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Direct linkMatthews, Michael R. – Science & Education, 2015
These reflections range over some distinctive features of the journal "Science & Education," they acknowledge in a limited way the many individuals who over the past 25 years have contributed to the success and reputation of the journal, they chart the beginnings of the journal, and they dwell on a few central concerns--clear writing…
Descriptors: Reflection, Journal Articles, Bibliometrics, Science Education
Matthews, Michael R. – Science & Education, 2009
This paper elaborates on the life and publications of Joseph Priestley, the eighteenth-century polymath. The paper outlines his particular place in the European Enlightenment; it stresses the importance of philosophy and worldview in his scientific work on pneumatic chemistry, the composition of air, and his discovery of the process of…
Descriptors: Science History, Botany, Science Instruction, Science Education
Matthews, Michael R. – Science & Education, 2009
A common feature of contemporary science education curricula is the expectation that as well as learning science content, students will learn something "about" science--its nature, its history, how it differs from non-scientific endeavours, and its interactions with culture and society. These curricular pronouncements provide an "open cheque" for…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Sciences, Science Curriculum
Matthews, Michael R. – Science & Education, 2004
Galileo's discovery of the properties of pendulum motion depended on his adoption of the novel methodology of idealisation. Galileo's laws of pendulum motion could not be accepted until the empiricist methodological constraints placed on science by Aristotle, and by common sense, were overturned. As long as scientific claims were judged by how the…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Physics, Laboratory Equipment, Motion
Matthews, Michael R.; Gauld, Colin; Stinner, Arthur – Science & Education, 2004
The study and utilisation of pendulum motion has had immense scientific, cultural, horological, philosophical, and educational impact. The International Pendulum Project (IPP) is a collaborative research effort examining this impact, and demonstrating how historical studies of pendulum motion can assist teachers to improve science education by…
Descriptors: Motion, Scientific Literacy, Teachers, Science Education
Matthews, Michael R. – Science & Education, 2004
This paper documents some of the "bad press" that Positivism has received in science education; it delineates the varied, and sometimes contradictory, ways in which educationalists characterize positivism; it indicates that Constructive shares the same philosophical commitments as the instrumentalist tradition in positivism; and it suggests that…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Natural Sciences, Science Education, Science Instruction
