Mr Jon James

Research summary

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Biography

Jon joined the GSoE in 2011 after working in a broad and varied range of educational settings. He has had positions of excellent teacher and head of science in secondary schools, and has carried out Local Authority advisory work, first as part of the science advisory team in Oxfordshire, and then as teaching and learning advisor with North Somerset. He is also an examiner for the International Baccalaureate Organisation. In 2009 he completed the M.Sc in Science Education at the University of Bristol where his dissertation looked at the impact of deficits in functional literacy on the development of scientific ...

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Selected publications

• Pabuccu, A, Erduran, S & James, J, 2012, ‘Heating up the discussion: promoting and investigating argumentation in the context of chemistry stories. In, Z. Karadag & Y. Devecioglu-Kaymakci (Eds.), Proceedings of First International Dynamic, Explorative and Active Learning Conference, pp. 43-58. Bayburt, Turkey. (ISBN:978-605-61893-4-0)’.
• James, J, 2016, ‘Less use of scientific terminology in the primary school classroom: a means of concept development?’.

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