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Communicating Science to the Public
Opportunities and Challenges for the Asia-Pacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
This book explores effective approaches for communicating science to the public in developing countries. Offering multiple perspectives on this important topic, it features 17 chapters that represent the efforts of 23 authors from eight countries: Australia, Bangladesh, India, Ireland, New Zealand,...
Making Sense of Science
Understanding the Social Study of Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2004
`Fluid, readable and accessible ... I found the overall quality of the book to be excellent. It provides an overview of major (and preceding) developments in the field of science studies. It examines landmark works, authors, concepts and approaches ... I will certainly use this book as one of the...
by Mansoor Niaz
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book explores the evolving nature of objectivity in the history of science and its implications for science education. It is generally considered that objectivity, certainty, truth, universality, the scientific method and the accumulation of experimental data characterize both science and science...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Crime science is precisely what it says it is: the application of science to the phenomenon of crime. This handbook, intended as a crime science manifesto, showcases the scope of the crime science field and provides the reader with an understanding of the assumptions, aspirations and methods of crime...
Critical Political Ecology
The Politics of Environmental Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Critical Political Ecology brings political debate to the science of ecology. As political controversies multiply over the science underlying environmental debates, there is an increasing need to understand the relationship between environmental science and politics. In this timely and wide-ranging...
The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview
Volume 2: Towards a Synthesis of Political Economy and Science and Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these...
Science | Environment | Health
Towards a Renewed Pedagogy for Science Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Health and the environment are important learning areas in science education and their significance is growing. Not only do they have high social relevance, but they are also close to students’ interests and needs. They provide many opportunities to unlock science with questions that are personally...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Communicating science and technology is a high priority of many research and policy institutions, a concern of many other private and public bodies, and an established subject of training and education. Over the past few decades, the field has developed and expanded significantly, both in terms of...
Science Funding
Politics and Porkbarrel
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Americans have become resigned to seeing Congress vote money for porkbarrel projects of all kinds-roads, dams, post offices, military installations-in the districts of influential legislators. In recent years Congress has, almost without public notice, extended this form of vote-buying and pandering...
by Ron Pickering
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Exam Board: ISEB
Level: 13+
Subject: Science
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2018
This challenging and stimulating Science course has been reviewed by the ISEB subject editor and covers the content of both Levels 1 and 2 of the 13+ Chemistry exam. Designed for pupils in Years...
Computer Science and Engineering Technology (CSET2015), Medical Science and Biological Engineering (MSBE2015)
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on CSET & MSBE
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This book brings together 106 papers presented at the Joint Conferences of 2015 International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering Technology (CSET2015) and 2015 International Conference on Medical Science and Biological Engineering (MSBE2015), which were held in Hong Kong on 30–31 May...
by Rod Martin, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Science vs. Religion? Why does there need to be any opposition? Science studies the products of creation, while spirituality studies the sources of creation. The two complement each other. Between them, they cover the whole of reality.
“Spirit is Digital — Science is Analog” explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
This book examines the diverse use of visual representations by teachers in the science classroom. It contains unique pedagogies related to the use of visualization, presents original curriculum materials as well as explores future possibilities.
The book begins by looking at the significance...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
What are the key debates in science teaching and learning today?
Debates in Science Education explores the major issues all science teachers encounter in their daily professional lives. It encourages critical reflection and aims to stimulate both novice and experienced teachers to think more...