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  • 1
    ISBN: 9789402410631
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 488 p. 66 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 29
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rocci, Andrea Modality in argumentation
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    Keywords: Logic ; Language and languages Philosophy ; Semantics ; Sociolinguistics ; Linguistics ; Language and languages Philosophy ; Linguistics ; Logic ; Semantics ; Sociolinguistics ; Modalität ; Argumentationstheorie ; Argumentstruktur ; Italienisch ; Modalität
    Abstract: This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin’s seminal book on the uses of argument. The first question is the one of the relationship between the semantic analysis of modality and the structure of arguments. The second question is the one of the distinctive place, or role, of modality in the fundamental structure of arguments. These two questions concern how modality, as a semantic category, relates to the fundamental structure of arguments. The book addresses modality and argumentation also according to another perspective by looking at how different linguistic modal expressions may be taken as argumentative indicators. It explores the role of modal expressions as argumentative indicators by using the Italian modal system as a case study. At the same time, it uses predictions/forecasts in the business-financial daily press to investigate the relation between modality and the context of argumentation
    Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Meaning and argumentation -- Chapter 2: Three views of modality in Toulmin -- Chapter 3: Relative modality and argumentation -- Chapter 4: Types of conversational backgrounds and arguments -- Chapter 5: Case studies of Italian modal constructions in context -- Conclusion -- Index
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9789402409703
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 277 p. 4 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 42
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Modern philosophy ; Philosophy of nature ; Political philosophy ; History
    Abstract: This volume brings together recent scholarly contributions on Hermann by physicists, historians and philosophers of science, and philosophers and educators following in Hermann’s steps. Also included are translations of Hermann’s two most important essays, in the foundations of physics and in ethics. The former is here translated into English for the first time. Those interested in the many fields Hermann contributed to will find here a comprehensive discussion of her philosophy of physics that places it in the context of her wider work. Grete Hermann (1901-1984) was a pupil of mathematical physicist Emmy Noether, follower and co-worker of neo-Kantian philosopher Leonard Nelson, and an important intellectual figure in post-war German social democracy. She is also known for her work on the philosophy of modern physics in the 1930s, some of which emerged from intense discussions with Heisenberg and Weizsäcker in Leipzig. Hermann’s avowed aim was to counter the perceived threat to the Kantian notion of causality stemming from the new quantum mechanics. She not only succeeded to her satisfaction, but also discussed in depth the question of ‘hidden variables’ (including the first critique of von Neumann’s alleged impossibility proof) and provided an extensive analysis of Bohr’s notion of complementarity. Her work places her in the first rank among philosophers who wrote about modern physics in the first half of the last century
    Abstract: Introduction: G. Bacciagaluppi and E.Crull -- Philosophical background of Grete Hermann's work: F. Leal Carratero -- Hermann's road to Leipzig and the 1935 essay: E. Crull -- Understanding Hermann's philosophy of nature: G. Paparo -- Grete Hermann's pioneering contribution to the philosophy of quantum physics: An attempt to reconcile quantum mechanics with transcendental philosophy: L.Soler -- Changing perspectives on Heisenberg's microscope thought experiment: M. Frappier -- C.F.von Wiezsäcker's article on the Heisenberg microscope and its influence on Grete Hermann's notion of 'relative causation': T.Filk -- Challenging the gospel: Grete Hermann on von Neumann's no-hidden-variables proof: M. Seevinck -- Grete Hermann and the 'Copenhagen Interpretation': G. Bacciagaluppi.-Panel discussion on Grete Hermann's ethics and politics: D. Krohn, F. Leal Carretero and R. Saran -- General Discussion -- The natural-philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics: G. Hermann -- Conquering chance: G. Hermann
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9789401773461
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXV, 200 p)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2016
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 219
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: History ; Printing ; Publishers and publishing ; Ethics ; History ; Printing ; Publishers and publishing ; Ethics
    Abstract: Tracking the relationship between the theory of press control and the realities of practicing daily press censorship prior to publication, this volume on the suppression of dissent in early modern Europe tackles a topic with many elusive and under-researched characteristics. Pre-publication censorship was common in absolutist regimes in Catholic and Protestant countries alike, but how effective it was in practice remains open to debate. The Netherlands and England, where critical content segued into outright lampoonery, were unusual for hard-wired press freedoms that arose, respectively, from a highly competitive publishing industry and highly decentralized political institutions. These nations remained extraordinary exceptions to a rule that, for example in France, did not end until the revolution of 1789. Here, the author’s European perspective provides a survey of the varying censorship regulations in European nations, as well as the shifting meanings of ‘freedom of the press’. The analysis opens up fascinating insights, afforded by careful reading of primary archival sources, into the reactions of censors confronted with manuscripts by authors seeking permission to publish. Tortarolo sets the opinions on censorship of well-known writers, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, alongside the commentary of anonymous censors, allowing us to revisit some common views of eighteenth-century history. How far did these writers, their reasoning stiffened by Enlightenment values, promote dissident views of absolutist monarchies in Europe, and what insights did governments gain from censors’ reports into the social tensions brewing under their rule? These questions will excite dedicated researchers, graduate students, and discerning lay readers alike
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9789401794961
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 289 p. 50 illus, online resource)
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    Keywords: Science History ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science History ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: This book celebrates dioramas as a unique and essential learning tool for biological education for all. It provides information about their historical development, the technique of taxidermy and diorama construction from the past and the modern developments as well as aspects of interpretation and learning processes. The fresh and unique compilation brings together experts from a number of different countries, from the west coast of the USA, across Europe to China. It describes the journey of dioramas from their inception through development to visions of their future. A complementary journey is that of visitors and their individual sense making and construction of their understanding from their own starting points, often interacting with others (e.g. teachers, peers, parents) as well as media (e.g. labels). Dioramas have been, hitherto, a rather neglected area of museum exhibits but a renaissance is beginning for them and their educational importance in contributing to people’s understanding of the natural world. This volume shows how dioramas can reach a wide audience and increase access to biological knowledge
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction, Sue Dale Tunnicliffe, London (UK) & Annette Scheersoi, Bonn (D)I. History and Features of Natural History Dioramas -- I.1 History of Dioramas, Claudia Kamcke, Braunschweig, & Rainer Hutterer, Bonn (D) -- I.2 Dioramas as historical documents, Rainer Hutterer, Bonn (D) -- I.3 A window on the world - wildlife dioramas, Pat Morris, Ascot (US) -- I.4 Dioramas as constructs of reality: Art, photography, and the discursive space, Geraldine Howie (UK) -- I.5 James Perry Wilson: Shifting paradigms of natural history diorama painting, Michael Anderson, Yale (US) -- II. Resurrecting and Modern Dioramas -- II.1 Dioramas in Natural History Museum - Tools for nature conservation, John Borg, Mdina (MT) -- II.2 Using technology to deepen and extend visitor’s interaction with dioramas, Mark Loveland, Barbara Buckley & Edys Quellmalz, WestEd (US) -- II.3 Displaying Ecological Landscapes by Dioramas - an example provided by Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, Ximin Kang, Zhejiang (CHN) -- II.4 Conservative restoration and reconstruction of historical Natural History Dioramas, Mareike Munsch, Hartmut Schmiese, Aleksandra Angelov, Gunnar Riedel & Jörn Köhler, Darmstadt (D) -- III. Learning at dioramas -- III.1 Dioramas as important tools in biological education, Sue Dale Tunnicliffe & Annette Scheersoi -- III.2 Catching the visitor’s interest, Annette Scheersoi -- III. 3 Naming and narratives at dioramas, Sue Dale Tunnicliffe -- III.4 The evolution of the narrative at natural history dioramas, Alix Cotumaggio, New York (US) -- III.5 Imaginary places: Museum visitor perceptions of habitat dioramas, Phaedra Livingstone, Oregon (US) -- III.6 Habitat dioramas and sense of place: Factors linked to visitors’ feelings about the natural places portrayed in dioramas, Cecilia Garibay & Eric D. Gyllenhaal, Chicago (US) -- III.7 The Human connection: Enactors and the facilitated diorama experience, Kathleen Tinworth, Denver (US) -- III.8 Storytelling and performance in diorama galleries, Keith Dunmall, Birchington on Sea (UK) -- III.9 The diorama as a means for biodiversity education, Martha Marandino, Sao Paolo (Brazil), Marianne Achiam, Copenhagen (DK) & Adriano Oliveira, Sao Paolo (Brazil) -- III.10 Interpreting through drawings, Edward Mifsud, Malta (MT) -- Conclusion, Michael Reiss, London (UK).
