James Davis

• PhD
• Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology

This paper is a qualitative, practice based study describing the use of the Focus-Action-Reflection (FAR) Guide (Harrison & Treagust, 2000) to address the shortcomings of a pedagogical analogical model in Year 10 Science. The aim of this paper is to present my experience of the FAR Guide in relation to an analogical model that gave rise to perceive...

This paper proposes that the development of nursing leadership and the struggle for professionalisation from the time of the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century may be conceived as a series of products of constituent discourses. However, particular attention is focused on the concept of leadership as it pertains to the nursing pr...

Background. The introduction of a new information retrieval system for the use of health service staff at a large tertiary referral hospital provided an excellent opportunity for nurses to make greater use of evidence to inform their practice. However, the extent to which nurses were able to access the resource was unknown. Aim. The aim of the stud...

Science teachers are increasingly using internet sources for lesson planning, science content, and designing classroom activities. With the prevalence of disinformation online, there is potential for school students to learn ineffective internet search strategies and integrate disinformation into their knowledge. Science education fit for the futur...

Driving a shift in the way we think about entrepreneurial and teacher education, this book invites teachers to think and act as entrepreneurial innovators and lead meaningful change in everyday school contexts. How to Become an Entrepreneurial Teacher takes teachers through theory, entrepreneurial techniques, reflective practice and learning experi...

Bonne and Higgins (2022) explore game playing and fluctuations in emotional climate at a classroom level of analysis using a social and phenomenological orientation. My aim in this forum paper is to extend upon their work by exploring the nature of both formal game rules and practical game rules as reasoning-in-action where science reasoning may be...

Demands that Initial Teacher Education (ITE) prepare teachers who can equip students to be agile real-world problem solvers are frequent. Guidance about ITE integrated curriculum approaches to achieve this aim is harder to find, a significant gap given increasing time and policy pressures for ITE educators. Drawing from an Australian context, this...

The role of design in the exploration of integrated Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education has rapidly expanded in recent years. Design has made an important contribution by providing instructional scaffolds in synthesising knowledge from multiple disciplines to solve real-world problems. Despite the potential of Design-...

Integrated Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education is recognised as the latest development stage on the pathway to a highly capable future workforce, and is thus linked to a nation’s future development and prosperity. However, despite various appeals and efforts by the Australian Government, effective processes for constr...

Integrated STEM education is a novel and at times controversial approach to teaching, particularly in school systems such as China where there strong are traditions of teacher-directed learning. Implementation of integrated STEM education is influenced by teachers’ experiences of established and new teaching practices that shape what teachers may i...

Values and how values are created in science education are an under-researched field, which is problematic given the importance of epistemic values to the nature of science. From a sociological perspective, values are experienced as emotionally infused ideas with the power to influence choices and actions in everyday situations such as learning thr...

The science curriculum's potential for developing students' scientific literacy offers the ideal opportunity for addressing global concerns such as the 'post-truth' epidemic. In this article, we review the Year 10 Australian Curriculum: Science for its capacity to help students become producers and consumers of knowledge. We adopt a theoretical fra...

The aim of this chapter is to illustrate how everyday mundane actions in science classrooms may be understood as everyday dramatic performances that are most often taken-for-granted and imbued with emotive experiences. To describe these experiences a novel sociological concept of emotional energy (EE) is adopted. EE is an individual and collective...

Chiang, F-K., Du, J., Tang, J., Liu, Y., Jia, Y., Davis, J.P. (2021). Qualitative analysis of students’ emotional energy in STEM classes. Modern Distance Education Research,33(2):96-103. 江丰光,杜娟,唐家慧,刘彦秋,贾一丹,[澳]詹姆斯·P.戴维斯 (2021). STEM课堂中学生情感能量的质性分析[J]. 现代远程教育研究, 33(2):96-103. Abstract: STEM education has become the mainstream of interdisciplinary tea...

This chapter describes my pathway and experiences toward becoming an educator in entrepreneurial thinking. It is biographical and focuses on my teaching philosophy, teaching contexts, and my approaches to teaching entrepreneurial thinking and enterprise in teacher education programs. In becoming an educator I have built on a diverse collection of l...

Teaching science as part of STEAM education has gained momentum over the past decade with the aim of improving student engagement. STEAM education refers to the integration of science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics as a way of teaching that is led by authentic, and contextualised themes. Contemporary approaches to STEAM educatio...

Integrated STEM projects are an effective way to deliver a deep level of STEM education and in this paper, we look at a new Australian developed technology called Kitsi blocks (Kitsunei, 2019), which may be used to facilitate integrated STEM projects. This article is based on an evaluative research project looking into the application of digital te...

Background Understanding cultural diversity in STEM education is important for inclusivity and teaching STEM literacy for all. We explore diversity at a micro-cultural classroom level involving students’ emotional experiences and interactional practices as they engage with learning, which has received limited attention in naturalistic studies of ST...

This study addresses the need for innovative research approaches in science education for understanding better the inter-relationships between emotion and cognition in learning, using a sociological perspective. Our perspective draws upon the concept of emotional energy that is described as an outcome from successful social interactions during micr...

The aim of our study is to propose a gamification strategy for teaching SSI’s as a means for enhancing science literacy with a capacity for critical rationality. The theoretical framework that informs our teaching and research around SSI’s draws from a model of teaching objectives from techno-scientism to activist science education. We also draw up...

