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Pronskikh, Vitaly; Sorina, Galina V. – Science & Education, 2022
The history and philosophy of science (HPS) plays a special role in education. An elective HPS course on the philosophy of scientific experimentation for young scientists and graduate students of natural science is presented. The course bears a pragmatic character, and its main aims include the development of critical thinking (CT),…
Descriptors: History, Philosophy, Graduate Students, Critical Thinking
García-Carmona, Antonio; Acevedo-Díaz, José Antonio – Science & Education, 2017
This article presents a qualitative study, descriptive-interpretive in profile, of the effectiveness in learning about the nature of science (NOS) of an activity relating to the historical controversy between Pasteur and Liebig on fermentation. The activity was implemented during a course for pre-service secondary science teachers (PSSTs)…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientists, Scientific Concepts, Qualitative Research
Galili, Igal – Science & Education, 2016
Physics textbooks often present items of disciplinary knowledge in a sequential order of topics of the theory under instruction. Such presentation is usually univocal, that is, isolated from alternative claims and contributions regarding the subject matter in the pertinent scientific discourse. We argue that comparing and contrasting the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses
Kragh, Helge – Science & Education, 2015
For more than a century the notion of a pre-established harmony between the mathematical and physical sciences has played an important role not only in the rhetoric of mathematicians and theoretical physicists, but also as a doctrine guiding much of their research. Strongly mathematized branches of physics, such as the vortex theory of atoms…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Physics, Physical Sciences, Interdisciplinary Approach
Seker, Hayati; Guney, Burcu G. – Science & Education, 2012
Although history of science is a potential resource for instructional materials, teachers do not have a tendency to use historical materials in their lessons. Studies showed that instructional materials should be adaptable and consistent with curriculum. This study purports to examine the alignment between history of science and the curriculum in…
Descriptors: Science History, Physics, Instructional Materials, Content Analysis
Tweney, Ryan D. – Science & Education, 2011
James Clerk Maxwell "translated" Michael Faraday's experimentally-based field theory into the mathematical representation now known as "Maxwell's Equations." Working with a variety of mathematical representations and physical models Maxwell extended the reach of Faraday's theory and brought it into consistency with other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Long Term Memory, Equations (Mathematics)
Tala, Suvi – Science & Education, 2011
In physics, the borderline between pure science and technology is increasingly diffuse. Physics can be seen as technoscience, a merged scientific and technological enterprise. The notion of technoscience has emerged from studies in the philosophy of science and sociology of science, and also seems to arise quite naturally in discussions with…
Descriptors: Expertise, Scientific Methodology, Physics, Intellectual Disciplines
Niaz, Mansoor; Klassen, Stephen; McMillan, Barbara; Metz, Don – Science & Education, 2010
The authors of this paper portray the perspective of Professor Leon Cooper, a theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate, active researcher, and physics textbook author, on teaching science and on the nature of science (NOS). The views presented emerged from an interview prepared by the authors and responded to in writing by Professor Cooper. Based on…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Scientific Principles, Physics, Scientists
Klassen, Stephen – Science & Education, 2009
The Millikan oil drop experiment has been characterized as one of the "most beautiful" physics experiments of all time and, certainly, as one of the most frustrating of all the exercises in the undergraduate physics laboratory. A literature review reveals that work done on addressing student difficulties in performing the oil drop experiment has,…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Laboratories, Undergraduate Students, Science History
Kokkotas, Panos; Piliouras, Panagiotis; Malamitsa, Katerina; Stamoulis, Efthymios – Science & Education, 2009
Our paper presents an in-service primary school teachers' training program which is based on the idea that the history of science can play a vital role in promoting the learning of physics. This training program has been developed in the context of Comenius 2.1 which is a European Union program. This program that we have developed in the…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Physics, Teaching Methods, Program Implementation
Kalman, Calvin – Science & Education, 2009
The whole mode of Galileo's discovery of the Law of Inertia is an excellent exemplar of the Nature of Science. The law can, moreover be shown to be a direct consequence of the hypothesis that space is homogeneous and isotropic and time is homogeneous.
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science History, Scientific Concepts, Scientists
Caleon, Imelda; Ramanathan, Subramaniam – Science & Education, 2008
This paper presents the early investigations about the nature of sound of the Pythagoreans, and how they started a tradition that remains valid up to present times--the use of numbers in representing natural reality. It will touch on the Pythagorean notion of musical harmony, which was extended to the notion of universal harmony. How the…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Physics, Music, Scientific Concepts
Rolin, Kristina – Science & Education, 2008
Physics education reform movements should pay attention to feminist analyses of gender in the culture of physics for two reasons. One reason is that feminist analyses contribute to an understanding of a "chilly climate" women encounter in many physics university departments. Another reason is that feminist analyses reveal that certain styles of…
Descriptors: Feminism, Physics, Educational Change, Epistemology
Hochadel, Oliver – Science & Education, 2007
While it is a commonplace in the historiography of electricity that itinerant lecturers and instrument makers were "somehow" part of the "electrical flare" of the 18th century, very little is actually known about them, about their background, their careers and their self-understanding. Yet, research focusing on these…
Descriptors: Physics, Science History, Energy, Equipment
Stuewer, Roger H. – Science & Education, 2006
The capsule histories of physics that students learn in their physics courses stem basically, I believe, from a linear view of history--that physicists in making fundamental discoveries follow a Royal Road to them, as Hermann von Helmholtz put it in 1892. The actual routes they follow, however, are generally nonlinear, and when historians display…
Descriptors: Physics, Science History, Scientists, Experiments