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9789401793643
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 233 p. 10 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 306
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Philosophy of chemistry
    Keywords: History ; Chemistry ; Chemie ; Philosophie
    Abstract: This volume follows the earlier successful book in the same series, which helped to introduce and spread the Philosophy of Chemistry to a wider audience of philosophers, historians, and science educators, as well as chemists, physicists and biologists. The introduction summarizes the way in which the field has developed in the ten years since the previous volume was conceived and introduces several new authors who did not contribute to the earlier book. The editors are well placed to assemble this book, as they are the editor in chief and deputy editors of the leading academic journal in the field, Foundations of Chemistry. The philosophy of chemistry remains a somewhat neglected field, unlike the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of biology. Why there has been little philosophical attention to the central discipline of chemistry among the three natural sciences is a theme that is explored by several of the contributors. This volume will do a great deal to redress this imbalance. Among the themes covered is the question of reduction of chemistry to physics, the reduction of biology to chemistry, whether true chemical laws exist and causality in chemistry. In addition more general questions of the nature of organic chemistry, biochemistry and chemical synthesis are examined by specialist in these areas
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9789401794121
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 490 p. 54 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 307
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Embryology ; Evolution (Biology) ; History ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Embryology ; Evolution (Biology) ; History
    Abstract: This volume explores questions about conceptual change from both scientific and philosophical viewpoints by analyzing the recent history of evolutionary developmental biology. It features revised papers that originated from the workshop "Conceptual Change in Biological Science: Evolutionary Developmental Biology, 1981-2011" held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin in July 2010. In these papers, philosophers and biologists compare and contrast key concepts in evolutionary developmental biology and their development since the original, seminal Dahlem conference on evolution and development held in Berlin in 1981. Many of the original scientific participants from the 1981 conference are also contributors to this new volume and, in conjunction with other expert biologists and philosophers specializing on these topics, provide an authoritative, comprehensive view on the subject. Taken together, the papers supply novel perspectives on how and why the conceptual landscape has shifted and stabilized in particular ways, yielding insights into the dynamic epistemic changes that have occurred over the past three decades. This volume will appeal to philosophers of biology studying conceptual change, evolutionary developmental biologists focused on comprehending the genesis of their field and evaluating its future directions, and historians of biology examining this period when the intersection of evolution and development rose again to prominence in biological science
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Conceptual Change and Evolutionary Developmental Biology; Alan C. LovePART I: ADAPTATION, ALLOMETRY, HETEROCHRONY AND HOMOPLASY -- Chapter 2: Adaptive Aspects of Development: A Thirty-year Perspective on the Relevance of Biomechanical and Allometric Analyses; Karl Niklas -- Chapter 3: Do Functional Requirements for Embryos and Larvae Have a Place in Evo-devo? Richard Strathmann -- Chapter 4: Is Heterochrony Still an Effective Paradigm for Contemporary Studies of Evo-devo? James Hanken -- Chapter 5: Homoplasy, a Moving Target; David Wake -- PART II: PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY, DEVELOPMENTAL VARIATION AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY -- Chapter 6: The Concept of Phenotypic Plasticity and the Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity in Life History Traits; Stephen Stearns -- Chapter 7: A Developmental-physiological Perspective on the Development and Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity; H. Fred Nijhout -- Chapter 8: Cellular Basis of Morphogenetic Change: A Retrospective from the Vantage Point of Developmental Signaling Pathways; John Gerhart -- Chapter 9: The Road to Facilitated Variation; Marc Kirschner -- PART III: MODELS, LARVAE, PHYLA AND PALEONTOLOGY -- Chapter 10: Phyla, Phylogeny, and Embryonic Body Plans; Gary Freeman -- Chapter 11: Evo-devo and the Evolution of Marine Larvae: From the Modern World to the Dawn of the Metazoa; Rudolf Raff -- Chapter 12: Dahlem 1981: Before and Beyond; Armand de Ricqlès -- Chapter 13: What Salamander Biologists Have Taught Us about Evo-devo; James Griesemer -- PART IV: CONSTRAINT AND EVOLVABILITY -- Chapter 14: From Developmental Constraint to Evolvability: How Concepts Figure in Explanation and Disciplinary Identity; Ingo Brigandt -- Chapter 15: Reinventing the Organism: Evolvability and Homology in Post-Dahlem Evolutionary Biology; Günter Wagner -- Chapter 16: Internal Factors in Evolution: The Morphogenetic Tree, Developmental Bias, and Some Thoughts on the Conceptual Structure of Evo-devo; Wallace Arthur -- Chapter 17: Entrenchment as a Theoretical Tool in Evolutionary Developmental Biology; William Wimsatt -- PART V: HIERARCHIES AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY -- Chapter 18: Hierarchies and Integration in Evolution and Development; Marvalee Wake -- Chapter 19: Development and Evolution: The Physics Connection; Stuart Newman -- Chapter 20: The Interaction of Research Systems in the Evo-devo Juncture; Elihu Gerson -- Chapter 21: Evo-devo as a Trading Zone; Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9789401791816
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 592 p. 112 illus., 18 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Advances in Mathematics Education
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Approaches to Qualitative Research in Mathematics Education
    Keywords: Curriculum planning ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Mathematikunterricht
    Abstract: This volume documents a range of qualitative research approaches emerged within mathematics education over the last three decades, whilst at the same time revealing their underlying methodologies. Continuing the discussion as begun in the two 2003 ZDM issues dedicated to qualitative empirical methods, this book presents astate of the art overview on qualitative research in mathematics education and beyond. The structure of the book allows the reader to use it as an actual guide for the selection of an appropriate methodology, on a basis of both theoretical depth and practical implications. The methods and examples illustrate how different methodologies come to life when applied to a specific question in a specific context. Many of the methodologies described are also applicable outside mathematics education, but the examples provided are chosen so as to situate the approach in a mathematical context
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9789401793704
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 213 p. 13 illus., 11 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Cultural Studies of Science Education 11
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Early childhood education ; Education
    Abstract: This book provides an account of children’s science learning beyond the traditional constructivist and social-constructivist view. It conceptualises science as a body of knowledge that humans have constructed (historically) and reconstructed (contemporary) to meet human needs. As such, this human invention acts as an evolving cultural tool for supporting and helping to understand everyday life. Drawing upon cultural-historical theory, the book theorises early childhood science education in relation to current globalised education contexts. Its aim is to advance the understanding of the many ways that science concepts are learned by very young children. The book presents a theoretical discussion of the cultural-historical foundation for early childhood science education. It examines contemporary theories of learning and development within the general field of early childhood education. This theoretical examination allows for the foundational pedagogical context of young learners to be interrogated. This kind of analysis makes it possible to examine play-based contexts in relation to opportunities for scientific conceptual development of young children. From a cultural-historical point of view, and taking into account relevant empirical literature, the book introduces and promotes a more relevant approach to the teaching of science and for the development of young children’s scientific thinking. The book ends with presenting a pedagogical model for introducing scientific concepts to young children in play-based settings
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  • 9
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    ISBN: 9789401793490
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 210 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life 2
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Aesthetics ; History ; Religion (General) ; Philosophy
    Abstract: This notable collection provides an interdisciplinary platform for prominent thinkers who have all made significant recent contributions to exploring the nexus of philosophy and narrative. It includes the latest assessments of several key positions in the current philosophical debate. These perspectives underpin a range of thematic strands exploring the influence of narrative on notions of selfhood, identity, temporal experience, and the emotions, among others. Drawing from the humanities, literature, history and religious studies as well as philosophy, the volume opens with papers on narrative intelligence and the relationship between narrative and agency. It features special sections of in-depth commentary on a range of topics. How, for example, do narrative and philosophical biography interact? Do celebrated biographical and autobiographical accounts of the lives of philosophers contribute to our understanding of their work? This new volume has a substantive remit that incorporates the intercultural religious view of philosophy’s links to narrative together with its many secular aspects. A valuable new resource for more advanced scholars in all its constituent disciplines, it represents a significant addition to the literature of this richly productive area of research
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  • 10
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    ISBN: 9789401797290
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 197 p. 4 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research 13
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Nation-building and history education in a global culture
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    Keywords: Curriculum planning ; Education, Higher ; History ; Education ; Schulbildung ; Geschichtsunterricht ; Erziehungsziel ; Relation ; Globalisierung ; Geschichtsbild ; Nationenbildung ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Identitätsentwicklung ; Kulturelle Identität ; Theorie ; Praxis ; Erde
    Abstract: This book examines the nexus between nation-building and history education globally and the implication for cultural diversity and social justice. It studies some of the major education reforms and policy issues in history education in a global culture, and regards them in the light of recent shifts in history education and policy research. In doing so, the volume provides a comprehensive picture of the intersecting and diverse discourses of globalisation, history education and policy-driven reforms. It makes clear that the impact of globalisation on education policy and reforms is a strategically significant issue for us all. The book focuses on the importance of nation-building and patriotism in history education, and presents up-to-date research on global trends in history education reforms and policy research. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concerns in the field of globalisation, history education and policy research
