Handbook of Research on Science Education

About the Authors

Sandra K. AbellSandra K. Abell is professor of science education at the University of Missouri-Columbia, US, where she directs the university's Science Education Center. Her research interests focus on teacher learning throughout the career span and across the grade levels. She is a past President of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST).

Glen S. AikenheadI have always embraced a humanistic perspective on science, as a research chemist in Canada and as a science teacher at international schools in Germany and Switzerland. This perspective was enhanced during my graduate studies at Harvard University in the late 1960s and has since then guided my research in science education at the University of ...