The methods can be used to describe other intellectual landscapes in education.

Authors

• Michael Giamellaro, Oregon State University
  Presenting Author

• Cory A. Buxton, Oregon State University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Joseph Taylor, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
  Non-Presenting Author

• Jean-Philippe Ayotte-Beaudet, Université de Sherbrooke
  Non-Presenting Author

• Kassandra L'Heureux, Université de Sherbrooke
  Non-Presenting Author

• Marie-Claude Beaudry, Université de Sherbrooke
  Non-Presenting Author

• Talal Alajmi, Oregon State University
  Non-Presenting Author