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  • 11
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    ISBN: 9789401795050
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 390 p. 15 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Research in early childhood science education
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    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Early childhood education ; Education ; Early childhood education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht ; Vorschulerziehung ; Grundschulunterricht
    Abstract: This book emphasizes the significance of teaching science in early childhood classrooms, reviews the research on what young children are likely to know about science, and provides key points on effectively teaching science to young children. Science education, an integral part of national and state standards for early childhood classrooms, encompasses not only content-based instruction but also process skills, creativity, experimentation, and problem-solving. By introducing science in developmentally appropriate ways, we can support young children’s sensory explorations of their world and provide them with foundational knowledge and skills for lifelong science learning, as well as an appreciation of nature. This book emphasizes the significance of teaching science in early childhood classrooms, reviews the research on what young children are likely to know about science, and provides key points on effectively teaching young children science. Common research methods used in the reviewed studies are identified, methodological concerns are discussed, and methodological and theoretical advances are suggested
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9789401796736
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 502 p. 30 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 36
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Unifying the Philosophy of Truth
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy
    Abstract: This anthology of the very latest research on truth features the work of recognized luminaries in the field, put together following a rigorous refereeing process. Along with an introduction outlining the central issues in the field, it provides a unique and unrivaled view of contemporary work on the nature of truth, with papers selected from key conferences in 2011 such as Truth Be Told (Amsterdam), Truth at Work (Paris), Paradoxes of Truth and Denotation (Barcelona) and Axiomatic Theories of Truth (Oxford). Studying the nature of the concept of ‘truth’ has always been a core role of philosophy, but recent years have been a boom time in the topic. With a wealth of recent conferences examining the subject from various angles, this collection of essays recognizes the pressing need for a volume that brings scholars up to date on the arguments. Offering academics and graduate students alike a much-needed repository of today’s cutting-edge work in this vital topic of philosophy, the volume is required reading for anyone needing to keep abreast of developments, and is certain to act as a catalyst for further innovation and research
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionPart 1. Truth and Natural Language -- ‘Truth Predicates’ in Natural Language; Friederike Moltmann,- Truth and Language, Natural and Formal; John Collins -- Truth and Trustworthiness ; Michael Sheard -- Part 2. Uses of Truth -- Putting Davidson’s Semantics to Work to Solve Frege’s Paradox on Concept and Object; Philippe de Rouilhan -- Sets, truth, and recursion; Reinhard Kahle -- Unfolding feasible arithmetic and weak truth; Sebastian Eberhard and Thomas Strahm -- Some remarks on the finite theory of revision; Ricardo Bruni -- Part 3. Truth as a Substantial Notion -- Truth as a Composite Correspondence; Gila Sher -- Complexity and Hierarchy in Truth Predicates; Michael Glanzberg -- Can Deflationism Account for the Norm of Truth?; Pascal Engel -- Part 4. Deflationism and Conservativity -- Norms For Theories Of Reflexive Truth; Volker Halbach and Leon Horsten -- Some weak theories of truth; Graham E. Leigh -- Deflationism and Instrumentalism; Martin Fischer -- Typed and Untyped Disquotational Truth; Cezary Cieśliński -- New Constructions Of Satisfaction Classes; Ali Enayat and Albert Visser -- Part 5. Truth Without Paradox -- Truth, Pretense and the Liar Paradox; Bradley Armour-Garb and James A. Woodbridge -- Groundedness, Truth and Dependence; Denis Bonnay and Floris Tijmen van Vugt -- On Stratified Truth; A. Cantini -- Part 6. Inferentialism and Revisionary Approach -- Truth, Signi_cation and Paradox; Stephen Read -- Vagueness, truth and permissive consequence; Pablo Cobreros, Paul Egré, David Ripley, Robert van Rooij.-  Validity and Truth-Preservation; Julien Murzi and Lionel Shapiro -- Getting One for Two, or the Contractors' Bad Deal. Towards a Uni_ed Solution to the Semantic Paradoxes; Zardini -- Kripke’s Thought-Paradox and the 5th Antinomy; Graham Priest.
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9789400777934
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 412 p. 30 illus., 20 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Keywords: Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Education, Higher ; Engineering ; Education ; Education ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Education, Higher ; Engineering
    Abstract: Drawing on data generated by the EU’s Interests and Recruitment in Science (IRIS) project, this volume examines the issue of young people’s participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. With an especial focus on female participation, the chapters offer analysis deploying varied theoretical frameworks, including sociology, social psychology, and gender studies. The material also includes reviews of relevant research in science education, and summaries of empirical data concerning student choices in STEM disciplines in five European countries. Featuring both quantitative and qualitative analyses, the book makes a substantial contribution to the developing theoretical agenda in STEM education. It augments available empirical data and identifies strategies in policy-making that could lead to improved participation-and gender balance-in STEM disciplines. The majority of the chapter authors are IRIS project members, with additional chapters written by specially invited contributors. The book provides researchers and policy makers alike with a comprehensive and authoritative exploration of the core issues in STEM educational participation
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Participation in science and technology education - presenting the challenge and introducing project IRISSection 1:Theoretical perspectives on educational choice -- Chapter 1: Expectancy-value perspectives on STEM choice in late-modern societies -- Chapter 2. A narrative approach to understand students’ identities and choices -- Chapter 3: Gender, STEM studies and educational choices. Insights from feminist perspectives -- Section 2: Interest and participation in STEM from primary school to phD -- Chapter 4: STEM attitudes, interests and career choice -- Chapter 5: Science aspirations and gender identity: Lessons from the ASPIRES project -- Chapter 6: The impact of science curriculum content on students’ subject choices in post-compulsory schooling -- Chapter 7: A place for STEM: Probing the reasons for undergraduate course choices -- Chapter 8: Short stories of educational choice - in the words of science and technology students -- Chapter 9: Understanding declining science participation in Australia: A systemic perspective -- Chapter 10: Choice patterns of PhD students: why should i pursue a PhD? -- Chapter 11: The impact of outreach and out-of-school activities on Norwegian upper secondary students’ STEM motivations -- Section 3: Staying in STEM, leaving STEM? -- Chapter 12: Why do students in stem higher education programmes drop/opt out? Explanations offered from research -- Chapter 13: What makes them leave and where do they go? Non-completion and institutional departures in STEM -- Chapter 14: The first-year experience: Students’ encounter with science and engineering programmes -- Chapter 15: Keeping pace. Educational choice motivations and first-year experiences in the words of Italian students -- Section 4: Applying feminist perspectives to understand STEM participation -- Chapter 16: When research challenges gender stereotypes: Exploring narratives of girls’ educational choices -- Chapter 17: Italian female and male students’ choices: STEM studies and motivations -- Chapter 18: Being a woman in a man’s place or being a man in a women’s place: insights into students’ experiences of science and engineering at university -- Chapter 19: Italian students’ ideas about gender and science in late modern societies. interpretations from a feminist perspective -- Section 5: Understanding and improving STEM participation: Conclusions and recommendations -- Chapter 20: Understanding student participation and choice in science and technology education: The contribution of IRIS -- Chapter 21: Improving participation in science and technology higher education: Ways forward -- Appendix: The IRIS questionnaire: Brief account of instrument development, data collection and respondents.
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    ISBN: 9789401799669
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXII, 1000 p. 5 illus, online resource)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2015
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 216
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Models of the history of philosophy ; vol. 3: The second enlightenment and the Kantian age
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; History
    Abstract: This is the third volume of Models of the History of Philosophy, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The volume covers a decisive period in the history of modern thought, from Voltaire and the great “Encyclopédie” of Diderot and D'Alembert to the age of Kant, i.e. from the histoire de l'esprit humain animated by the idea of progress to the a priori history of human thought. The interest of the philosophes and the Kantians (Buhle and Tennemann) in the study and the reconstruction of the philosophies of the past was characterized by a spirit that was highly critical, but at the same time systematic. The material is divided into four large linguistic and cultural areas: the French, Italian, British and German. The detailed analysis of the 35 works which can be considered to be “general” histories of philosophy is preceded and accompanied by lengthy introductions on the historical background and references to numerous other works bordering on philosophical historiography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I The History of Philosophy and the histoire de l’esprit humain in France Between the Encyclopaedia and the Revolution1. The History of Philosophy in the Encyclopédie -- 2. The Impact of the esprit des lumières on the History of Philosophy -- 3. Religious Apologetics and Historiographical Practice -- Part II. The Historiography of Philosophy in Italy in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century -- 4. The Enlightenment, Erudition and Religious Apologetics -- 5. The Historiography of Philosophy: from School Textbooks to Works for a Wider Readership -- 6. Theism and the History of Philosophy -- Part III The Historiography of Philosophy in Great Britain -- 7. The Scottish Enlightenment and “Philosophical History”. Part IV The Historiography of Philosophy in Germany in the Late Enlightenment -- 8. Textbooks after Brucker -- 9. The Göttingen School and Popular philosophie -- Part V The Historiography of Philosophy in Germany in the Age of Kant -- 10. Philosophy and Historiography: The Kantian Turning-Point -- 11. The Historiographical Developments of Kantianism -- Index of Names -- Index of “Nations”, Philosophical Schools and “Sects”.
