β Scribed by J. L. Heilbron (auth.), Fabio Bevilacqua, Enrico Giannetto, Michael R. Matthews (eds.)
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This anthology contains selected papers from the 'Science as Culture' conference held at Lake Como, and Pavia University Italy, 15-19 September 1999. The conference, attended by about 220 individuals from thirty countries, was a joint venture of the International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Group (its fifth conference) and the History of Physics and Physics Teaching Division of the European Physical Society (its eighth conference). The magnificient Villa Olmo, on the lakeshore, provided a memorable location for the presentors of the 160 papers and the audience that discussed them. The conference was part of local celebrations of the bicentenary of Alessandro Volta's creation of the battery in 1799. Volta was born in Como in 1745, and for forty years from 1778 he was professor of experimental physics at Pavia University. The conference was fortunate to have had the generous financial support of the Italian government's Volta Bicentenary Fund, Lombardy region, Pavia University, Italian Research Council, and Kluwer Academic Publishers. The papers included here, have or will be, published in the journal Science & Education, the inaugural volume (1992) of which was a landmark in the history of science education publication, because it was the first journal in the field devoted to contributions from historical, philosophical and sociological scholarship. Clearly these 'foundational' disciplines inform numerous theoretical, curricular and pedagogical debates in science education. Contemporary Concerns The reseach promoted by the International and European Groups, and by the journal, is central to science education programmes in most areas of the world.
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-3
History in Science Education, with Cautionary Tales about the Agreement of Measurement and Theory....Pages 5-15
Scientific Culture and Public Education....Pages 17-29
Galileo and the Rhetoric of Relativity....Pages 31-40
Fostering the History of Science in American Science Education....Pages 41-52
Nature-of-Science Literacy in Benchmarks and Standards : Post-Modern/Relativist or Modern/Realist?....Pages 53-65
The Epic Narrative of Intellectual Culture as a Framework for Curricular Coherence....Pages 67-82
History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science in Science Education: Results from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study....Pages 83-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-107
Instrumentality, Hermeneutics and the Place of Science in the School Curriculum....Pages 109-127
The Primacy of Cognition β or of Perception? A Phenomenological Critique of the Theoretical Bases of Science Education....Pages 129-151
Constructivism in School Science Education: Powerful Model or the Most Dangerous Intellectual Tendency?....Pages 153-164
Philosophy of Chemistry: An Emerging Field with Implications for Chemistry Education....Pages 165-177
Can the Theory of Narratives Help Science Teachers be Better Storytellers?....Pages 179-183
Values in Science: An Educational Perspective....Pages 185-196
Which Way Is Up? Thomas S. Kuhnβs Analogy to Conceptual Development in Childhood....Pages 197-212
Saving Kuhn from the Sociologists of Science....Pages 213-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-228
The Effect of a History-Based Course in Optics on Studentsβ Views about Science....Pages 229-254
Scientific Controversies in Teaching Science: The Case of Volta....Pages 255-271
Newton and Colour: the Complex Interplay of Theory and Experiment....Pages 273-291
Methodology and Politics in Science: The Fate of Huygensβ 1673 Proposal of the Seconds Pendulum as an International Standard of Length and Some Educational Suggestions....Pages 293-309
Reconstructing the Basic Concepts of General Relativity from an Educational and Cultural Point of View....Pages 311-326
Front Matter....Pages 227-228
The Contribution of the History of Physics in Physics Education: A Review....Pages 327-346
Back Matter....Pages 347-362
Science Education; History; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Education
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