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Russell Tytler

Russell Tytler

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
40
Citations
8893
World Ranking
5262
National Ranking
376

Overview

Russell Tytler is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia and is active in the fields of social sciences and psychology. Their research contributions primarily focus on education, developmental and educational psychology, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology. The scientist's work centers on several main topics including science education and pedagogy, innovative teaching and learning methods, educational strategies and epistemologies, animal and plant science education, science education and perceptions, educator training and historical pedagogy, and mathematics education and teaching techniques.

Frequent publication venues for Russell Tytler's research include:

  • Research in Science Education
  • International Journal of Science Education
  • Own your potential (DEAKIN)
  • International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education
  • Frontiers in Education

Their collaborative network includes several frequent co-authors:

  • Peta White
  • Vaughan Prain
  • Saeed Salimpour
  • Melinda Kirk
  • Joseph Paul Ferguson

Among noted recent publications are:

  • "Picturing evaporation: learning Science literacy through a particle representation," 2023, published in Own your potential (DEAKIN)
  • "An interdisciplinary approach to primary school mathematics and science learning," 2021, published in International Journal of Science Education
  • "Aesthetics, affect, and making meaning in science education: an introduction," 2021, published in International Journal of Science Education
  • "Theorising Learning in Science Through Integrating Multimodal Representations," 2021, published in Research in Science Education
  • "Cosmos visualized: Development of a qualitative framework for analyzing representations in cosmology education," 2021, published in Physical Review Physics Education Research

In addition to journal articles, Russell Tytler has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Springer Nature:

  • "Innovative Approaches to Socioscientific Issues and Sustainability Education," 2022

Tytler's research reflects a multidisciplinary approach combining aspects of science education with cognitive and social science perspectives. Their work involves educational psychology and pedagogical strategies, contributing to the understanding of how interdisciplinary methods can support learning in science and mathematics education.

Best Publications

  • Drawing to Learn in Science.

    Shaaron E. Ainsworth;Vaughan Prain;Russell Tytler

  • Re-Imagining Science Education: Engaging Students in Science for Australia's Future

    Russell Tytler

  • STEM: country comparisons: international comparisons of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. Final report.

    Simon Marginson;Russell Tytler;Brigid Freeman;Kelly Roberts

  • Opening up pathways : engagement in STEM across the primary-secondary school transition

    Russell Tytler;Jonathan Osborne;Gaye Williams;Kristin Tytler

  • Constructing representations to learn in science

    Russell Tytler;Vaughan Prain;Peter Hubber;Bruce Waldrip

  • Teaching and Learning about Force with a Representational Focus: Pedagogy and Teacher Change

    Peter Hubber;Russell Tytler;Filocha Haslam

  • Student Attitudes and Aspirations Towards Science

    Russell Tytler;Jonathan Osborne

  • Learning Through Constructing Representations in Science: A framework of representational construction affordances

    Vaughan Prain;Russell Tytler

  • A comparison of year 1 and year 6 students’ conceptions of evaporation and condensation: dimensions of conceptual progression

    Russell Tytler

  • Dimensions of evidence, the public understanding of science and science education.

    Russell Tytler;Sandra Duggan;Richard Gott

  • Multiple Representation in Learning About Evaporation

    Vaughan Prain;Russell Tytler;Suzanne Peterson

  • Representational Issues in Students Learning About Evaporation

    Russell Tytler;Vaughan Prain;Suzanne Peterson

  • The age of STEM : educational policy and practice across the world in science, technology, engineering and mathematics

    Brigid Freeman;Simon Marginson;Russell Tytler

  • The Nature of Students' Informal Science Conceptions.

    Russell Tytler

  • STEM Education for the Twenty-First Century

    Russell Tytler

  • Children's conceptions of air pressure: exploring the nature of conceptual change

    Russell Tytler

  • A Framework for Re‐thinking Learning in Science from Recent Cognitive Science Perspectives

    Russell Tytler;Vaughan Prain

  • Attitudes, identity, and aspirations toward science

    Russell Tytler

  • An International View of STEM Education

    Brigid Freeman;Simon Marginson;Russell Tytler

  • Drawing to reason and learn in science

    Russell Tytler;Vaughan Prain;George Aranda;Joseph Ferguson

  • Picturing evaporation : learning science literacy through a particle representation

    Russell. Tytler;Vaughan. Prain;Suzanne Holly. Peterson

  • A Curriculum Innovation Framework for Science, Technology and Mathematics Education

    Russell Tytler;David Symington;Craig Smith

  • Ways forward for primary science education : a review commissioned by the Swedish National Agency for Education

    Russell Tytler

Frequent Co-Authors

Vaughan Prain
Vaughan Prain Deakin University
Simon Marginson
Simon Marginson University of Oxford
Jan H. van Driel
Jan H. van Driel University of Melbourne
Jonathan Osborne
Jonathan Osborne Stanford University
Andrew Day
Andrew Day University of Melbourne
Richard Lehrer
Richard Lehrer Vanderbilt University
Leona Schauble
Leona Schauble Vanderbilt University

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