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    ISBN: 9789401793001
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 156 p. 15 illus., 1 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Cultural Studies of Science Education 10
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Hewson, Mariana G. Embracing indigenous knowledge in science and medical teaching
    Keywords: Medical Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Medical Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Südafrika ; Volksmedizin ; Lokales Wissen ; Wissensvermittlung
    Abstract: This book describes the gaps and commonalities in African and Western ways of knowing concerning science and medicine. It reflects a personal journey in teaching science and trans-cultural medicine in the African setting. In addition, it describes how the author became an initiate as a traditional healer in Zimbabwe. The book combines educational theory, research and lived experiences of teaching in southern Africa with the ideas of the indigenous healers of the region. Incorporating new knowledge of African indigenous knowledge and traditional healers, the book provides insights about, and suggestions for teaching and caring that are both surprising and energizing for our future
    Description / Table of Contents: PrologueChapter 1: Different Ways of Knowing -- SECTION B: SCIENCE EDUCATION -- Chapter 2: History of Science Teaching in Southern Africa -- Chapter 3: Teaching Science in Southern Africa -- SECTION C: MEDICAL EDUCATION AND PRACTICE -- Chapter 4: Challenges of Medicine Across the Cultural Divide -- Chapter 5: African Healing and Traditional Healers -- Chapter 6: Educating Traditional Healers -- SECTION D: IMPLICATIONS FOR SCIENCE AND CLINICAL TEACHING -- Chapter 7: Research on Indigenous Knowledge in South Africa and Lesotho -- Chapter 8: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge with Science Teaching -- Chapter 9: Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge into Clinical Teaching -- SECTION E: FINALE -- Chapter 10: Epilogue -- VIDEO: We Can Teach the Children -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9789400727489
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 449 p. 101 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education 41
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    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Environmental law ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Environmental law ; Schulpolitik ; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Ressource
    Abstract: Today’s youth will face global environmental changes, as well as complex personal and social challenges. To address these issues this collection of essays provides vital insights on how science education can be designed to better engage students and help them solve important problems in the world around them. Assessing Schools for Generation R (Responsibility) includes theories, research, and practices for envisioning how science and environmental education can promote personal, social, and civic responsibility. It brings together inspiring stories, creative practices, and theoretical work to make the case that science education can be reformed so that students learn to meaningfully apply the concepts they learn in science classes across America and grow into civically engaged citizens. The book calls for a curriculum that equips students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to confront the complex and often ill-defined socioscientific issues of daily life. The authors are all experienced educators and top experts in the fields of science and environmental education, ecology, experiential education, educational philosophy, policy and history. They examine what has to happen in the domains of teacher preparation and public education to effect a transition of the youth of America. This exciting, informative, sophisticated and sometimes provocative book will stimulate much debate about the future direction of science education in America, and the rest of the world. It is ideal reading for all school superintendents, deans, faculty, and policymakers looking for a way to implement a curriculum that helps builds students into responsible and engaged citizens
    Description / Table of Contents: Praise for Assessing Schools for Generation R (Responsibility); Foreword; Arthur J. Stewart: Responsibility; Contents; Chapter 1: Reclaiming Community As We Rethink Assessment; Roadmap for the Book; A Mission for Readers; Part I: Generation R (Responsibility); Chapter 2: Introducing Generation R; A Cultural Norm of Social Responsibility and Activism; Baby Boomers: A Generation of Social Activism; Back to the Future: A Renewed Sense of Social Activism; Embodied Knowing and Generation R Youth; School Policy in Science Education; The Intellect of Embodied Reasoning; Note; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3: Civic Responsibility and Science EducationA Look Back; The Common School Movement; The Movement Toward Uncommon Schools; Science Instruction in the Twenty-First Century; References; Chapter 4: Critical Civic Literacy and the Limits of Consumer-Based Citizenship; Neoliberalism and the Shift to Consumer Citizenship; Colorwashing Consumer-Citizens: Buy Green, Buy Pink; Consumer Citizenship's Dirty Hands in Science Education; Critical Civic Literacy Within Science Education; Alternatives to Consumer Citizenship: Life Beyond the Shops; Implications for Science Education Policy
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 5: Fostering Independence: Assessing Student Development; (Dis)Ability: Focusing on What Students Bring to Classrooms; Florida: Race to Uniformity; PISA: "A Wake-Up Call"; Minnesota: The Way We Were; Capitalizing on Kyle's Knowledge: How Teachers Can Support Generation R; Tying It All Together; References; Chapter 6: Assessing Interdependent Responsibility; Introduction; What Does Educating for Responsibility Mean? Considering Learning and Assessment Within Three Types of Responsibilities; But Don't We Need to Depend on Each Other?
    Description / Table of Contents: But Is Independent Responsibility Sufficient?Concluding Thoughts; Notes; References; Part II: Responsibility with Scientific Literacy, Environmental Literacy and Experiential Learning; Chapter 7: Thinking (Scientifically) Responsibly: The Cultivation of Character in a Global Science Education Community; A Community Worldview of Science; Actions, Character, and Scientific Responsibility; Thinking and Acting in a Pluralistic World; Science Education as a Human Activity: Shared Social Inquiry; Conscience of Craft Through Socioscientific Reasoning
    Description / Table of Contents: Fostering Responsible Scientific Thinking Through AgencyThe Formation of Character in Science Education; References; Chapter 8: Assessment of Socio-scientific Reasoning: Linking Progressive Aims of Science Education to the Realities of Modern Education; Relating This Chapter to the Previous Chapter; Socio-scientific Reasoning; Origins of the Construct; Defining the Construct; Socio-scientific Reasoning and Policy; Assessment of Socio-scientific Reasoning; Teaching for Socio-scientific Reasoning; Where We Go from Here…; Appendix: SSIQ Prompt and Questions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 9: Assessment Across Boundaries: How High-Quality Student Work Demonstrates Achievement, Shapes Practice, and Improves Communities
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Reclaiming Community As We Rethink Assessment By Deborah J. Tippins, Arthur J. Stewart, and Michael P. MuellerGENERATION R (RESPONSIBILITY) -- Chapter 2 Introducing Generation R By Michael P. Mueller and Rachel A. Luther -- Chapter 3 Civic Responsibility and Science Education By Paul Theobald and John Siskar -- Chapter 4 Critical Civic Literacy and the Limits of Consumer-Based Citizenship By Cori Jakubiak and Michael P. Mueller -- Chapter 5 Fostering Independence: Assessing Student Development By Danielle V. Dennis -- Chapter 6 Assessing for Interdependent Responsibility By Molly Lawrence and Rosalie Romano -- RESPONSIBILITY WITH SCIENTIFIC LITERACY, ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING -- Chapter 7 Thinking (Scientifically) Responsibly: The Cultivation of Character in a Global Science Education Community By Dana L. Zeidler, Marvin W. Berkowitz and Kory Bennett -- Chapter 8 Assessment of Socio-scientific Reasoning: Linking Progressive Aims of Science Education to the Realities of Modern Education By Troy D. Sadler -- Chapter 9 Assessment Across Boundaries: How High-Quality Student Work Demonstrates Achievement, Shapes Practice, and Improves Communities By Alison Rheingold, Jayson Seaman and Ron Berger -- Chapter 10 The View from the Top of the Plateau By Fred N. Finley, Brad Johnson, and Hallie Kamesch -- Chapter 11 Benefits of Elementary Environmental Education By Ryan J. Brock and David T. Crowther -- Chapter 12 Teaching Earth Smarts: Equipping the Next Generation with the Capacity to Adapt By Bryan H. Nichols -- RESPONSIBILITY WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES -- Chapter 13 Digital Technologies and Assessment in the 21st Century Schooling By Jing Lei, Ji Shen and Laurene Johnson -- Chapter 14 New Interoperable Web Tools to Facilitate Decision-making to Support Community Sustainability By Elizabeth R. Smith, Anne C. Neale, C. Richard Ziegler, and Laura E. Jackson -- Chapter 15 Is There an App For That? Connecting Local Knowledge with Scientific Literacy By George E. Glasson -- Chapter 16 Developing Collective Decision-making through Future Learning Environments By Gillian Roehrig, David Groos and S. Selcen Guzey -- Chapter 17 GameWerks Camp: Using Gaming to Foster Learning by Design By Lucas John Jensen, Gregory M. Francom, Deborah J. Tippins and Michael Orey -- Chapter 18 The Power of the Globe and Geospatial Technologies to Empower Teachers and Students in the Digital Age By Rita A. Hagevik -- RESPONSIBILITY WITH DEVELOPING LIFELONG RELATIONSHIPS -- Chapter 19 The Importance of Cultural Studies for Education: For Teachers and Policymakers in America By Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon -- Chapter 20 Culture, Environment, and Education in the Anthropocene By David A. Greenwood -- Chapter 21 Science Education in and for Turbulent Times By Kenneth Tobin -- Chapter 22 Free Choice Science Learning and Generation R By Lynn Dierking -- Chapter 23 Educating for Scientific Literacy, Citizenship, and Sustainability: Learning from Native Hawaiian Perspectives By Pauline W.U. Chinn -- Chapter 24 From Local Observations to Global Relationships By Xavier Fazio and Doug Karrow -- Chapter 25 Our Shared Forests-Ecuador and Southeast US Migratory Bird Partnership By Anne M. Shenk -- RESPONSIBILITY WITH DECISIONS, POLICYMAKING, AND LEGISLATION -- Chapter 26 Frankenstein, Monsters, and Science Education: The Need for Broad-based Educational Policy By Bradley D. Rowe -- Chapter 27 School Policy in Science Education By George E. DeBoer -- Chapter 28 Some Challenges in Planning Educational Programs for Generation R By J Myron Atkin -- Chapter 29 Re-imaging the Goals of Science Education: What Role Should Assessment Play? By Maria Rivera-Maulucci.
