Professor John T Leach

Dean of Education, Social Sciences and Law; Professor of Science Education

Interests

I teach on the secondary science PGCE course, which provides professional training to UK teachers, as well as on Masters and Doctoral courses in science education.

My research focuses on the design, implementation and evaluation of science teaching, and I Co-Direct the Leeds Institute for Science Teaching Design (LISTeD).

I have also worked on student's images of science and the implications of these for the teaching and learning of science. I am very interested to supervise research degrees in these areas.

 

Selected Publications

PAPERS

Leach, J., Ametller, J., Scott, P. (Forthcoming). "Establishing and communicating knowledge about teaching and learning scientific content: the role of design briefs". Presented at ESERA 2009 (Istanbul), x, x. (PDF File, 184K).

Ruthven, K., Laborde, C., Leach, J., Tiberghien, A. (2009). "Design tools in didactical research: instrumenting the epistemological and cognitive aspects of the design of teaching sequences". Educational Researcher, 38(5), 329-342.

Leach, J., Ametller, J. and Scott, P. (2009). "The relationship of theory and practice in designing, implementing and evaluating teaching sequences: learning from examples that don’t work". Education et la Didactique, 2(3), 139-161.

Ametller, J., Leach, J. and Scott, P. (2007). "Using perspectives on subject learning to inform the design of subject teaching: an example from science education.". The Curriculum Journal, 18(4), 479-492.

Leach, J. (2006). "Epistemologial perspectives in research on teaching and learning science". Paper presented at AERA, San Francisco, April 2006, x, x. (PDF File, 227K).

Leach, J. and Scott, P. (2003). "Individual and sociocultural perspectives on learning in science education.". Science and Education, 12(1), 91-113.

Leach, J., Hind, A. and Ryder, J. (2003). "Designing and evaluating short teaching interventions about the epistemology of science in high school classrooms". Science Education, 87(3), 831-848.

Leach, J. and Scott, P. (2002). "Designing and evaluating science teaching sequences: An approach drawing upon the concept of learning demand and a social constructivist perspective on learning.". Studies in Science Education, 38, 115-142.

Leach, J. (2002). "Teachers’ views on the future of the secondary science curriculum". School Science Review, 83(304), 43-50.

Séré, M-G., Fernandez-Gonzalez, M., Gonzalez-Garcia, F., de Manuel, E., Gallegos, J., Perales, J. and Leach, J. (2001). "Images of science linked to labwork: A survey of secondary school and university students". Research In Science Education, 31, 499-523.

BOOKS

Millar, R., Leach, J., Osborne, J. and Ratcliffe, M. (2006). "Improving Subject Teaching: Lessons from Research in Science Education". London: RoutledgeFalmer.

Millar, R., Leach, J. and Osborne, J. (Editors) (2000). "Improving science education: the contribution of research". Buckingham: Open University Press.

Extended list of publications.

This page last updated by John Leach on 7th September 2009

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