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Improvement Science in Evaluation: Methods and Uses
New Directions for Evaluation, Number 153
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
While improvement science has experienced a surge of interest over the past 30 years, applications of it are rare in the evaluation literature.
This issue promotes the cross-fertilization of ideas, techniques, and tools between evaluation and improvement science. There are at least four areas...
Education in Political Science
Discovering a neglected field
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline’s analytical perspectives and methodological tools.
The contributions demonstrate how education policy can be explored systematically from a...
Greening Berlin
The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
How plant and animal species conservation became part of urban planning in Berlin, and how the science of ecology contributed to this change.
Although nature conservation has traditionally focused on the countryside, issues of biodiversity protection also appear on the political agendas of...
Europe’s New Scientific Elite
Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Winner of the Harald Kaufmann Prize for Senior Researchers, 2018
This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Based on a study of the European Research...
by Harry Collins
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good. More recently, a series of scientific scandals, frauds and failures have led us to question science’s pre-eminence. Revelations such as Climategate, or debates about the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In this book, nine thought-leaders engage with some of the hottest moral issues in science and ethics. Based on talks originally given at the annual "Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science," the chapters explore interconnections between the three areas in an engaging and accessible...
Be Amazing
How to teach science the way primary kids love
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
From engaging science experiments, effective role-play scenarios and useful digital technologies through to intriguing Maker spaces, colourful science fairs and community collaboration in your school, there are so many ways that you can be the spark that ignites a passion in students for understanding...
Multiscale Paradigms in Integrated Computational Materials Science and Engineering
Materials Theory, Modeling, and Simulation for Predictive Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
This book presents cutting-edge concepts, paradigms, and research highlights in the field of computational materials science and engineering, and provides a fresh, up-to-date perspective on solving present and future materials challenges. The chapters are written by not only pioneers in the fields...
Nuclear Computational Science
A Century in Review
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Nuclear engineering has undergone extensive progress over the years. In the past century, colossal developments have been made and with specific reference to the mathematical theory and computational science underlying this discipline, advances in areas such as high-order discretization methods, Krylov...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Digitalization and computerization are now pervasive in science. This has deep consequences for our understanding of scientific knowledge and of the scientific process, and challenges longstanding assumptions and traditional frameworks of thinking of scientific knowledge. Digital media and computational...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and issues that dominate current scholarly discussion, with contributions from leading international scholars.
Provides...
Mobilizing Science
Movements, Participation, and the Remaking of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Mobilizing Science theoretically and empirically explores the rise of a new kind of social movement—one that attempts to empower citizens through the use of expert scientific research. Sabrina McCormick advances theories of social movements, development, and science and technology studies by examining...
by Oscar Koopman
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Science Education and Pedagogy in South Africa is a contemporary contribution that entices science teachers to ‘re-examine’ or ‘rethink’ the pedagogical strategies they use in their teaching. It offers fresh and exciting teaching approaches that explore new ways to tackle the worrisome problems...
The Marriage of Sense and Soul
Integrating Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
There is arguably no more critical and pressing topic than the relation of science and religion in the modern world. Science has given us the methods for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning. Yet the two are seen as mutually exclusive, with wrenching...