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ERIC Number: EJ564487
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0926-7220
Social Constructivism, the Gospel of Science, and the Teaching of Physics.
Kragh, Helge
Science and Education, v7 n3 p231-43 May 1998
Offers a critical examination of some of the basic claims of studies that employ ideas from social constructivism and the sociology of scientific knowledge. Argues that social constructivism cannot explain some of the most characteristic features of the physical sciences. Contains 26 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Knowledge Representation, Philosophy, Physics, Science and Society, Science Education, Scientific Literacy, Secondary Education, Sociology
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Denmark
Note: One of the papers selected for presentation at the European Physical Society Interdivisional Conference (Bratislava, Slovakia, 1996).