Abstract
Since the eighth curriculum reform of basic education started in 2001 in Mainland China, many changes and innovations have occurred in science education practice and research. This chapter presented the status of science education research (SER) in Mainland China. In order to provide an overview of SER, four Chinese core journals that focused on physics education, chemistry education, biology education, and geography education, respectively, were selected to review and analysis the papers in 2011 and 2012; the results showed the affiliation of researchers and research topics. Moreover, this chapter introduces SER in Mainland China from research fields such as curriculum and textbook, science teaching, science learning, teachers’ professional development, scientific inquiry, and learning progressions and students’ domain-specific cognitive development. In the research fields, the representative studies in physics, chemistry, and biology education were reviewed, because the SER in Mainland China is closely integrated with separate science subjects.
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