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Electronic
Journal of
Science
Education ISSN
1087-3430 Vol. 2 No.1
September 1997
John R. Cannon, Editor
David T. Crowther, Associate Editor
University of Nevada, Reno
"Go Pack"
- Thank you for
your interest in the Electronic Journal of Science Education the
only
journal of its kind devoted to the timely sharing of science education issues via the
World Wide Web and E-mail. The editors and review board hope you find the enclosed
articles academically and professionally valuable.
It's a new year...and bit of a new look for
the EJSE. This issue begins our second year thanks to
our review board, authors, and Internet readers. We hope this new year
brings more innovative ideas
and articles to the EJSE.
And...we are also proud to report that the
EJSE subscription rates will remain the same in 1997-98
as they did in 1996-97. . . FREE!
Photo courtesy of NASA at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/marsnews/img/
Photo lower left courtesy of NASA at
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/AS11/10075247.jpg
The first issue of the
EJSE began with the words, "It's a new dawn..." 
We
featured another famous
NASA photo, Earthrise. Much has developed in technology
since
1969 with the astronauts of Apollo 11 landing on the moon. Even
though
Viking 1 first orbited Mars in 1975, space technology has continued
to
evolve to the point where young engineers, many of whom were probably
exposed elementary and secondary sciences using Elementary Science
Study(ESS), Science-A Process Approach(S-APA), or Science
Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) curriculum materials. Little
did their teachers know that,
perhaps one day, a budding scientist or engineer in the third grade
would become part of the
Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997.
I might suggest that scholarly electronic publishing
has gone through a similar evolution -- from
largely text-only versions of manuscripts, often delivered via e-mail
or ftp, to World Wide Web
pages, complete with color graphics, animation and audio, ever increasing
in their style and
sophistication.
The EJSE is proud to be at the forefront
of this new technology in offering scholarly science
education publications to its readers. We plan to continue
to bring our readers science education
and related articles in '97-98. We also are planning for theme
issues this year, so please stay
tuned and on-line for more information.
Volume 2 (1997-1998) of the EJSE includes three articles discussing science education issues
from various facets. The article A Multiple Perspective Analysis of the Role of Language in
Inquiry Science Learning: To Build a Tower investigates research in a new light. One reviewer
commented:
- "...this is a helpful step in understanding how elementary school students
make sense of
science and technology experiences. I especially like the idea of examining the same
evidence from a number of different theoretical perspectives."
Polish Secondary Students And Teachers, reviews and discusses ecological beliefs and concerns
closely held by a large segment of the Polish citizenry. It makes clear the continued importance of
evolving environmental policy, science education, and quality of life for people world-wide.
Article three, Elementary and Secondary Students’
Perceptions Toward Science:
Correlations with Gender, Ethnicity, Ability, Grade, and Science
Achievement brings together
and discusses research involving previously individually investigated
factors, such as gender, and