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) each have distinct epistemological foundations for the production of knowledge, yet a recent international trend in education is to integrate these fields as an approach to teaching and learning. According to the literature, integrated STEM education involves concurrent teaching of two or mor...

Amy Goods’s software review article V-Note: A video analysis tool for teacher | researchers stimulated our interest in adopting this software to understand social bonding dynamics in a group of 10th-grade science students’ during a science inquiry project. Three of us employed V-Note to analyze two video files for the same lesson in which the stude...

Connections between innovation policy and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education practices are poorly defined across a variety of national and international contexts. This disconnect is particularly evident in countries such as Australia that are not traditionally associated with an entrepreneurial culture. This study ex...

The use of mobile phones in classrooms for many schools remains a controversial issue. In our experience, it is still common that schools ban mobile phones from classrooms even where students may seek to use the phone for routine tasks such as the calculator functionality. In this paper, we argue that such blanket policies by school administrators...

In this chapter we describe a sociological model that illustrates the increasing complexity in our understandings of emotion, as it unfolds in late modernity, which better illustrates the character of emotional experiences. The ontological foundation of our work connects with ideas that were present but often neglected throughout modernity. For exa...

Our purpose in this chapter is to review a discerning selection of recent science ed-ucation research on the topic of emotions. Within the theme of theoretical foun-dations, we firstly discuss the big ideas influencing this body of literature that we describe in terms of ontology, epistemology and time; emotion and embodied ex-perience; mindfulness...

Historical and sociological accounts of events typically refer to abrupt macro-social changes that create discontinuity in social structures, thereby changing society. At a micro-social level of experience, events may also unfold that contribute to important localized change for the particular people involved. This study of a learning event is an o...

In this chapter, we present an original study of the flow of emotional energy that occurs during classroom practices associated with science demonstrations. We take the view that macro-social human practices, such as learning to teach sci-ence, are grounded in the micro-social processes that take shape in classroom in-teractions. Drawing on interac...

Science inquiry is an important part of educational reform focusing on improvements to pedagogy. Developing students' capacities and understandings about the design and conceptualization of scientific research informs contemporary curriculum and teaching practices. Although objectivity is regarded as a fundamental aspect of scientific research, lim...

The intent and content of teacher professional learning has changed in recent times to meet the demands of performativity. In this article, we offer and demonstrate a pragmatic way to map teacher professional learning that both meets current demands and secures a place for teacher-led catalytic learning. To achieve this, we position identified char...

This study illustrates analytical resources used in an ethnomethodological study of analogical reasoning as a collection of practices indigenous to the everyday science classroom. These tools included a social ontological perspective redefining our sense of human dualism and making it possible to see analogical reasoning from a new perspective. To...

The phenomenon of emotional experience and the relationship between emotion and human understanding about ourselves and our external environment has been broadly established over several centuries of inquiry. In contrast to this long standing phenomenon, science education researchers have only recently begun to explore the relationship between emot...

This internationally edited collection on emotions, aesthetics, and wellbeing emerged following an exploratory research workshop held in Luxembourg associated with the journal Cultural Studies of Science Education (CSSE). The workshop was entitled 'Innovation and collaboration in cultural studies of science education: Towards an international resea...

This study explores the emotional experiences of high school science students when thinking and learning with analogies. It develops innovative research methods and proposes a foundation for a new theory to explain how students learn with analogies. The thesis illustrates analogical thinking and learning by studying social interactions involving bo...

The contemporary policy environment across all education jurisdictions in Australia currently places ideologies of teacher quality and school leader autonomy at the leading edge of education reform. School leaders and teachers are being actively encouraged to seek ways of improving school wide outcomes by improving classroom practices. This paper a...

Previous research suggests that blood pressure falls acutely after ischemic stroke. We aimed to further characterize this fall with a statistical technique that allows the application of regression techniques to serial blood pressure outcome data. In a prospectively recruited ischemic stroke cohort, systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure...

Previous research has attempted to analyze the relationship between post-stroke hyperthermia and prognosis. These analyses have been hindered by a lack of information about the time course and determinants of temperature change after stroke. Serial temperatures were measured until 48 h after ischaemic stroke in a prospectively recruited cohort. Pot...

We aimed to characterise the patterns of circadian blood pressure (BP) variation after acute stroke and determine whether any relationship exists between these patterns and stroke outcome. BP was recorded manually every 4 h for 48 h following acute stroke. Patients were classified according to the percentage fall in mean systolic BP (SBP) at night...

Potentially modifiable physiological variables may influence stroke prognosis but their independence from modifiable factors remains unclear. Admission physiological measures (blood pressure, heart rate, temperature and blood glucose) and other unmodifiable factors were recorded from patients presenting within 48 hours of stroke. These variables we...

To assess the prevalence of premorbid undernutrition and its impact on outcomes 1 month after stroke. The study recruited from consecutive stroke admissions during a 10-month period. Premorbid nutritional status (using the subjective global assessment [SGA]), premorbid functioning (modified Rankin scale [MRS]), and stroke severity (National Institu...

This study analyses the notion of holism in nursing discourse by applying a Foucauldian methodology to explore conceptualizations of holism in nursing theory and to understand how these ideas permeate enacted nursing practices. The study finds that holism permits nurses to express values. It changes shape and changes its logical foundations dependi...