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Faculty Member, Faculty of Education
Deputy Programme Manager for Master's Courses (MEd, MPhil in Education)
Homerton College
About
Dr Keith S Taber
Keith Taber trained as a graduate teacher of chemistry and physics, and taught sciences in comprehensive secondary schools in England. He moved into further education where he taught physics and chemistry to A level, science studies to adult students, and research methods on an undergraduate education programme. He acted as the mentor for trainee science teachers on placement at the college. Whilst working as a teacher he earned his masters degree for research into girls' under-representation in physics and his doctorate for research into conceptual development in chemistry. He joined the Faculty of Education in 1999. Please refer to Keith Taber's web pages:
http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/kst24/
https://camtools.cam.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/%7Ekst24/index.html
Keith Taber teaches in the Faculty of Education at Cambridge. He was formerly the Manager for the part-time PhD programme in education. He is currently part of the management team for Master's programme in Education (M.Phil. and M.Ed degrees).
JoTTER: He is currently editing the Journal of Trainee Teacher Educational Research, an on-line journal to highlight some of the practitioner research undertaken by graduate trainee teachers whilst working on professional placements in schools.
http://jotter.educ.cam.ac.uk/
He is the editor of
Chemistry Education Research and Practice
Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry
free access on the web at
http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/rp/about.asp
He is on the editorial boards of
International Journal of Science Education
Journal of Science Teacher Education
Foundations of Chemistry
Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal
School Science Review
Education in Chemistry
and he is the Book reviews editor for
Studies in Science Education
He is the Book Reviews editor of
Teacher Development: An international journal of teachers' professional development
Publishers of educational books for review who wish to notify new titles can send information to kst24@cam.ac.uk. Colleagues working in teacher education and development, who are interested in reviewing books for the journal, should send a brief c.v. with details of their professional experience and areas of expertise to Sarah Delmas at editing@mail.com
https://camtools.cam.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/~kst24/teacher-development
Dr. Taber was the RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Teacher Fellow for 2000-1, undertaking a project on Challenging Chemical Misconceptions
http://www.chemsoc.org/networks/learnnet/miscon2.htm
He was the CERG (Chemical Education Research Group) Lecturer for 2000. He wrote a column (Reflections on Teaching and Learning Physics) for the journal Physics Education over a period of 6 years. He led the Cambridge project on teaching about ideas and evidence in science for the National KS3 Strategy.
He has published widely on topics in science education: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/kst24/Publications.html
https://camtools.cam.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/%7Ekst24/publications.html
Keith considers himself a constructivist in education, but is aware that this term is understood in various ways...see
https://camtools.cam.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/%7Ekst24/constructivism.ht
He welcomes enquiries from potential graduate students wishing to pursue research into teaching and learning science. Students are admitted at M.Phil., or if already suitably qualified, at probationary Ph.D. level (see information about informal enquiries and admission for post-graduate research in science education).
http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/kst24/ResearchOpportunities.html
Current research projects include:
ECLIPSE - Exploring Conceptual Learning, Integration and Progression in Science Education: this is an umbrella project for a number of related research interests:
These includes the 'Understanding Science Project' which is informing development of
The Science Learning Doctor approach which links work on student alternative conceptions (misconceptions) in science with diagnostic assessment
https://camtools.cam.ac.uk/wiki/eclipse/Eclipse.html
LASAR: Learning about Science and Religion
http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/kst24/projects/LASAR/LASARProject.html
epiSTEMe: Effecting Principled Improvement in STEM Education
http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/episteme/
Young Children's Reasoning about Everyday Chemistry
http://sites.google.com/site/instructlab/
Amazon page:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Keith-Taber/e/B0041BV2LK/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
A list of Education journals may be found here (this is not claimed to be a comprehensive list, but a personal tool - 'under development' - that I make available in case useful to others):
https://camtools.cam.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/~kst24/education-journals.
Call for papers on 'Innovation in Education': see https://camtools.cam.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/~kst24/ceps-journal.html
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