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In this paper I examine the particular question of the meaning of the distinction between epistemic and non-epistemic values
in the natural sciences and, if this would make sense, the possibility to transcend this distinction. I claim that the distinction
between epistemic and non-epistemic values maintains its necessity as long as a certain sort of unity between the theoretical
and the practical sides of the scientific endeavour has not been achieved. The distinction in question would cease to have
meaning only from the perspective of such a unity, since in this manner the normative dimension of science would become an
internal term for its historical construction.
Maria Pournari Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Primary Education, School of Education, University of Ioannina. Ph.D. from Department of Philosophy, B.A. from Department of Mathematics and from Department of Philosophy, University of Ioannina. Field of Expertise: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Cognitive science, Epistemology of Education, Modern Philosophy. Books: David Hume: Critique of Causation as an Attempt towards a “True Metaphysics”, Ph. D. Thesis, University of Ioannina, 1994. (in Greek), David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Of The Understanding, Introduction-Translation in Greek, Patakis Publication, Athens 2005 相似文献
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Maria Pournari Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Primary Education, School of Education, University of Ioannina. Ph.D. from Department of Philosophy, B.A. from Department of Mathematics and from Department of Philosophy, University of Ioannina. Field of Expertise: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Cognitive science, Epistemology of Education, Modern Philosophy. Books: David Hume: Critique of Causation as an Attempt towards a “True Metaphysics”, Ph. D. Thesis, University of Ioannina, 1994. (in Greek), David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Of The Understanding, Introduction-Translation in Greek, Patakis Publication, Athens 2005 相似文献
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Don Howard 《Science & Education》2009,18(2):199-220
This paper asks what is necessary in a theory of science adequate to the task of empowering philosophers of science to participate
in public debate about science in a social context. It is argued that an adequate theory of science must be capable of theorizing
the role of values and motives in science and that it must take seriously the irreducibly social nature of scientific knowledge.
Don Howard is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a B.Sc. in physical sciences from Michigan State University and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston University. His special interests include the history and philosophical foundations of physics and the history of the philosophy of science. Recent publications include: The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice: Science and Values Revisited, co-edited with Martin Carrier and Janet Kourany (University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming); “‘Let me briefly indicate why I do not find this standpoint natural.’ Einstein, General Relativity, and the Contingent A Priori,” in Synthesis and the Growth of Knowledge: Examining Michael Friedman’s Approach to the History of Philosophy and Science, Michael Dickson and Mary Domski, eds. (Open Court, forthcoming); “Einstein and the Philosophy of Science,” in the Cambridge Companion to Einstein, Michel Janssen and Christoph Lehner, eds. (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming); and “Albert Einstein as a Philosopher of Science,” Physics Today (2005). 相似文献
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Don Howard is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a B.Sc. in physical sciences from Michigan State University and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston University. His special interests include the history and philosophical foundations of physics and the history of the philosophy of science. Recent publications include: The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice: Science and Values Revisited, co-edited with Martin Carrier and Janet Kourany (University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming); “‘Let me briefly indicate why I do not find this standpoint natural.’ Einstein, General Relativity, and the Contingent A Priori,” in Synthesis and the Growth of Knowledge: Examining Michael Friedman’s Approach to the History of Philosophy and Science, Michael Dickson and Mary Domski, eds. (Open Court, forthcoming); “Einstein and the Philosophy of Science,” in the Cambridge Companion to Einstein, Michel Janssen and Christoph Lehner, eds. (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming); and “Albert Einstein as a Philosopher of Science,” Physics Today (2005). 相似文献
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Sandra Stotsky 《Prospects》2007,37(4):489-500
This article recounts the battle in the “math wars” that took place in Massachusetts, United States in 1999–2000 over the
scope, content and teaching of the state’s K-12 mathematics curriculum. Harsh controversies arose between the partisans of
a “reform-math” movement stressing an undefined “conceptual understanding” and student-created algorithms and those, including
the author, advocating an academically stronger mathematics curriculum as well as fluency in students’ computational skills
with whole numbers and fractions. While “reform-math” supporters privileged and fought for a radical constructivist view of
mathematics learning, the Massachusetts Board of Education decided to implement mathematics standards that linked strong academic
content to the development of authentic computational competencies in students. Following the introduction of newly revised
mathematic standards in 2000, real progress was reached in terms of student achievement. According to the results of the 2007
tests in reading and in mathematics for Grade 4 and Grade 8, reported by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP),
Massachusetts ranked first nationwide in mathematics and tied for first place in reading, with its students having made significant
gains from 2005 to 2007. The article makes a strong case for evidence-based curriculum design and implementation, freed, as
much as possible, of mythologies and misconceptions. It explains why it was necessary to reject the theoretical assumptions
and pedagogical strategies embedded in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ 1989 and 2000 standards documents.
