Science Education and Culture: The Contribution of History and Philosophy of Science - Softcover

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Editorial Introduction. Part One: History of Science, Education and Culture. Introduction. 1. History and Science Education: Cautionary Tales about the Agreement of Measurement and Theory; J. Heilbron. 2. Scientific Culture and Public Education; A. Cordero. 3. Galileo and the Rhetoric of Relativity; P. Machamer. 4. Fostering the History of Science in American Science Education; F.J. Rutherford. 5. Nature-of-Science Literacy in Benchmarks and Standards: Postmodern/Relativist or Modern/Reliast? R. Good, J. Shymansky. 6. The Epic Narrative of Intellectual Culture as a Framework for Curricular Coherence; R.N. Carson. 7. History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science (HPSS) in Science Education: Results from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study; H.A. Wang, W.H. Schmidt. Part Two: Foundational Issues in Science Education. Introduction. 8. Instrumentality, Hermeneutics and the Place of Science in the School Curriculum; J. Donnelly. 9. The Primacy of Cognition - or of Perception? A Phenomenological Critique of the Theoretical Bases of Science Education; B. Dahlin. Constructivism in School Science Education: Powerful Model or the Most Dangerous Intellectual Tendency? E. Jenkins. Philosophy of Chemistry: An Emerging Field with Implications for Chemistry Education; S. Erduran. 12. Narratives in Science Teaching: Some Results from an Investigation into Students' Interests; F. Kubli. 13. Values in Science: An Educational Perspective; D. Allchin. 14. Which Way is Up? Thomas Kuhn's Analogy to Conceptual Development in Childhood; A.T. Levine. 15. Saving Kuhn from the Sociologists; R. Nola. Part Three: History, Philosophy and Physics Education. Introduction. 16. The Effect of a History-Based Course in Optics on Students' Views about Science; I. Galili, A. Hazan. 17. Scientific Controversies in Teaching Science: The Case of Volta; N. Kipnis. 18. Newton and Colour: The Complex Interplay of Theory and Experiment; R. de Andrade Martins. 19. Methodology and Politics in Science: The Fate of Huygens' 1673 Proposal of the Seconds Pendulum as an International Standard of Length, and Some Educational Suggestions; M.R. Matthews. 20. Reconstructing the Basic Concepts of General Relativity from an Educational and Cultural Point of View; O. Levrini. 21. The Contribution of the History of Physics in Physics Education: A Review; F. Seroglou, P. Koumaras. Contributors. Name Index. Subject Index.

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