Professor Joan Bliss

Visiting fellow at Sussex University
Email: joan.bliss@btinternet.com
Telephone and fax number:
+44 (0)1273 483557
Address for correspondence:
Bramber Barn, South Farm Close,
Rodmell, East Sussex, BN7 3HW

Writing

• Books
• Bliss, J. (1999) (with R. Saljo, P. Light) (Eds) Learning Sites: Social and Technological resources in learning:  UK: Elsevier
• Bliss, J. (1994) (with H. Mellar,  R. Boohan, J. Ogborn, C. Tompsett) Learning with Artificial Worlds, Computer Based Modelling in the Curriculum.  Lewes, UK: Falmer Press (244 pages)
• Bliss, J. (1989) (with P. Adey, J. Head, M. Shayer) (Eds) Adolescent Development and School Science. Lewes, U.K.:Falmer Press (365 pages)
• Bliss, J. (1983), (2nd edition 1987) (with Monk M, Ogborn J.) Qualitative Data Analysis for Educational Research.  Croom Helm, London. (211 pages)
  
• Bliss, J.(1977) (with Ogborn J) Students' reactions to undergraduate science. Heinemann Education Books for the Nuffield Foundation. (151 pages)
• Bliss, J. 1973) Checking-up III, Nuffield Mathematics 5-13. Chambers and John Murray for the Nuffield Foundation.
• Bliss, J. (1972) Checking-up II, Nuffield Mathematics 5-13. Chambers and John Murray for the Nuffield Foundation.
• Bliss, J. (1972) Checking-up II, Nuffield Mathematics 5-13.  Chambers and John Murray for the Nuffield Foundation.
• Books Published with Jean Piaget
• (1973) Piaget J, Bliss J, Chollet-Levret M, Dami C, Mounoud P, Robert M, Rossel-Simonet C, Vinh Bang. La composition des forces et le problème des vecteurs. Etudes d'Epistémologie Génétique XXX.  Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. See: Chapter IV: "Interactions entre trois poids en présentation verticale" pp. 53-72.
• (1972) Piaget J, Bliss J, Bovet M, Ferreiro E, Labarthe M, Szeminska A, Vergnaud J,Vergopoulo.   La transmission des mouvements.   Etudes d'Epistémologie Génétique XXVII.  Paris:  Presses Universitaires de France. See: Chapter IX: "Transitivité logique et transmission mediate de matière"pp.229-241.
• (1972) Piaget J, Bliss J, Dami C, Fluckiger-Geneux I, Graven M.F, Maier R, Mounoud P, Robert M.  La direction des mobiles lors de chocs et de poussés.  Etudes d'Epistémologie Génétique XXVIII. Paris:  Presses Universitaires de France. See: Chapter I:  "Les changements de direction d'une boule heurtant une paroi" pp.7-32 and Chapter III  "Le choc d'une bille contre les côtés d'une boîte circulaire"pp. 65-91.
• Selection of articles in journals and edited books
• Bliss, J. (2001) Learning Science. In S. Amos and R. Boohen (Eds) Teaching Science in Secondary Schools. London and NY: Routledge, Falmer with Open University Press
• Bliss, J. (1999) (with Ogborn J, Boohan R, Brosnan T, Mellar H and Sakonidis B) ‘Modelling with young students - quantitative and qualitative’.  Journal of Computing in Higher Education, Vol 10, 2, 69-110
• Bliss, J. (1997) Making Models and Reasoning with Them, Journal of Computing in Higher Education, Vol.8 No.2. pp3-28
• Bliss, J. (1996) Piaget und Vygotsky: Ihre Bedeutung fur das Lehren und Lernen der Naturwissenschaften, in Zeitschrift fur Didaktik der Naturwissenschaften, Jahrgang 2, Heft 3, pp.3-16
• Bliss, J. (1996) (with M. Askew and S.Macrae) Effective teaching and Learning , scaffolding revisited Oxford Review of Education  (Guest Eds.  K. Silva and D.Wood), Vol.22.No.1.pp.37-59  Bliss, J. (1995) Piaget and after: the case of learning science, Studies in Science Education,    Vol.25, pp.139-172
• Bliss, J. (1995) (with B. Johnson). After diagnosis: the patient's view of life. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, Vol.1 No.3 pp.126-132.
• Bliss, J. (1994) (with Ogborn J.) Force and motion from the beginning  International Jrnl of Instruction and Learning, Vol  4, pp.7-25
• Bliss, J. (1994) Knowledge acquisition as an active process.   In (Eds) R. Lewis, P. Mendelsson. Lessons from Learning.  Berlin:  Springer Verlag.pp.23-37
• Bliss, J. (1993) (with Ogborn J) Steps towards a formalisation of a psycho-logic of motion, Journal of Intelligent Systems. Vol 3. No.1 pp.1-48.
• Bliss, J. (1993) (with Mellar H) Expressing the Student's Concepts versus Exploring the Teacher's: Issues in the Design of Microworlds for Teaching. Jrnl of Educational Computing Research, Vol.9.No.1pp.90-113.
• Bliss, J.(1994) Children Learning Science.  In (Eds)  B. Jennison and J. Ogborn, Wonder and Delight.  Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, pp.45-61.
• Bliss, J. (1993) The relevance of Piaget to research into children's conceptions.  In Eds. P.J.Black, A.M. Lucas. Children's informal ideas in science. London: Routledge,  pp. 20-44.
• Bliss. J.(1993) (with Ogborn, J) A common sense theory of motion.  In Eds. P.J.Black, A.M. Lucas. Children's informal ideas in science. London: Routledge, pp.120-133.
• Bliss, J.  (1990) (with Ogborn J) A Psycho-logic of motion, European Journal of Psychology of Education, Special edition on the Learning of Physics. Vol.V. No.4, pp.379-390.
• Bliss, J. (1990) Recherches sur l'enseignement des Sciences a l'ecole primaire en Angleterre,  in A. Giordan, A. Henriques &Vinh Bang (Eds), Psychologie  génétique et didactique des sciences, Bern: Peter Lang ,pp.177-188.
• Blisss, J.(1990) Students reactions to undergraduate science: Laboratory and project work in E. Hazel-Hegarty (Ed) The Science Curriculum and the Laboratory, London: Routledge Croom Helm, pp. 383-396.
• Bliss, J. (1990) The Nature of Communication in Early Childhood in the context of home and school in L. P. Steffe & T. Wood (Eds) Transforming  Children's Mathematics Education  - International Perspectives  Hillsdale, N.J:: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp.294-303.
• Bliss, J.  (1989) (with Ogborn J. Whitelock D) Secondary Pupils' Commonsense theories of motion, Int. Journal of Science Education, Vol.11, No.3,  pp. 261-272.