It also highlights the importance of a strong personal life and working “principles” underpinning the mission of curriculum
developers: successful reform “strategies” are indeed meaningless in the absence of such durable personal beliefs and values.
Sandra Stotsky is Professor of Education Reform and holds the 21st Century Chair in Teacher Quality in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, USA. From 2003 to 2005 she was a Research Scholar at Northeastern University, and from 1999 to 2003 she was Senior Associate Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Education. During that period she directed complete revisions of the state’s licensing regulations for teachers, administrators, and teacher training schools, the state’s tests for teacher licensure, and the state’s PreK-12 standards for mathematics, history and social science, English language arts and reading, science and technology/engineering, early childhood (preschool), and instructional technology. She is editor of What’s at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars: A Primer for Educational Policy Makers (Peter Lang, 2000) and author of Losing Our Language (Free Press, 1999, reprinted by Encounter Books, 2002). In May 2006 she was appointed to the National Mathematics Advisory Panel and is a co-author of its final report, released in March 2008. 相似文献
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Sandra Stotsky is Professor of Education Reform and holds the 21st Century Chair in Teacher Quality in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, USA. From 2003 to 2005 she was a Research Scholar at Northeastern University, and from 1999 to 2003 she was Senior Associate Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Education. During that period she directed complete revisions of the state’s licensing regulations for teachers, administrators, and teacher training schools, the state’s tests for teacher licensure, and the state’s PreK-12 standards for mathematics, history and social science, English language arts and reading, science and technology/engineering, early childhood (preschool), and instructional technology. She is editor of What’s at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars: A Primer for Educational Policy Makers (Peter Lang, 2000) and author of Losing Our Language (Free Press, 1999, reprinted by Encounter Books, 2002). In May 2006 she was appointed to the National Mathematics Advisory Panel and is a co-author of its final report, released in March 2008. 相似文献
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Anton E. Lawson 《Science & Education》2009,18(1):119-124
Allchin (2006) has misinterpreted a classic case of hypothetico-deductive (HD) science in terms of his preferred ‘let’s-gather-some-data-and-see-what-emerges’ view. The misrepresentation concerns the research program of Peter and Rosemary
Grant on Darwin’s finches. The present essay argues that the Grants’ research is HD in nature and includes a statement by
Peter Grant to that effect.
