Title | Science Education and Culture [electronic resource] : The Contribution of History and Philosophy of Science / edited by Fabio Bevilacqua, Enrico Giannetto, Michael R. Matthews |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0730-6 |
Descript | XII, 376 p. 6 illus. online resource |
One: History Of Science, Education And Culture -- 1. History in Science Education, with Cautionary Tales about the Agreement of Measurement and Theory -- 2. Scientific Culture and Public Education -- 3. Galileo and the Rhetoric of Relativity -- 4. Fostering the History of Science in American Science Education -- 5. Nature-of-Science Literacy in Benchmarks and Standards: Post-modern/Relativist or Modern/Realist? -- 6. The Epic Narrative of Intellectual Culture as a Framework for Curricular Coherence -- 7. History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science in Science Education: Results from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study -- Two: Foundational Issues In Science Education -- 8. Instrumentality, Hermeneutics and the Place of Science in the School Curriculum -- 9. The Primacy of Cognition - or of Perception? A Phenomenological Critique of the Theoretical Bases of Science Education -- 10. Constructivism in School Science Education: Powerful Model or the Most Dangerous Intellectual Tendency? -- 11. Philosophy of Chemistry: An Emerging Field with Implications for Chemistry Education -- 12. Can the Theory of Narratives Help Science Teachers be Better Storytellers? -- 13. Values in Science: An Educational Perspective -- 14. Which Way is Up? Thomas Kuhnโs Analogy to Conceptual Development in Childhood -- 15. Saving Kuhn from the Sociologists of Science -- Three: History, Philosophy And Physics Education -- 16. The Effect of a History-Based Course in Optics on Studentsโ Views about Science -- 17. Scientific Controversies in Teaching Science: The Case of Volta -- 18. Newton and Colour: The Complex Interplay of Theory and Experiment -- 19. Methodology and Politics in Science: The Fate of Huygensโ 1673 Proposal of the Seconds Pendulum as an International Standard of Length, and Some Educational Suggestions -- 20. Reconstructing the Basic Concepts of General Relativity from an Educational and Cultural Point of View -- 21. The Contribution of the History of Physics in Physics Education: A Review -- Contributors -- Name Index