Mrs Rebecca Cooper - Researcher Profile

Biography

Rebecca is a science educator in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. She works with preservice and inservice science teachers and her research interests include; considering how science teachers and science teacher educators develop pedagogical knowledge throughout their career, improving the quality of science teaching to increase student engagement and working with teachers on promoting values in their science teaching in an effort to better understand the development of scientific literacy with students. Prior to working at Monash University, Rebecca taught Physics, Science and Mathematics in secondary schools for many years.

Research & Supervision Interests

• Pedagogy in Science Teacher Education
• Improving the quality of science teaching to increase student engagement
• Promoting scientific literacy

Qualifications

MASTERS OF MATHAMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2006

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2000

Publications

Book Chapters

Keast, S., Cooper, R., 2012, Articulating our values to develop our pedagogy of science teacher education, in Self-Studies of Science Teacher Education Practices, eds Shawn M. Bullock and Tom Russell, Springer, The Netherlands, pp. 65-83.

Keast, S., Cooper, R., 2011, Developing the knowledge base of preservice science teachers: Starting the path towards expertise using slowmation, in The Professional Knowledge Base of Science Teaching, eds Deborah Corrigan, Justin Dillon and Richard Gunstone, Springer, The Netherlands, pp. 259-277.

Cooper, R., 2010, Section 6: Shifting science, changing teachers, engaging students, in Looking into Practice. Cases of Science Teachers' Professional Growth, eds Amanda Berry and Stephen Keast, Monash University and The Catholic Education Office, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 75-76.

Cooper, R., 2009, Making Real World Links, in Looking into practice: Cases of science teachersa?? professional growth, eds Amanda Berry and Stephen Keast, Catholic Education Office and Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia, pp. 54-55.

Journal Articles

Loughran, J.J., Berry, A.K., Cooper, R., Keast, S., Hoban, G., 2012, Foreword: Preservice teachers learning about teaching for conceptual change through slowmation, Asia Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching [P], vol 13, issue 1, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Tai Po Hong Kong, pp. 1-28.

Keast, S., Cooper, R., 2010, Doing the opposite leads to success, Teacher [P], vol March, Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell Vic Australia, pp. 28-29.

Keast, S., Cooper, R., 2010, Independent learners, Teacher [P], vol April, Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell Vic Australia, pp. 22-23.

Keast, S., Cooper, R., 2010, Linking for learning, Teacher [P], vol May, Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell Vic Australia, p. 22.

Keast, S., Cooper, R., 2010, Make the links, Teacher [P], vol August, Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell Vic Australia, pp. 20-21.

Keast, S., Cooper, R., 2010, One step backward, two steps forward, Teacher [P], vol October, Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell Vic Australia, pp. 20-21.

Keast, S., Cooper, R., Berry, A., Loughran, J., Hoban, G., 2010, Slowmation as a pedagogical scaffolding for improving science teaching and learning, Brunei International Journal of Science and Mathematics, vol 2, issue 1, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei, pp. 1-15.

Keast, S., Cooper, R., 2010, Teaching, and really teaching, Teacher [P], vol September, Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell Vic Australia, pp. 24-25.

Keast, S., Cooper, R., 2010, What is it that teachers know?, Teacher [P], vol November, Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell Vic Australia, pp. 18-19.

Keast, S., Cooper, R., 2010, Who is science for?, Teacher [P], vol July, Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell Vic Australia, pp. 24-25.

Keast, S., Cooper, R., 2009, Another string to your bow, Teacher [P], vol December, Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell Vic Australia, pp. 18-19.

Cooper, R., Keast, S., 2009, Beyond belief: developing science teacher education, Issues [P], vol September, Control Publications Pty Ltd, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 44-47.

Cooper, R., 2009, Change and challenge, Teacher [P], vol September, Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell Vic Australia, pp. 42-43.

Keast, S., Cooper, R., 2009, Less is more?, Teacher [P], vol October, Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell Vic Australia, pp. 18-19.

Corrigan, D.J., Cooper, R., 2009, Real contexts, real learning, Teacher [P], vol June/July, Australian Council for Educational Research, Australia, pp. 42-43.

Keast, S., Cooper, R., 2009, Risk: not so very hard, after all, Teacher [P], vol November, Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell Vic Australia, pp. 20-21.

Keast, S., Cooper, R., 2009, Thinking about thinking, Teacher [P], vol Jan/Feb, Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell Vic Australia, pp. 22-23.

Conference Proceedings

Lancaster, G.R., Cooper, R., 2012, Team teaching evaluating benefits and challeges for teachers in a senior college, 43rd Annual ASERA Conference, 27-30 June 2012, Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA), Australia, p. 54.

Cooper, R., 2010, Experienced science educators developing pedagogical content knowledge, Proceedings of ASERA 2010, Australasian Science Education Research Association, Australia, p. 32.

Corrigan, D., Cooper, R., Keast, S., 2010, Expert science teachers notions of scientific literacy, Proceedings of ASERA 2010, Australasian Science Education Research Association, Australia, p. 32.

Corrigan, D., Cooper, R., Keast, S., King, D., 2010, Expert teachers notions of scientific literacy, Proceedings of the STEM in Education Conference 2010, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in Education, Australia, p. 26.

Cooper, R., Keast, S., 2010, Science education: On course with our course, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 19-22 January 2010, SMTE, Taiwan, p. 78.

Corrigan, D., Gunstone, R., Cooper, R., 2010, The development, implementation and evaluation of an intensive system-wide professional learning program for elementary science teachers, Proceedings of 2010 Annual International Conference of National Association for Research in Science Teaching, 21 - 24 March 2010, National Association for Research in Science Teaching, USA, p. 196.

Corrigan, D., Gunstone, R., Cooper, R., 2010, The development, implementation and evaluation of an intensive system-wide professional learning program for primary science teachers, Conference Proceedings of XIV IOSTE 2010, 13-18 June 2010, IRI UL, Institute for Innovation and Development of University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, pp. 286-295.

Cooper, R., Keast, S., 2008, Linking the goals of teacher education with the challenges of teaching preservice teachers, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Self-Study of Teacher Education Practice, 3 August 2008 to August 2008, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls USA, pp. 77-81.