Dr. Anton E. Lawson’s career in science education began in the late 1960s in California where he taught middle school science and mathematics for 3 years before completing his PhD at the University of Oklahoma and moving to Purdue University in 1973. Lawson continued his research career at the University of California Berkeley in 1974, and then moved to Arizona State University in 1977, where he currently conducts research and teaches courses in biology, in biology teaching methods, and in research methods. Lawson has directed over 100 workshops for teachers, mostly on inquiry teaching methods, and has published over 200 articles and over 20 books including Science Teaching and the Development of Thinking (Wadsworth: Belmont, CA, 1995), Biology: A Critical Thinking Approach, (Addison Wesley: Menlo Park, CA, 1994), and The Neurological Basis of Learning, Development and Discovery (Kluwer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2003). Lawson’s most recent book is an introductory biology text called Biology: An Inquiry Approach (Kendall/Hunt: Dubuque, IA, 2004). Lawson is perhaps best known for his research articles in science education, which have three times been judged to be the most significant articles of the year by the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). He has also received NARST’s career award for distinguished contributions to Science Education Research as well as the outstanding science educator of the year award by the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science. 相似文献
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Dr. Anton E. Lawson’s career in science education began in the late 1960s in California where he taught middle school science and mathematics for 3 years before completing his PhD at the University of Oklahoma and moving to Purdue University in 1973. Lawson continued his research career at the University of California Berkeley in 1974, and then moved to Arizona State University in 1977, where he currently conducts research and teaches courses in biology, in biology teaching methods, and in research methods. Lawson has directed over 100 workshops for teachers, mostly on inquiry teaching methods, and has published over 200 articles and over 20 books including Science Teaching and the Development of Thinking (Wadsworth: Belmont, CA, 1995), Biology: A Critical Thinking Approach, (Addison Wesley: Menlo Park, CA, 1994), and The Neurological Basis of Learning, Development and Discovery (Kluwer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2003). Lawson’s most recent book is an introductory biology text called Biology: An Inquiry Approach (Kendall/Hunt: Dubuque, IA, 2004). Lawson is perhaps best known for his research articles in science education, which have three times been judged to be the most significant articles of the year by the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). He has also received NARST’s career award for distinguished contributions to Science Education Research as well as the outstanding science educator of the year award by the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science. 相似文献
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In this case study, we examine a teacher’s journey, including reflections on teaching science, everyday classroom interaction,
and their intertwined relationship. The teacher’s reflections include an awareness of being “a White middle-class born and
raised teacher teaching other peoples’ children.” This awareness was enacted in the science classroom and emerges through
approaches to inquiry. Our interest in Ms. Cook’s journey grew out of discussions, including both informal and semi-structured interviews, in two
research projects over a three-year period. Our interest was further piqued as we analyzed videotaped classroom interaction
during science lessons and discovered connections between Ms. Cook’s reflections and classroom interaction. In this article,
we illustrate ways that her journey emerges as a conscientization. This, at least in part, shapes classroom interaction, which
then again shapes her conscientization in a recursive, dynamic relationship. We examine her reflections on her “hegemonic
(cultural and socio–economic) practices” and consider how these reflections help her reconsider such practices through analysis
of classroom interaction. Analyses lead us to considering the importance of inquiry within this classroom community.
Jennifer Goldberg is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions at Fairfield University. She received her PhD in educational research methodology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her teaching and research focuses on the importance of teaching for social justice and the relationship between identity, talk, and interaction on student opportunities for learning. Kate Muir Welsh is an associate professor in the University of Wyoming’s College of Education. She received her PhD in education from the University of California, Los Angeles. Kate teaches math and science methods courses to pre-service and in-service elementary teachers and graduate courses on Action Research. Her research focuses on social justice teaching. She is also Chair of the University of Wyoming’s Shepard Symposium on Social Justice. 相似文献
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Jennifer Goldberg is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions at Fairfield University. She received her PhD in educational research methodology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her teaching and research focuses on the importance of teaching for social justice and the relationship between identity, talk, and interaction on student opportunities for learning. Kate Muir Welsh is an associate professor in the University of Wyoming’s College of Education. She received her PhD in education from the University of California, Los Angeles. Kate teaches math and science methods courses to pre-service and in-service elementary teachers and graduate courses on Action Research. Her research focuses on social justice teaching. She is also Chair of the University of Wyoming’s Shepard Symposium on Social Justice. 相似文献
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A key focus of current science education reforms involves developing inquiry-based learning materials. However, without an
understanding of how working scientists actually do science, such learning materials cannot be properly developed. Until now, research on scientific reasoning has focused on
cognitive studies of individual scientific fields. However, the question remains as to whether scientists in different fields
fundamentally rely on different methodologies. Although many philosophers and historians of science do indeed assert that
there is no single monolithic scientific method, this has never been tested empirically. We therefore approach this problem
by analyzing patterns of language used by scientists in their published work. Our results demonstrate systematic variation
in language use between types of science that are thought to differ in their characteristic methodologies. The features of
language use that were found correspond closely to a proposed distinction between Experimental Sciences (e.g., chemistry) and Historical Sciences (e.g., paleontology); thus, different underlying rhetorical and conceptual mechanisms likely operate for scientific reasoning
and communication in different contexts.
