Challenging Science Standards: A Skeptical Critique of the Quest for Unity - Couverture rigide

Ault Jr., Charles R.

 
9781475818475: Challenging Science Standards: A Skeptical Critique of the Quest for Unity
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1475818475 ISBN 13 : 9781475818475
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015

Synopsis

For several decades educators have struggled to identify the attributes all sciences have in common. In the popular mind this effort constitutes the importance of teaching "the" scientific method. In the policy maker's world this pursuit yields standards for all Americans that unify the sciences. For teachers, the quest for unity has typically meant teaching science as process. However, a curriculum that prioritizes what all sciences have in common obscures their vital differences. For example, studying landslides is very different from doing x-ray diffraction; climate science is unlike medical research. Naïve ideas about scientific unity impoverish the public's ability to evaluate scientific enterprises. Challenging Science Standards voices skepticism towards the quest for unity. Through analyses of disciplinary knowledge, school curricula, and classroom learning, the book uncovers flaws in the unifying dimensions of the science standards. It proposes respect for disciplinary diversity and attention to questions of value in choosing what science to teach. Illuminated by vignettes of children and adolescents studying topics ranging from snail populations to horse fossils, Challenging Science Standards proposes promising remedies.

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À propos de l?auteur

Charles R. Ault, Jr. ("Kip"), professor emeritus, Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, coordinated the school's Master of Arts in Teaching program for science teachers for more than two decades. Kip began his career teaching primary grades and middle school science in Connecticut and Colorado. Author of Do Elephants Have Knees? and Challenging Science Standards, his writing reflects an interest in paleontology and the value of subject diversity in the reform of school science.

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Éditeur
Rowman & Littlefield
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1475818475
ISBN 13 
9781475818475
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
218
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1475818483 ISBN 13 :  9781475818482
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015
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