Prof. Edgar W Jenkins
Research Professor
Tel: +44 (0)113 3434561
Room: ESC 8.76
Email: e.w.jenkins@education.leeds.ac.uk
Research Professor Emeritus. Research interests are History and politics of science education; policy and practice in science education; public understanding of science/scientific literacy; technology education.
Member of CSSME.
Interests
Edgar Jenkins is Emeritus Professor and, until 2000, was Professor of Science Education Policy. He is a former Head of the School of Education (1980-84 and 1991-5) and was Director of the Centre for Studies in Science and Mathematics Education from 1997-2000. He has taught chemistry and biology in secondary/high schools and been heavily involved in training science graduates for the teaching profession. He has extensive experience of assessment and examining in science, and has acted as a consultant on a range of science education issues to a number of governments or their agencies. He is the author or co-author of many books, articles or research papers, and from 1984 to 1997 edited the international research review journal, Studies in Science Education. He is also the Editor of recent volumes of the UNESCO series, Innovations in Science and Technology Education , and serves on the Editorial Boards of several international research journals concerned with science education. He is a member of the Association for Science Education, the European Science Educational Research Association, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He serves on the Education Committee of the Royal Society of London. His research interests in science education policy extend from historical studies to empirical analysis of the interactions between policy and science teachers' daily work. The latter, in particular, has important implications for those seeking to change science teachers' practice and to raise the standards of work in the schools. He has also published work concerned with the public understanding of science. Principal books include: From Armstrong to Nuffield (1979), Technological Revolution? (1986), Inarticulate Science? (1993), Investigations by Order (1996), From Steps to Stages (1998), Learning From Others (2000) and Science Education, Policy Professionalism and Change (2001).
Selected Publications
PAPERS
Jenkins, E.W. (2007). "School Science: A questionable construct?". Journal of Curriculum Studies, 39, 265-282. Read Abstract.
Jenkins, E.W> (2007). "School science; A questionable construct?". Journal of curriculuM Studies, 39, 265-282.
Jenkins, E.W. (2007). "School science: a questionable construct?". Journal of Curriculum Studies, 39, 265-282scien.
Jenikins, E.W. (2006). "The Student Voice and School Science Education". Studies in Science Education, 42, 49-88. Read Abstract.
Jenkins,E.W. and Pell, R.G. (2006). "'Me and the environmental challenges': A survey of English secondary school students' attitudes towards the environment". International Journal of Scienec Education, 28, 765-780. Read Abstract.
Jenkins, E.W. (2006). "School Science and Citizenship: Whose science and whose citizenship?". Curiculum Journal, 17 (3), 197-211.
Jenkins, E.W. (2006). "Me and the environmental challenges: a survey of english secondary school students towards the environment". International Journal of Science Education, 28 (7), 765-80.
Jenkins, E.W. (2005). "Important but not for me: Students' attitudes towards secondary school science in England". Research in Science and Technology Education, 23 (1), 41-57. Read Abstract.
Jenkin,s E.W. (2005). "The student voice in science education: research and issues". Journal of Baltic Science Education, 7 (1), 22-30.
Jenkins, E.W. (2004). "From option to compulsion: school science teaching 1954-2004". School Science Review, 85 (313, 33-40.
Jenkins, E.W. (2003). "Environmental education and the public understanding of science". Frontiers in ecology and the Environment, 1 (8), 437-443.
Jenkins, E.W. (Ed.) (2003). "School science: too much, too little or a problem with science itself?". Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 3 (2), 269-74. Read Abstract.
Extended list of publications.
This page last updated by Edgar Jenkins on 14th June 2007