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Cottey, Alan – Policy Futures in Education, 2012
This article addresses the difference between knowledge-inquiry and wisdom-inquiry in nuclear physics education. In the spirit of an earlier study of 57 senior-level textbooks for first-degree physics students, this work focuses here on a remarkable use of literary quotations in one such book. "Particles and Nuclei: an introduction to the physical…
Descriptors: Nuclear Physics, Role, Textbooks, Writing (Composition)