Jeff Dodick is an Assistant Professor of Science Education at the Science Teaching Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has a background in both Paleontology (M.Sc. from the University of Toronto) and Science Education (Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science). His current research focuses on how novice learners, as well as experts, solve problems and communicate findings in historical based sciences, including evolutionary biology, geology, and archeology. Shlomo Argamon is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He has degrees in Applied Mathematics (B.Sc. from Carnegie Mellon University) and Computer Science (M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University), and has been a Fulbright Fellow at Bar-Ilan University. His current research focuses on developing computational models of textual style and interpersonal aspects of human language use, particularly on scientific and literary texts and for forensic applications. Paul Chase is a doctoral candidate at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and is currently working for the MITRE corporation. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His doctoral research focuses on developing automated methods for style-based text categorization and segmentation. 相似文献
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Jeff Dodick is an Assistant Professor of Science Education at the Science Teaching Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has a background in both Paleontology (M.Sc. from the University of Toronto) and Science Education (Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science). His current research focuses on how novice learners, as well as experts, solve problems and communicate findings in historical based sciences, including evolutionary biology, geology, and archeology. Shlomo Argamon is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He has degrees in Applied Mathematics (B.Sc. from Carnegie Mellon University) and Computer Science (M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University), and has been a Fulbright Fellow at Bar-Ilan University. His current research focuses on developing computational models of textual style and interpersonal aspects of human language use, particularly on scientific and literary texts and for forensic applications. Paul Chase is a doctoral candidate at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and is currently working for the MITRE corporation. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His doctoral research focuses on developing automated methods for style-based text categorization and segmentation. 相似文献
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Ramón López-Facal María Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(3):689-695
This comment on L. Simonneaux and J. Simonneaux paper focuses on the role of identities in dealing with socio-scientific issues. We argue that there are two types of identities (social representations) influencing
the students’ positions: On the one hand their social representations of the bears’ and wolves’ identities as belonging to
particular countries (Slovenia versus France for bears, France and Italy for wolves), in other words, as having national identities;
on the other hand representations of their own identities as belonging to the field of agricultural practitioners, and so
sharing this socio-professional identity with shepherds and breeders, as opposed to ecologists. We discuss how these representations
of identities influenced students’ reasoning and argumentation, blocking in some cases the evaluation of evidence. Implications
for developing critical thinking and for dealing with SSI in the classrooms are outlined.
Ramón López-Facal is part-time lecturer on modern history in the University of Santiago de Compostela, sharing this affiliation with teaching high school History. In 1999 he completed one of the first doctoral dissertations in History Education in Spain, an examination of the teaching of the concept of nation through the analysis of textbooks from the XVIII to the XX centuries, and the analysis of students’ discourse about the concept of nation, and their representations of national identities. His research focuses on the school construction of national and post-national identities. He is the author of chapters about the “hidden” nation in S. Pérez-Garzón (Ed.) La Gestión de la Memoria: La Historia al Servicio del Poder (The Management of Memory: History in the Service of Power; Crítica 2000), and about the construction of critical identities in A. Legardez & L. Simonneaux L’école à l’épreuve de l’Actualité: Enseigner les Questions Vives (ESF 2006). María Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre is professor of science education in the University of Santiago de Compostela. After teaching high-school biology, implementing innovative curricula, and working in the Spanish Ministry of Education in the design of in-service teacher education, she was part of the first batch of Spanish researchers completing doctoral dissertations in science education around 1990 and building a community around this field in Spain. Her research explored conceptual change in evolution and then moved to argumentation in science classrooms, with particular attention to two contexts, problem-solving in the laboratory, and environmental and socio-scientific issues. She has served in the executive committee of ESERA and currently serves on the editorial boards of Science Education and Journal of Research in Science Teaching. Her recent work includes editing with S. Erduran Argumentation in Science Education: Perspectives from Classroom-based Research (Springer, 2008). 相似文献
