Teacher Empathy and Science
Education: A Collective Case Study

Vishal Arghode; Bugrahan Yalvac; Jeffrey Liew

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2013.921a

Teacher Empathy and Science Education: A Collective Case Study

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Vishal Arghode ¹, Bugrahan Yalvac ¹ ^* , Jeffrey Liew ¹

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¹ Texas A&M University, USA^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

To initiate dialogue on empathy in science classroom, its role in science teaching, and to encourage science teacher education researchers and faculty to consider the role of empathy in science teaching, we conducted an instrumental collective case study with five science education graduate students at a Research-I university in the US. Data were collected through face-to-face semi-structured interviews. Within-case and across-case analyses were performed to interpret the data from the individual interviews and compare them with one and another. Our findings collectively speak to our participants’ perspectives of empathy in science teaching. Finally, we discuss implications for teacher education and professional development and the need for learning sciences and science education research to systematically examine teacher empathy and student learning.

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empathy
teaching
science education
case study
graduate students

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2013, Volume 9, Issue 2, 89-99

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Arghode, V., Yalvac, B., & Liew, J. (2013). Teacher Empathy and Science Education: A Collective Case Study. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 9(2), 89-99. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.921a

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Arghode V, Yalvac B, Liew J. Teacher Empathy and Science Education: A Collective Case Study. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2013;9(2):89-99. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.921a

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Arghode V, Yalvac B, Liew J. Teacher Empathy and Science Education: A Collective Case Study. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2013;9(2), 89-99. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.921a

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Arghode, Vishal, Bugrahan Yalvac, and Jeffrey Liew. "Teacher Empathy and Science Education: A Collective Case Study". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2013 9 no. 2 (2013): 89-99. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.921a

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Arghode, V., Yalvac, B., and Liew, J. (2013). Teacher Empathy and Science Education: A Collective Case Study. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 9(2), pp. 89-99. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.921a

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Arghode, Vishal et al. "Teacher Empathy and Science Education: A Collective Case Study". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 9, no. 2, 2013, pp. 89-99. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.921a