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Overview

Vaughan Prain is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a focus on Education and Developmental and Educational Psychology. Their research primarily revolves around science education and pedagogy, innovative teaching methods, and cognitive learning processes.

The main fields of study in which Vaughan Prain is active include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Subfields of study are:

  • Education
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Literature and Literary Theory

The core topics of Vaughan Prain's research encompass:

  • Science Education and Pedagogy
  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Art Education and Development
  • Educational Strategies and Epistemologies

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Vaughan Prain include:

  • Using representations for teaching and learning in science, 2023, eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania)
  • Picturing evaporation: learning Science literacy through a particle representation, 2023, Own your potential (DEAKIN)
  • Primary Connections: reforming science teaching in Australian primary schools, 2023, Research Online (Edith Cowan University)
  • An interdisciplinary approach to primary school mathematics and science learning, 2021, International Journal of Science Education
  • Aesthetics, affect, and making meaning in science education: an introduction, 2021, International Journal of Science Education

Vaughan Prain frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • International Journal of Science Education
  • Research in Science Education
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania)
  • Own your potential (DEAKIN)

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Russell Tytler
  • Lihua Xu
  • Chris Speldewinde
  • Joanne Mulligan
  • Melinda Kirk

Best Publications

  • Drawing to Learn in Science.

    Shaaron E. Ainsworth;Vaughan Prain;Russell Tytler

  • Using the science writing heuristic as a tool for learning from laboratory investigations in secondary science

    Carolyn W. Keys;Brian Hand;Vaughan Prain;Susan Collins

  • An Exploratory Study of Teachers’ and Students’ Use of Multi‐modal Representations of Concepts in Primary Science

    Vaughan R Prain;Bruce Gordon Waldrip

  • Using Multi-Modal Representations to Improve Learning in Junior Secondary Science.

    Bruce Waldrip;Vaughan Prain;Jim Carolan

  • A writing in science framework designed to enhance science literacy

    Brian Hand;Vaughan Prain;Chris Lawrence;Larry D. Yore

  • Constructing representations to learn in science

    Russell Tytler;Vaughan Prain;Peter Hubber;Bruce Waldrip

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

    Vaughan Prain;Russell Tytler

  • Teachers implementing writing-to-learn strategies in junior secondary science: A case study

    Brian. Hand;Vaughan R. Prain

  • Writing for learning in secondary science: Rethinking practices

    Vaughan Prain;Brian Hand

  • Learning from Writing in Secondary Science : Some theoretical and practical implications

    Vaughan Prain

  • Writing and Learning in the Science Classroom

    Carolyn S. Wallace;Brian B. Hand;Vaughan Prain

  • Message from the “Island group”: What is literacy in science literacy?

    Brian M. Hand;Donna E. Alvermann;James Gee;Barbara J. Guzzetti

  • Personalised learning: lessons to be learnt

    Vaughan R Prain;Peter John Cox;Craig Geoffrey Deed;Jeffrey Paul Dorman

  • Students' Perceptions of Writing for Learning in Secondary School Science.

    Vaughan Prain;Brian Hand

  • Learning Junior Secondary Science through Multi-Modal Representations

    Bruce. Waldrip;Vaughan R. Prain;James Francis. Carolan

  • Multiple Representation in Learning About Evaporation

    Vaughan Prain;Russell Tytler;Suzanne Peterson

  • Scientists as Writers

    Larry D. Yore;Brian M. Hand;Vaughan Prain

  • WRITING FOR LEARNING IN SCIENCE: A SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF SIX STUDIES

    Murat Gunel;Brian Hand;Vaughan Prain

  • Representational Issues in Students Learning About Evaporation

    Russell Tytler;Vaughan Prain;Suzanne Peterson

  • Exploring students' responses to conceptual questions when engaged with planned writing experiences: A study with year 10 science students

    Brian Hand;Liesl Hohenshell;Vaughan Prain

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell Tytler
Russell Tytler Deakin University
Brian Hand
Brian Hand University of Iowa
Larry D. Yore
Larry D. Yore University of Victoria
Christopher Hickey
Christopher Hickey National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Jan H. van Driel
Jan H. van Driel University of Melbourne
Richard Lehrer
Richard Lehrer Vanderbilt University
Leona Schauble
Leona Schauble Vanderbilt University
Donna E. Alvermann
Donna E. Alvermann University of Georgia
James Paul Gee
James Paul Gee Arizona State University

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