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Ramón López-Facal is part-time lecturer on modern history in the University of Santiago de Compostela, sharing this affiliation with teaching high school History. In 1999 he completed one of the first doctoral dissertations in History Education in Spain, an examination of the teaching of the concept of nation through the analysis of textbooks from the XVIII to the XX centuries, and the analysis of students’ discourse about the concept of nation, and their representations of national identities. His research focuses on the school construction of national and post-national identities. He is the author of chapters about the “hidden” nation in S. Pérez-Garzón (Ed.) La Gestión de la Memoria: La Historia al Servicio del Poder (The Management of Memory: History in the Service of Power; Crítica 2000), and about the construction of critical identities in A. Legardez & L. Simonneaux L’école à l’épreuve de l’Actualité: Enseigner les Questions Vives (ESF 2006). María Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre is professor of science education in the University of Santiago de Compostela. After teaching high-school biology, implementing innovative curricula, and working in the Spanish Ministry of Education in the design of in-service teacher education, she was part of the first batch of Spanish researchers completing doctoral dissertations in science education around 1990 and building a community around this field in Spain. Her research explored conceptual change in evolution and then moved to argumentation in science classrooms, with particular attention to two contexts, problem-solving in the laboratory, and environmental and socio-scientific issues. She has served in the executive committee of ESERA and currently serves on the editorial boards of Science Education and Journal of Research in Science Teaching. Her recent work includes editing with S. Erduran Argumentation in Science Education: Perspectives from Classroom-based Research (Springer, 2008). 相似文献
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Towards an indigenous science curriculum 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Elizabeth McKinley 《Research in Science Education》1996,26(2):155-167
The recent development of a national science curriculum in Māori opened up space to contest whose knowledge and whose ways
of knowing are included. This paper outlines the background to the curriculum development work in Aotearoa New Zealand with
respect to the indigenous Māori people and science education. Concern is expressed about the fitting of one cultural framework
into another and questions are raised about the approach used in the development of the science curriculum. Further research
in the area of language, culture and science education is discussed along with how Māori might move forward in the endeavour
of developing a curriculum that reflects Māori culture and language.
This paper forms part of an MEd thesis. For a fuller analysis of the development of “Te Tauākī Marautanga Pūtaiao: He Tauira”
(Draft National Science Curriculum in Māori) see McKinley (1995) in the references. See alsoSAMEpapers 1995 (Hamilton, New Zealand: Centre for Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, University of Waikato). 相似文献
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There is, in Greece, an ongoing attempt to breach the boundaries established between the different teaching-learning subjects
of compulsory education. In this context, we are interested in exploring to what degree the teaching and learning of ideas
from the sciences’ “internal life” (Hacking, in: Pickering (ed) Science as practice and culture, 1992) benefits from creatively
coming into contact with theatrical education as part of the corresponding curriculum subject. To this end, 57 students of
the Early Childhood Education Department of the University of Athens were called to study extracts from Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, to focus on a subject that the Dialogue’s “interlocutors” forcefully disagree about and to theatrically represent (using shadow theatre techniques) what they considered
as being the central idea of this clash of opinions. The results indicate that this attempt leads to a satisfactory understanding
of ideas relating to the content and methodology of the natural sciences. At the same time, theatrical education avails itself
of the representation of scientific ideas and avoids the clichés and hackneyed techniques that the (often) simplistic choices
available in the educational context of early childhood education tend towards. The basic reasons for both facets of this
success are: (a) Genuine scientific texts force the students to approach them with seriousness, and all the more so if these
recount the manner in which scientific ideas are produced and are embedded in the historical and social context of the age
that created them; (b) The theatrical framework, which essentially guides the students’ activities, allows (if not obliges)
them to approach scientific issues creatively; in other words, it allows them to create something related to science and recognize
it as theirs; and, (c) Both the narrative texts describing processes of “science making” (Bruner, J Sci Educ Technol 1:5–12, 1992) and
theatrical expression constitute fields that are characterized by what, for the students, is a common and understandable manner
of expression: the narrative. 相似文献
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Interviews with key scientists who had conducted research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), together with analysis