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    ISBN: 9789400770461
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIX, 335 p. 40 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Outstanding Contributions to Logic 1
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Philosophy of mind ; Logic design ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Philosophy of mind ; Logic design ; Segerberg, Krister 1936- ; Logik
    Abstract: This volume describes and analyzes in a systematic way the great contributions of the philosopher Krister Segerberg to the study of real and doxastic actions. Following an introduction which functions as a roadmap to Segerberg's works on actions, the first part of the book covers relations between actions, intentions and routines, dynamic logic as a theory of action, agency, and deontic logics built upon the logics of actions. The second section explores belief revision and update, iterated and irrevocable beliefs change, dynamic doxastic logic and hypertheories. Segerberg has worked for more than thirty years to analyze the intricacies of real and doxastic actions using formal tools - mostly modal (dynamic) logic and its semantics. He has had such a significant impact on modal logic that "It is hard to roam for long in modal logic without finding Krister Segerberg's traces," as Johan van Benthem notes in his chapter of this book
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Robert TrypuzPART I -- 1. "Krister Segerberg’s Philosophy of Action"; Richmond Thomason -- 2. "The concept of a routine in Segerberg’s philosophy of action"; Dag Elgesem -- 3. "On the Reconciliation of Logics of Agency and Logics of Event Types"; Jan Broersen -- 4. "Three traditions in the logic of action: bringing them together"; Andreas Herzig, Tiago de Lima, Emiliano Lorini, and Nicolas Troquard -- 5. "Deontic Logics based on Boolean Algebra"; Pablo Castro and Piotr Kulicki -- 6. "Dynamic Deontic Logic, Segerberg-Style"; John-Jules Meyer -- PART II -- 7. "Contraction, Revision, Expansion - Representing Belief Change Operations"; Sven Ove Hansson -- 8. "Segerberg on the Paradoxes of Introspective Belief Change"; Erik J Olsson and Sebastian Enqvist -- 9. "Equivalent Beliefs in Dynamic Doxastic Logic"; Robert Goldblatt -- 10. "On revocable and irrevocable belief revision"; Hans van Ditmarsch -- 11. "Actions, belief update, and DDL"; Jérôme Lang -- 12. "DDL as an “Internalization” of Dynamic Belief Revision"; Alexandru Baltag, Virginie Fiutek, and Sonja Smets.- 13. "Two logical faces of belief revision"; Johan van Benthem.
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    ISBN: 9789400774889
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 93 p. 13 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Education
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Science Study and teaching ; Educational tests and measurements ; Education ; Education ; Applied linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Science Study and teaching ; Educational tests and measurements ; Syntax ; Theorie ; Systemische Grammatik ; Funktionalismus ; Prüfungsfrage
    Abstract: This book shows how Systemic Functional Linguistics may be used to explore and explain the grammar of scientific examination questions. The author outlines the key elements of this theory and identifies problematical structures that affect the linguistic validity of such education assessment questions. This book also shows how examination questions may provide insight into the relationship between teaching and language in science. Do candidates give an incorrect answer because they do not understand the topic or because they do not understand the language by which the question is framed? This book shows how the analysis of scientific examination questions can answer this question. These chapters show how contemporary linguistics can inform the assessment of science and address topics including: the role of images, lexicography, the morphology of sentences, semantic discontinuity and the active reader. An example question is used throughout the text to illustrate the theories and each chapter has its own useful summary, making it a very readable work
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Systemic Functional Analysis and Science ExaminationsChapter 2 Pictures and Words -- Chapter 3 Sentences -- Chapter 4 Active Readers.
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    ISBN: 9789401786669
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 161 p. 58 illus., 5 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: Read this book if you want to know how to give students the intellectual pleasure of understanding physics. Read it even if you fear that this goal is out of reach - you may be surprised! Laurence Viennot shows ways to deal with the awkward fact that common sense thinking is often not the same as scientific thinking. She exposes frequent and widespread errors and misunderstandings, which provide a real eye-opener for the teacher. More than that, she shows ways to avoid and overcome them. The book argues against over-emphasis on “fun” applications, demonstrating that students also enjoy and value clear thinking. The book has three parts: • Making sense of special scientific ways of reasoning (words, images, functions) • Making connections between very different topics, each illuminating the other • Simplifying, looking for consistency, and avoiding incoherent over-simplification It offers a magnificent supply of insight and ideas, all of which can be put to use no matter what physics programme you teach. The examples provided in this book shed light on the processes of teaching and popularization of physics, from the high school to the early undergraduate level. "I recommend this book to all my colleagues engaged in teaching physics and other scientific disciplines, but also to students, future teachers and all those who take pleasure in understanding" Guy Aubert Emeritus Professor, Université Joseph Fourier, grenoble, France
    Description / Table of Contents: ForewordForeword to the French Edition -- Preface -- Part I Learning to think: words, images and functions -- 1 Essential tools for comprehension -- 2 Some surprising invariances -- 3 Analysis of functional dependence: a powerful tool -- 4 Putting things into practice -- Part II Physics: linking factors -- 5 Links between phenomena in terms of type of functional dependence -- 6 The relationship between different approaches to the same phenomenon -- Part III Simplicity: ruin or triumph of coherence? -- 7 Optimising simple experiments -- 8 Popularising physics: what place for reasoning? -- 9 Conclusion -- Appendix A - What this book owes to physics education research -- Appendix B - The weight of air and molecular impacts: how do they relate? -- Appendix C -Causal  linear reasoning -- Appendix D - When physics should conform to beliefs: pierced bottles -- Appendix E - Reactions of trainee journalists and scientific writers confronted with inconsistency -- Appendix F - “Facilitating elements" of communication: Year 11 students ranking the risks of misunderstanding.
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    ISBN: 9789048139316
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 353 p. 46 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Teaching Science and Investigating Environmental Issues with Geospatial Technology
    Keywords: Geographical information systems ; Science Study and teaching ; Education
    Abstract: This book provides research-grounded and practically-minded insights into teacher professional development in support of integrating GIS and other geospatial technologies into K-12 science teaching. In this volume 50 designers, educators and researchers share their experiences, knowledge, and lessons learned from a wide variety of projects. Readers will find a myriad of ideas and perspectives that they can apply to their own teacher professional development projects, as they work to provide students with engaging opportunities for learning science. Geospatial technologies enable teachers to teach in fundamentally new ways, building student interest and skill through active engagement in critical thinking and project or inquiry-based learning. Students are naturally drawn to looking at landscapes and interpreting features through analysis of both shape and form. Given the chance to manipulate spatial data, students revel in deciphering mysteries, exploring scientific explanations, and linking causes with consequences. The passion and interest demonstrated by students using geospatial tools has motivated an increasing number of K-12 teachers to embrace the use of these technologies for teaching and learning science. Given the nature and complexity of these tools, high quality professional development is essential for providing teachers with the support and guidance they need to use geospatial technologies effectively. This book will be of special interest to scientists, geographers, and science educators who are designing or delivering teacher professional development in support of teaching with technology. The case studies make it possible for readers to identify specific paths forward regarding both research and practice. GIS and other geospatial technologies offer teachers an effective way to engage students in the analysis of authentic data in ways called for by the Next Generation Science Standards and the National Geography Standards. With the improvements in the usability of the tools, the time is right to bring GIS and other geospatial technologies into all K-12 classrooms. The chapters in this book will enable teachers and teacher educators to make that happen. Daniel C. Edelson, Ph.D., Vice President for Education, National Geographic Society While increasing numbers of people use basic geospatial technologies, their power to enliven science has not yet been explored by most educators. This robust and thoughtful compilation focuses on how to supp ...
