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Student Attitudes, Student Anxieties, and How to Address Them
A Handbook for Science Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book is based on a commitment to teaching science to everybody. What may work for training professional scientists does not work for general science education. Students bring to the classrooms preconceived attitudes, as well as the emotional baggage called ""science anxiety.""...
Science, Culture and Society
Understanding Science in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Science occupies an ambiguous space in contemporary society. Scientific research is championed in relation to tackling environmental issues and diseases such as cancer and dementia, and science has made important contributions to today’s knowledge economies and knowledge societies. And yet science...
Advances in Nature of Science Research
Concepts and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
This book consolidates contemporary thinking and research efforts in teaching and learning about the nature of science in science education. The term ‘Nature of Science’ (NoS) has appeared in the science education literature for many decades. While there is still a controversy among science educators...
by Tabatha Houston
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Genre: Pulp Science Fiction Erotica / Golden Age of Science Fiction Whether it's saving Earth with a piece of corn shoved in there, enduring the Royal Rodgering of the Penoids, or being taken by her reverse gender clone, everyone will see why Captain Future's North Am's most famous pulp fiction...
Why Science Fair Sucks and How You Can Save It
A Survival Manual for Science Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Frustrated K-12 science teachers look no further. "Why Science Fair Sucks" provides a simple plan for turning Science Fair from fiasco to triumph.
Science Fair takes hours upon hours of your time and frustrates students to no end. Yet we do it every year. This book explains why Science...
History, Philosophy and Science Teaching
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This anthology opens new perspectives in the domain of history, philosophy, and science teaching research. Its four sections are: first, science, culture and education; second, the teaching and learning of science; third, curriculum development and justification; and fourth, indoctrination.
The...
Imagination of Science in Education
From Epics to Novelization
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Researchers agree that schools construct a particular image of science, in which some characteristics are featured while others end up in oblivion. The result is that although most children are likely to be familiar with images of heroic scientists such as Einstein and Darwin, they rarely learn about...
The Cultural Authority of Science
Comparing across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
The cultural authority of science is the authority that is granted to science in any particular context. This authority is as much a matter of image and perceived legitimacy as of statutory guarantee. However, while authority can be charismatic, based on tradition or based on competence, we would...
Magic, Science, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature
The Alchemical Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This book examines the ways in which contemporary British and British postcolonial writers in the after-empire era draw connections between magic (defined here as Renaissance Hermetic philosophy) and science. Writers such as Tom Stoppard, Zadie Smith, and Margaret Atwood critique both imperial science,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
The Romance of Science pays tribute to the wide-ranging and highly influential work of Trevor Levere, historian of science and author of Poetry Realised in Nature, Transforming Matter, Science and the Canadian Arctic, Affinity and Matter and other significant inquiries in the history of modern science....
International Conference on Science Education 2012 Proceedings
Science Education: Policies and Social Responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
This book contains papers presented at the International Conference on Science Education 2012, ICSE 2012, held in Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. It features the work of science education researchers from around the world addressing a common theme, Science Education: Policies and Social Responsibilities.The...
by P.S.J. (Peet) Schutte
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
How To Swindle by Faking Science then you are going read what is the mother of all the conspiracies in science, which is about how science applies mind control by processing thought control. This is the truth! Science practicing physics about Astronomy, Cosmology and everything to do with Stars, the...
by Albert J. Musmanno Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The magic of Rhyme has made learning easier and more enjoyable for my students and science workshop participants over my 41 years of writing and using my Science poems and songs. Ill share that magic with you through the pages of my book.
Mr. Musmanno invites you to enjoy learning the important...
Technological Development and Science in the Industrial Age
New Perspectives on the Science-Technology Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Historians and philosophers of technology are searching for new approaches to the study of the interaction between science and technology. New conceptual frameworks are necessary since the idea that technology is simply applied science is nothing short of a myth. The papers contained in this volume...