of media reports, documentaries and other literature published during and after the SARS epidemic, revealed many interesting
aspects of the nature of science (NOS) and scientific inquiry in contemporary scientific research in the rapidly growing field
of molecular biology. The story of SARS illustrates vividly some NOS features advocated in the school science curriculum,
including the tentative nature of scientific knowledge, theory-laden observation and interpretation, multiplicity of approaches
adopted in scientific inquiry, the inter-relationship between science and technology, and the nexus of science, politics,
social and cultural practices. The story also provided some insights into a number of NOS features less emphasised in the
school curriculum—for example, the need to combine and coordinate expertise in a number of scientific fields, the intense
competition between research groups (suspended during the SARS crisis), the significance of affective issues relating to intellectual
honesty and the courage to challenge authority, the pressure of funding issues on the conduct of research and the ‘peace of
mind’ of researchers, These less emphasised elements provided empirical evidence that NOS knowledge, like scientific knowledge
itself, changes over time. They reflected the need for teachers and curriculum planners to revisit and reconsider whether
the features of NOS currently included in the school science curriculum are fully reflective of the practice of science in
the 21st century. In this paper, we also report on how we made use of extracts from the news reports and documentaries on
SARS, together with episodes from the scientists’ interviews, to develop a multimedia instructional package for explicitly
teaching the prominent features of NOS and scientific inquiry identified in the SARS research.
Siu Ling Wong is an Assistant Professor, in the Division of Science, Mathematics and Computing in the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong. She received her B.Sc. from The University of Hong Kong and her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. Her research interests include promoting teachers’ and students’ understanding of nature of science and scientific inquiry, physics education, teacher professional development. Jenny Kwan is a PhD student in the Faculty of Education, at The University of Hong Kong. She received her B.Sc. from University of Sydney. She is now investigating in-service teachers’ classroom instruction on nature of science in relation to their intentions, beliefs, and pedagogical content knowledge. Derek Hodson is Professor of Science Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and Editor of the Canadian Journal of Science, Technology and Mathematics Education. His major research interests include: history, philosophy & sociology of science and its implications for science education; STSE education and the politicisation of science education; science curriculum history; multicultural and antiracist education; and science teacher education via action research. Benny Hin Wai Yung is Head, Associate Professor, in the Division of Science, Mathematics and Computing in the Faculty of Education at University of Hong Kong. His main research areas are teacher education and development, science education and assessment for science learning. His recent publications include Yung BHW (2006) Assessment reform in science education: fairness and fear. Springer, Dordrecht. 相似文献
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Siu Ling Wong is an Assistant Professor, in the Division of Science, Mathematics and Computing in the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong. She received her B.Sc. from The University of Hong Kong and her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. Her research interests include promoting teachers’ and students’ understanding of nature of science and scientific inquiry, physics education, teacher professional development. Jenny Kwan is a PhD student in the Faculty of Education, at The University of Hong Kong. She received her B.Sc. from University of Sydney. She is now investigating in-service teachers’ classroom instruction on nature of science in relation to their intentions, beliefs, and pedagogical content knowledge. Derek Hodson is Professor of Science Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and Editor of the Canadian Journal of Science, Technology and Mathematics Education. His major research interests include: history, philosophy & sociology of science and its implications for science education; STSE education and the politicisation of science education; science curriculum history; multicultural and antiracist education; and science teacher education via action research. Benny Hin Wai Yung is Head, Associate Professor, in the Division of Science, Mathematics and Computing in the Faculty of Education at University of Hong Kong. His main research areas are teacher education and development, science education and assessment for science learning. His recent publications include Yung BHW (2006) Assessment reform in science education: fairness and fear. Springer, Dordrecht. 相似文献
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The proposition of “the more national, the more international”, when applied to education, is not absolutely right. Given
education, educational research and the modernization of educational research, these can be more international only when their
essence represents, reflects or implies the trend of human education and educational research. Otherwise, it would not be
the case.