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    ISBN: 9789400775312
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 176 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 33
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Goeing, Anja-Silvia, 1966 - Summus mathematicus et omnis humanitatis pater
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    Keywords: Humanities ; History ; Regional planning ; Humanities / Arts ; Humanities ; History ; Regional planning ; Hochschulschrift ; Biografie ; Victorinus Feltrensis 1378-1446 ; Victorinus Feltrensis 1378-1446 ; Biografie ; Geschichte 1444 - 1470
    Abstract: This book revises the picture of the teacher and educator of princes, Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c. 1378, Feltre -- 1446, Mantua), taking a completely new approach to show his work and life from the individual perspectives created by his students and contemporaries. From 1423 to 1446, Vittorino da Feltre was in charge of a school in Mantua, where his students included not only the offspring of Italy’s princes, but also the first generation of authors dealing with books in print. Among his students were historians like Bartolomeo Sacchi (named Platina), who wrote an extensive history of the popes, and mathematicians like Jacopo Cassiano (Cremonensis), who translated the work of Archimedes from Greek into Latin. Vittorino is still regarded as the educationalist of Italian Renaissance humanism per sé. This work not only contributes to the study of the history of Italian humanist institutions, it also uses available sources to demonstrate the development of a new attitude to education in Italy
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements1 Introduction -- 2 The Sources on Vittorino da Feltre -- 3 Sassolo da Prato's Correspondence with Leonardo Dati, ca. 1443-1444 -- 4 The Concept of Education in the Second Generation of Vitae and Portraits of Vittorino Da Feltre -- 5 Between History and Praise: Approaches on Understanding Humanist Biographie -- 6 Appendix: The Letter Of Sassolo Da Prato About Vittorino; Translated into English by James Astorga -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9789400743663
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 418 p. 129 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Devetak, Iztok Learning with Understanding in the Chemistry Classroom
    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: This volume offers a critical examination of a variety of conceptual approaches to teaching and learning chemistry in the classroom. Presenting up-to-date research and theory and featuring contributions by respected academics on several continents, it explores ways of making chemical knowledge meaningful and relevant to students as well as strategies for effectively communicating the core concepts essential for developing a robust understanding of the subject. Structured in three sections, the contents deal first with teaching and learning chemistry, discussing general issues and pedagogical strategies using macro, sub-micro and symbolic representations of chemical concepts. Researchers also describe new and productive teaching strategies. The second section examines specific approaches that foster learning with understanding, focusing on techniques such as cooperative learning, laboratory activities, multimedia simulations, and role-playing. The final part of the book details learner-centered active chemistry learning methods, active computer-aided learning, and trainee chemistry teachers` use of student-centered learning during their pre-service education. Comprehensive and highly relevant, this new publication makes a significant contribution to the continuing task of making chemistry classes engaging and effective
    Description / Table of Contents: General Preface; Contents; Contributors; Reviewers; ContentsSection I Teaching and Learning ChemistrySection I Teaching and Learning ChemistrySection I Teaching and Learning ChemistrySection I Teaching and Learning ChemistrySection I Teaching and Learning ChemistrySection I Teaching and Learning ChemistrySection I Teaching and Learning ChemistrySection I Teaching and Learning ChemistrySection I Teaching and Learning ChemistrySection I Teaching and Learning ChemistrySection I Teaching and Learning ChemistrySection I Teaching and Learning Chemis...
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Constructing Active Learning in Chemistry: Concepts, Cognition and ConceptionsActive Learning and Chemistry Education; Constructivist Premises; Three Broad Classes of Learning Outcome; Rote Learning; Concept Learning as Meaningful; When Active Learning Goes Wrong; Learning Impediments; Grounded Learning Impediments; Pedagogic Learning Impediments; The Octet Alternative Conceptual Framework; Chemical Concepts, Chemical Learning and Correcting Conceptions; The Limitations of Models and Metaphors; Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 2 The Development of Theoretical Frameworks for Understanding the Learning of ChemistryIntroduction; Representation Versus Levels of Representation of Matter; Reality Versus Representation; Explanatory Power of Symbolic and Sub-microscopic Levels of Chemical Representation of Matter; Data Source; The Implications of Johnson's Triangle for Teaching; The Expanding Triangle; The Rising Iceberg; Johnstone's Triangle Informing the Chemical Epistemology; Pedagogical Implications; Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 Linking the Macro with the Submicro Levels of Chemistry: Demonstrations and Experiments that can Contribute to Active/Meaningful/Conceptual LearningIntroduction; The Lack of Deep Understanding is a Real Problem of School Chemistry; Teaching for Active Learning and Conceptual Understanding; Ausubel's Theory of Meaningful Learning; Constructivism and Active Learning; Constructivist and Active Approaches to Teaching Particulate Concepts; Introduction of the Concept of the Molecule; Diffusion; Collapsing Balloons; Ever-Moving Particles; Brownian Motion
    Description / Table of Contents: Difference of Properties of a Substance and its MoleculeTemperature; Change of Physical State; The Concept of Energy; Vibrational and Rotational Spectroscopies; The Concept of the Atom; Electrons and Electron Configurations; Chemical Bonding; The Amount of Substance Concept; Quantum Chemical Concepts; Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; References; 4 Challenging Myths About Teaching and Learning Chemistry; Introduction; Specific Myths About Teaching and Learning; How Long Can Students Pay Attention in Lecture?; Is the Use of Clicker Questions More Effective than Frequent Online Quizzes?
    Description / Table of Contents: Can Students Successfully Answer Essay Questions in Chemistry?
    Description / Table of Contents: Section I TEACHING AND LEARNING CHEMISTRYPart I UNDERSTANDING CHEMISTRY CONCEPTS -- Constructing active learning in chemistry: concepts, cognition and conceptions, Keith S. Taber -- The development of theoretical frameworks for understanding the learning of chemistry, Gail Chittleborough -- Linking the Macro with the Submicro Levels of Chemistry: The Role of Active Learning by Means of Demonstrations and Experiments, Georgios Tsaparlis -- Teaching Chemistry Conceptually, Vickie M. Williamson -- Debugging Myths about Teaching and Learning Chemistry, Diane M. Bunce -- Part II STUDENTS' CHARACTERISTICS AND CHEMISTRY LEARNING -- The Role of working memory in making the Learning of Chemistry Accessible and Enjoyable, Norman Reid -- Active Learning Educational Strategies Based on the Differences Between Groups of 16-year-old Students Regarding their Gender and Academic Achievements in Chemistry, Iztok Devetak and Saša A. Glažar -- Section II APPROACHES IN CHEMISTRY TEACHING FOR LEARNING WITH UNDERSTANDING -- Part I COOPERATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNING -- Twenty-five Years of Experience with Cooperative Learning in Chemistry, George M. Bodner and Patricia A. Metz -- Problem Solving through Cooperative Learning in the Chemistry Classroom, Liberato Cardellini -- The learning company approach to promote active learning in secondary chemistry lessons, Torsten Witteck, Katharina Beck, Bettina Most, Stephan Kienast and Ingo Eilks -- Contexts as learning catalysts for students and teachers - approaches and exemplary results from the projects Chemie im Kontext and CHEMOL, Ilka Parchmann, Nina Dunker and Wiebke Endres -- Part II TEACHING STRATEGIES -- Using Worksheets with Different Levels of Guidance to Engage Students in Dynamic Simulations, Sevil Akaygün and Loretta L. Jones -- Evaluation of the Predict-Observe-Explain instructional strategy to enhance students’ understanding of redox reactions, David F Treagust, Zuzi Mthembu and A L Chandrasegaran -- Application of Case Study and Role-playing in Forensic Chemistry Education, Iwona Maciejowska, Renata Wietecha-Posłuszny, Michał Woźniakiewicz and Paweł Kościelniak -- Students' motivation levels for learning chemistry and their success on design and construct activity, Margareta Vrtačnik and Mojca Juriševič -- Section III CURRICULUM REFORM AND TEACHERS -- Fostering Active Chemistry Learning in Thailand: Towards a Learner-Centred Student Experience, Richard K. Coll, Ninna Jasoon, Chanyah Dahsah and Sanoe Charmain -- Active Learning in Computerized Chemical Education Environments, Yehudit Judy Dori and Miriam Barak -- Pre-service Chemistry Teachers` Use of Active Learning During their Practical Pedagogical Training, Vesna Ferk Savec and Katarina S. Wissiak Grm.
