Chapter 1 An Overview of the EQUALPRIME Project, Its History and Research Design

Chapter 2 Social and Cultural Factors Framing the Teaching and Learning of Primary Science in Australia, Germany and Taiwan

Chapter 3 Physical Learning Environments for Science Education: An Ethnographic Field Study of Primary Classrooms in Australia, Germany and Taiwan

Chapter 4 Variation in Whole Class, Small Group and Individual Student Work Within and Across Cultures

Chapter 5 Inquiry Teaching and Learning: Forms, Approaches, and Embedded Views Within and Across Cultures

Chapter 7 Reasoning Through Representations

Chapter 8 Embodied Strategies in the Teaching and Learning of Science

Chapter 9 Reflections on Reasoning

Chapter 10 Reflections on Quality Teaching in Primary Science Classrooms in Diverse Cultural Settings

Chapter 11 Reflections on Video-Based, Cross-Cultural Classroom Research Methodologies

Chapter 12 Implications for Practice and Teacher Education

Chapter 13 Implications for Cross-Cultural Comparative Studies of Teaching and Learning