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Translated from Journal of Sichuan Normal University (Social Science Edition), 2004 (3)
The author is grateful to the National Education Science Funds for the financial assistance to this study. 相似文献
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Alison Sammel 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2008,3(4):843-857
In this paper I respond to Ajay Sharma’s Portrait of a Science Teacher as a Bricoleur: A case study from India, by speaking to two aspects of the bricoleur: the subject and the discursive in relation to pedagogic perspective. I highlight
that our subjectivities are negotiated based on the desires of the similar and competing discourses we are exposed to, and
the political powers they hold in society. As (science) teachers we modify our practices based upon our own internal arbitrations
with discourses. I agree with Sharma that as teachers we are discursively produced, however, I suggest that what is missing
in the discussion of his paper is the historically socially constructed nature of science or science education itself. I advocate
that science education is not neutral, objective or unproblematic. Building on Gill and Levidow’s (Anti-racist science teaching,
1987) critique, it is precisely because we are socially constructed by the dominant hegemonic science education discourse
that we rarely articulate the underlying political or economic priorities of science; science’s appropriation of other cultural
ways of knowing; the way science theory has been, or is used to justify the oppression of peoples for political gain; the
central role science and technology play in the defensive, economic and political agendas of nations and multinational corporations
who fund science; the historical, and contemporary role science plays in rationalizing an exploitative ideological perspective
towards the more-than-human world and the natural environment; and finally, the alienating effect science has on students
when used as a ranking and sorting mechanism by educational systems. Therefore, we need to do what Mr. Raghuvanshi could not
imagine: we need to destabilize the foundations of science education by questioning inherent structural and ideological inequities.
Alison Sammel received her doctorate in 2005 for a study that used critical theory and feminist poststructuralism to analyse how five science teachers believed they incorporated critical forms of pedagogy in their high school science classrooms. Intrigued by the social construction of the ‘Western science teacher’ she continues to explore the teaching and learning of Science through the lens of feminist poststructuralism. Alison currently teaches at the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University on the Gold Coast and researches in the fields of Science and Anti-oppressive pedagogies. Prior to her employment at Griffith University, Alison was employed as the Chair of Science Education at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It was here she began working with local Indigenous communities to authentically incorporate Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Science Education. 相似文献
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Alison Sammel received her doctorate in 2005 for a study that used critical theory and feminist poststructuralism to analyse how five science teachers believed they incorporated critical forms of pedagogy in their high school science classrooms. Intrigued by the social construction of the ‘Western science teacher’ she continues to explore the teaching and learning of Science through the lens of feminist poststructuralism. Alison currently teaches at the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University on the Gold Coast and researches in the fields of Science and Anti-oppressive pedagogies. Prior to her employment at Griffith University, Alison was employed as the Chair of Science Education at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It was here she began working with local Indigenous communities to authentically incorporate Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Science Education. 相似文献
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This study explores the extent to which the term “sex hormone” is used in science textbooks, and whether the use of the term
“sex hormone” is associated with pre-empirical concepts of sex dualism, in particular the misconceptions that these so-called
“sex hormones” are sex specific and restricted to sex-related physiological functioning. We found that: (1) all the texts
employed the term “sex hormone”; (2) in all texts estrogen is characterized as restricted to females and testosterone is characterized
as restricted to males; and (3) in all texts testosterone and estrogen are discussed as exclusively involved in sex-related
physiological roles. We conclude that (1) contemporary science textbooks preserve sex-dualistic models of steroid hormones
(one sex, one “sex hormone”) that were rejected by medical science in the early 20th century and (2) use of the term “sex
hormone” is associated with misconceptions regarding the presence and functions of steroid hormones in male and female bodies.
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Like many readers of this journal, I have long been an advocate of having science students introduced to philosophy of science.