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    ISBN: 9789401792400
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 736 p. 1332 illus., 1135 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project 6
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. A corpus of Rembrandt paintings ; 6: Rembrandt's paintings revisited
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    Abstract: A revised survey of Rembrandt’s complete painted oeuvre. The question of which 17th-century paintings in Rembrandt’s style were actually painted by Rembrandt himself had already become an issue during his lifetime. It is an issue that is still hotly disputed among art historians today. The problem arose because Rembrandt had numerous pupils who learned the art of painting by imitating their master or by assisting him with his work as a portrait painter. He also left pieces unfinished, to be completed by others. The question is how to determine which works were from Rembrandt’s own hand. Can we, for example, define the criteria of quality that would allow us to distinguish the master’s work from that of his followers? Do we yet have methods of investigation that would deliver objective evidence of authenticity? To what extent do research techniques used in the physical sciences help? Or are we, after all, still dependent on the subjective, expert eye of the connoisseur? The book provides answers to these questions. Prof. Ernst van de Wetering, the author of our forthcoming book which deals with these questions, has been closely involved in all aspects of this research since 1968, the year the renowned Rembrandt Research Project (RRP) was founded. In particular, he played an important role in developing new criteria for authentication. Van de Wetering was also witness to the way the often overly zealous tendency to doubt the authenticity of Rembrandt’s paintings got out of hand. In this book he re-attributes to the master a substantial number of unjustly rejected Rembrandts. He also was closely involved in the (re)discovery of a considerable number of lost or completely unknown works by Rembrandt. The verdicts of earlier specialists - including the majority of members of the original RRP (up to 1989) - were based on connoisseurship: the self-confidence in one’s ability to recognise a specific artist’s style and ‘hand’. Over the years, Van de Wetering has carried out seminal research into 17th-century studio practice and ideas about art current in Rembrandt’s time. In this book he demonstrates the fallibility of traditional connoisseurship, especially in the case of Rembrandt, who was par excellence a searching artist. The methodological implications of this critical view are discussed in an introductory chapter which relates the history of the developments in this turbulent field of research. Van de Wetering’s account of his own i ...
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 304
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. The history of physics in Cuba
    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; History ; Regional economics ; Spatial economics ; Physics ; Physics ; Science History ; Regional planning ; Regional economics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kuba ; Physik ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This book brings together a broad spectrum of authors, both from inside and from outside Cuba, who describe the development of Cuba's scientific system from the colonial period to the present. It is a unique documentation of the self-organizing power of a local scientific community engaged in scientific research on an international level. The first part includes several contributions that reconstruct the different stages of the history of physics in Cuba, from its beginnings in the late colonial era to the present. The second part comprises testimonies of Cuban physicists, who offer lively insights from the perspective of the actors themselves. The third part presents a series of testimonies by foreign physicists, some of whom were directly involved in developing Cuban physics, in particular in the development of teaching and research activities in the early years of the Escuela de Física. The fourth part of the volume deals with some of the issues surrounding the publishing of scientific research in Cuba. Cuba’s recent history and current situation are very controversial issues. Little is known about the development and status of higher education and scientific research on the island. However, Cuba has one of the highest proportions in the world of people with a university degree or doctorate and is known for its highly developed medical system. This book focuses on a comprehensive overview of the history of the development of one specific scientific discipline: physics in Cuba. It traces the evolution of an advanced research system in a developing country and shows a striking capacity to link the development of modern research with the concrete needs of the country and its population. A little known aspect is the active participation of several “western” physicists and technicians during the 1960s, the role of summer schools, organized by French, Italian, and other western physicists, as well as the active collaboration with European universities
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; References; Contents; About the Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: A Short Introduction to this Volume; Chapter 2: The Cuban "Exception": The Development of an Advanced Scientific System in an Underdeveloped Country; 2.1 Physics in a Difficult Environment; 2.1.1 Cuban Exceptionalism; 2.2 Contradictions and Developments of Cuban Economy, Culture and Science in Late Colonial Times; 2.2.1 Sugar and Tobacco in the Nineteenth Century; 2.2.2 The Role of Sugar in Making Cuba Dependent on the US for Its Modernization
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2.3 Technological Developments During the Nineteenth Century2.2.4 Education and Intellectual Life in Cuba in the Nineteenth Century; 2.2.5 Academy of Science and Medicine; 2.2.6 Liberation Movements; 2.3 Cuba Between Independence, US-Interventions and Dictatorial Regimes in the First Half of the Twentieth Century; 2.3.1 The War of Liberation and Independence and the US Rule; 2.3.2 The Period of Enrique José Varona; 2.3.3 US-Exploitation of Cuban Sciences; 2.3.4 Between Republic, Autocratic Rule and Scientific Advancement; 2.3.5 The Intertwinement of Social, Intellectual and Political Growth
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.6 The Establishment of Batista's Regime and the Consolidation of the Revolutionary Movement2.3.7 Social Conditions, Cultural Ferments and Modernization in Science; 2.4 Revolution, Modernization and Political and Economic Changes Between 1960 and 1990; 2.4.1 A Revolution That Broke All Moulds; 2.4.2 In Search of New Allies; 2.4.3 The Sharp Turn of Cuba's Economy and Politics at the End of the 1960s; 2.4.4 The Crucial Leap in Education and Science; 2.5 Politico-economic Crisis and New Cooperations (1985-1999); 2.5.1 Toward the Breakdown of the USSR
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.5.2 The Deep Troubles of the 'Periodo Especial.' New Cooperations in a Changing World2.5.3 Cultural Vitality, Higher Education and Low-Funded Universities; 2.5.4 The Challenge of the Future in the Context of the World Crisis; References; Chapter 3: Cuba: A Short Critical Bibliographic Guide; Part I: Historical Surveys; Chapter 4: The Teaching of Physics in Cuba from Colonial Times to 1959; 4.1 General Introduction; 4.2 General Survey; 4.3 Experimental Physics vs. Scholasticism; 4.4 The Papel Periódico and the Patriotic Society for Modern Science
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.5 The First Regular Courses in Physics in the Style of Félix Varela (1814-1841) 4.5.1 Félix Varela's Lecciones de Filosofía; 4.5.2 The Backwardness of the University: Arango's Reform Proposal; 4.5.3 Luz y Caballero and the Gabinete de Física del San Carlos; 4.5.4 In Search of Alternatives for the University Crisis; 4.6 The Secularized Colonial University Takes Over (1842-1898); 4.6.1 The 1840s and 1850s: The First Physics Laboratory at the University; 4.6.2 The 1863 Study Plan: The Creation of Secondary Education Institutes and of the Faculty of Sciences
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.6.3 The Academic Restrictions of 1871-1878
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction1 A Short Introduction to this Volume; Angelo Baracca, Jürgen Renn, and Helge Wendt -- 2 The Cuban “Exception”: The Development of an Advanced Scientific System in an Underdeveloped Country; Angelo Baracca -- 3 Cuba: Short Critical Bibliographic Guide; Duccio Basosi -- Part I Historical Surveys -- 4 The Teaching of Physics in Cuba from Colonial Times to 1959; José Altshuler and Angelo Baracca -- 5 Mathematics and Physics in Cuba Before 1959: A Personal Recollection; José Altshuler -- 6 A Comprehensive Study of the Development of Physics in Cuba from 1959; Angelo Baracca, Víctor Luis Fajer Avila, and Carlos Rodríguez Castellanos -- 7 Accomplishments in Cuban Physics (up to 1995); Carlos R. Handy and Carlos Trallero-Giner -- 8 Physics at the University of Oriente; Luis M. Méndez Pérez and Carlos A. Cabal Mirabal -- 9 The Training of Physics Teachers in Cuba: A Historical Approach; Diego de Jesús Alamino Ortega -- 10 Can Universities Develop Advanced Technology and Solve Social Problems?; Isarelis Pérez Ones and Jorge Núñes Jover.-Part II Reflections from the Inside -- 11 The Rise and Development of Physics in Cuba: An Interview with Hugo Pérez Rojas in May 2009; Angelo Baracca -- 12 An Interview with Professor Melquíades de Dios Leyva, December 2008; Olimpia Arias de Fuentes -- 13 Experimental Semiconductor Physics: The Will to Contribute to the Country’s Economic Development; Elena Vigil Santos -- 14 Cuban Techno-physical Experiments in Space; José Altshuler, Ocatvio Calzadilla Amaya, Federico Falcon, Juan E. Fuentes, Jorge Lodos, and Elena Vigil Santos -- 15 Superconductivity in Cuba: Reaching the Frontline; Oscar Arés Muzio and Ernesto Altshuler -- 16 The Physics of Complex Systems in Cuba; Oscar Sotolongo-Costa -- 17 Magnetic Resonance Project 35-26-7: A Cuban Case of Engineering Physics and Biophysics; Carlos A. Cabal Mirabal -- 18 Nanotechnologies in Cuba: Popularization and Training; Carlos Rodríguez Castellanos -- 19 Physics Studies at the University of Havana; Osvaldo de Melo Pereira and María Sánchez Colina -- 20 Physics and Women: A Challenge Being Successfully Met in Cuba; Olimpia Arias de Fuentes -- Part III Reflections from the Outside -- 21 The Beginning of Semiconductor Research in Cuba; Theodore Veltfort -- 22 Andrea Levialdi in Memoriam; Dina Waisman -- 23 The Andrea Levialdi Fellowship; Roberto Fieschi -- 24 A Witness to French-Cuban Cooperation in Physics in the 1970s; Jacqueline Cernogora -- 25 My Collaboration with Cuban Physicists; Fabrizio Leccabue -- 26 Scientific Cooperation Between the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW) and Cuba in the 1960s and 1970s; Helge Wendt -- 27 A Beautiful Story; Federico García-Moliner -- 28 The Current State of Physics in Cuba: A Personal Perspective; Marcelo Alonso -- 29 Engaging Cuban Physicists Through the APS/CPS Partnership; Irving A. Lerch -- 30 A Perspective on Physics in Cuba; Carlos R. Handy -- 31 Cuban/US Research Interactions Since 1995; Maria C. Tamargo -- 32 Viva La Ciencia: Cuba’s Creative Scientists Aim to Make Knowledge Their Country’s Sugar Substitute;  Rosalind Reid and Brian Hayes -- Part IV Scientific Communication and Its Conditions -- 33 Physics in Cuba from the Perspective of Bibliometrics; Werner Marx and Manuel Cardona -- 34 Contemporary Cuban Physics Through Scientific Publications: An Insider’s View; Ernesto Altshuler.
