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The role of scientific terminology in research and teaching: Is something important missing?

โœ Scribed by Josip Slisko; Dewey I. Dykstra; Jr.

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
24 KB
Volume
34
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-4308

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โœฆ Synopsis

Pushkin (Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 33, 223-224, 1996)

concerning the definitions of terms relating to heat raises the broader issue of the nature of scientific terms and their role in instruction. We illustrate that in just two significant examples (heat and electricity) it is easy to illustrate from the literature that there is not agreement as to the meaning of the terms among scientists and that between texts, even within texts, terms are used in such inconsistent ways that there is no logical way to sort out the meanings of the terms. Hence, if "standard interpretations of scientific knowledge to be taught" do not actually exist, then how can the teaching of standard interpretations of scientific knowledge be established as a goal to be accomplished?

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