In particular, influenced by the Philosophy for Children movement founded by Matthew Lipman, I have advocated such an introduction
as early as possible and have championed early secondary school as an appropriate place. Further, mainstream science curricula
in a number of countries have, for some time now, supported such introductions (albeit of a more limited sort) under the banner
of introducing students to the “Nature of Science”. In this paper, I explore a case against such introductions, partly in
role as “Devil’s Advocate” and partly exploring genuine qualms that have come to disturb me. Generally speaking, my judgement
is that no justification is available in terms of benefit to the individual or to society of sufficient weight to outweigh
the loss of freedom of choice involved in such forced learning. One possible exception is a minimalist and intellectually
passive “Nature of Science” introduction to some uncontroversial philosophical views about science.
An earlier version of this paper was presented to the Seventh International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science and Science Teaching, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg and subsequently published in its proceedings (see my 2003). I am grateful to those who engaged in discussion of the paper upon its presentation. I am also grateful to the advice of
this journal’s anonymous referees. 相似文献
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The Touchstones series of poetry anthologies was first published in the UK between 1968 and 1972 in five volumes. Over a million copies and
three revisions later, Touchstones Now 11–14 appeared in the summer of 2008. Few, if any, books for the classroom can claim such longevity. In this article, the compilers
of the anthologies, Michael and Peter Benton, look back over the 40 years of the series’ life. They reflect upon the principles
which have guided their choices; and the social and political pressures, often exerted by governments, which they have confronted
in their attempt to help school students become enthusiastic, committed and discriminating readers of poetry.
Bionote: Michael and Peter Benton taught in various secondary schools in the UK for 10 years before becoming University Lecturers
in Education. Separately, they have published many articles and academic books on the teaching of English and, together, they
have collaborated on a variety of anthologies for the classroom in addition to the “Touchstones” series, notably their books
on poetry and painting, “Double Vision”, “Painting with Words” and “Picture Poems”. Michael Benton is Emeritus Professor of
Education, University of Southampton; Peter Benton is Emeritus Fellow, St Cross College, & formerly Lecturer in Education,
Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford. 相似文献
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In this section of Resonance, we invite readers to pose questions likely to be raised in a classroom situation. We may suggest strategies for dealing
with them, or invite responses, or both. “Classroom” is equally a forum for raising broader issues and sharing personal experiences
and viewpoints on matters related to teaching and learning science.
This project was done as part of the Research Education Advancement Programme held over weekends at the Bangalore Association
for Science Education, Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore. 相似文献
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Ricardo Lopes Coelho 《Science & Education》2009,18(8):961-983
Some physicists have pointed out that we do not know what energy is. Many studies have shown that the concept of energy is
a problem for teaching. A study of the history of the concept shows that the discoverers of energy did not find anything which
is indestructible and transformable but rather that the concept of energy underwent a change of meaning and energy was considered
a substance towards the end of the nineteenth century. In distinguishing between the treatment of phenomena and the theories
carried out by Mayer and Joule, it can be concluded that they established equivalences between different domains, such as
motion and heat, motion and electricity or position and motion. This complies with the interpretation presented in textbooks
published about a century ago and enables us to overcome some difficulties with the concept of energy.
Ricardo Lopes Coelho has been a “professor auxiliar” at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, since 1997, and a “Privatdozent” at the Technical University of Berlin, since 2001. He studied piano, philosophy and physics in Portugal, did his PhD at the TU-Berlin, with a dissertation on Hertz’s Principles of Mechanics, and the Habilitation in History and Philosophy of exact Sciences, with a dissertation on the concept of force, at the same University. Among others, he published some writings concerning his main research interest, the understanding of scientific concepts and principles through its past and philosophy. 相似文献
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Ricardo Lopes Coelho has been a “professor auxiliar” at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, since 1997, and a “Privatdozent” at the Technical University of Berlin, since 2001. He studied piano, philosophy and physics in Portugal, did his PhD at the TU-Berlin, with a dissertation on Hertz’s Principles of Mechanics, and the Habilitation in History and Philosophy of exact Sciences, with a dissertation on the concept of force, at the same University. Among others, he published some writings concerning his main research interest, the understanding of scientific concepts and principles through its past and philosophy. 相似文献