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    ISBN: 9789400766006
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 269 p. 156 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Handbook of Philosophical Logic 17
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Handbook of philosophical logic ; 17
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic
    Abstract: This second edition of the Handbook of Philosophical Logic reflects great changes in the landscape of philosophical logic since the first edition. It gives readers an idea of that landscape and its relation to computer science and formal language and artificial intelligence. It shows how the increased demand for philosophical logic from computer science and artificial intelligence and computational linguistics accelerated the development of the subject directly and indirectly. This development in turn, directly pushed research forward, stimulated by the needs of applications. New logic areas becameestablished and old areas were enriched and expanded. At the same time, it socially provided employment for generations of logicians residing in computer science, linguistics and electrical engineering departments which of course helped keep the logic community to thrive. The many contributors to this Handbook are active in these application areas and are among the most famous leading figures of applied philosophical logic of our times
    Description / Table of Contents: Editorial Preface; Dov M. GabbayHybrid Logic; Torben Braüner -- Nominal Terms and Nominal Logics: From Foundations to Meta-mathematics; Murdoch J. Gabbay -- Introduction to Labelled Deductive Systems; Dov M. Gabbay -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9789400769434
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 340 p. 95 illus., 69 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Innovations in Science Education and Technology 21
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Geoscience Research and Education
    Keywords: Geography ; Science Study and teaching ; Education, Higher ; Education ; Education ; Geography ; Science Study and teaching ; Education, Higher ; Universität ; Geowissenschaften ; Forschung ; Lehre ; Entwicklung ; Methode ; Universität ; Geowissenschaften ; Forschung ; Lehre ; Entwicklung ; Methode
    Abstract: From energy and water resources to natural disasters, and from changing climatic patterns to the evolution of the Earth’s deep interior, geoscience research affects people’s lives in many ways and on many levels. This book offers a stimulating cross-disciplinary perspective on the important relationship between geoscience research and outreach activities for schools and for the general public. The contributors - academics, research scientists, science educators and outreach program educators - describe and evaluate outreach programs from around the world. A section entitled Field-based Approaches includes a chapter describing an initiative to engage Alaskan communities and students in research, and another on problem-based learning in the field setting. The Online Approaches section discusses ways to connect students and scientists using online forums; use of the web and social media, including the United Nations University and its experience with the design of a web magazine featuring geoscience research; and video clips on marine geoscience created by students and scientists. The section on Workshop and Laboratory-based Approaches includes a chapter on teaching geochronology to high school students, and another describing an extracurricular school activity program on meteorology. The Program Design section presents chapters on Integrating Geoscience Research in Primary and Secondary Education, on ways to bridge research with science education at the high school level, and on use of online geoscience data from the Great Lakes. The concluding section, Promoting Research-enhanced Outreach, offers chapters on Geoscience Outreach Education with the local community by a leading research-intensive university, and on the use of research to promote action in Earth science professional development for schoolteachers.Geoscience Research and Outreach: Schools and Public Engagement will benefit geoscience researchers who wish to promote their work beyond academia. It offers guidance to those seeking research funding from agencies, which increasingly request detailed plans for outreach activities in research proposals. Policymakers, educators and scientists working in museums, learned societies and public organizations who wish to widen participation will also find this book useful. Together with the companion volume Geoscience Research and Education: Teaching at Universities, this book showcases the key role that geoscience research plays in a wide spectrum of ...
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Part I: Introduction: The Context; Geoscience and Educational Research in Outreach Activities; Perceptions of Time Matter: The Importance of Geoscience Outreach; Part II: Field-Based Approaches; Engaging Alaska Communities and Students in Cryospheric Research; 1 Introduction; 2 Motivation and Rationale of the Project; 2.1 Scientific Viewpoint; 3 Implementation and Timeline; 3.1 Approach; 3.2 Classroom Activities and Lessons; 3.3 Video as Instruction Activity: TunnelMan Series; 3.3.1 TunnelMan Episode 1: Ice on Permafrost
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3.2 TunnelMan Episode 2: Hop-Pop TunnelMan3.3.3 TunnelMan Episode 3: Active Layer Monitoring; 3.3.4 TunnelMan Episode 4: Geomorphology; 3.3.5 TunnelMan Episode 5: Permafrost and Climate Chronology; 3.4 Manga: TunnelMan Cartoon; 3.5 Active Layer Monitoring; 4 Some Outcomes of This Project; 4.1 Permafrost Failure Impacts Rural Communities; 4.2 Ice Cellar (Sigluaqs); 5 Evaluation; 6 Summary; Overview; Background and Motivation; Innovations and Findings; Implications for Wider Practice; References; The Salish Sea Expedition: Science Outreach from the Gangplank; 1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 2 The Salish Sea Expedition, British Columbia, Canada3 Planning for the Salish Sea Expedition; 4 Salish Sea GeoTour Guidebook and Map; Overview; Status Quo and/or Trends; Challenges to Overcome; Recommendations for Good Practices; References; Problem-Based Learning in the Field Setting; 1 Introduction; 2 Conventional Approaches in Field Instruction; 2.1 Field Setting as an Outdoor Classroom; 2.2 Show-and-Tell Excursion; 2.3 Field Worksheets; 2.4 Guided Field Investigation; 3 PBL in the Field Setting; 3.1 What Is PBL?; 3.2 The QEF Project: PBL in the Field Environment; 4 Method
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.1 Participants4.2 Instructional Design of the Project; 4.2.1 Phase One: Teacher Development Programmes; Instructional Design of the Programmes; The PBL Process; 4.2.2 Phase Two: Student Development Programmes; 4.3 Measures; 5 Impacts of the Project; 5.1 Teachers' Competence in Conducting Field PBL; 5.2 Student Learning; 6 What Makes PBL an Effective Field Instruction?; 6.1 PBL Emphasises Intentional Learning as a Goal of Instruction; 6.2 PBL Situates Learners in Highly Scaffolded Inquiry Learning; 6.3 PBL Takes Cognition, Metacognition, and Epistemic Cognition All into Account
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.4 PBL Emphasises on Students' Autonomy and Self-Directed Learning6.5 PBL Is Highly Structured to Enhance Both Individual and Collective Knowledge; 6.6 PBL Shifts Teachers' Roles as Facilitators and Cognitive and Metacognitive Coaches; 7 Considerations in Adopting PBL in the Field; 7.1 The Essence of Developing Teachers a PBL Frame of Mind; 7.2 Effective Teacher Professional Development as the Key to Successful Field PBL; 7.3 Empowering Students to Share the Facilitator's Role; 7.4 Prior Preparation and Follow-Up Work with the Students; 8 Conclusion; Overview; Background and Motivation
    Description / Table of Contents: Innovations and Findings
    Description / Table of Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION1. The context -- Geoscience and educational research in outreach activities, Vincent C. H. Tong -- Perceptions of time matter: the importance of geoscience outreach, Samuel A. Bowring -- PART II: LINKING GEOSCIENCE RESEARCH AND OUTREACH -- 2. Field-based approaches -- Engaging Alaska Communities and Students in Cryospheric Research, Kenji Yoshikawa and Elena B. Sparrow -- The Salish Sea Expedition: Walking the Gangplank of Science Outreach, K. Westnedge and A. Dallimore -- Problem-based learning in the field setting, Lung Sang Chan and Loretta M. W. Ho -- 3. Online approaches -- From Local to Extreme Environments (FLEXE): Connecting students and scientists in online forums, William S. Carlsen, Liz Goehring and Steven C. Kerlin -- Communicating scientific research through the web and social media: Experience of the United Nations University with the Our World 2.0 web magazine, Brendan F.D. Barrett, Mark Notaras and Carol Smith -- Marine geosciences from a different perspective: "edutainment" video clips by pupils and scientists, J. Dengg, S. Soria-Dengg and S. Tiemann -- Small, subject-oriented educational resource gateways: what are their roles in geoscience education? -- Matteo Cattadori, Cristiana Bianchi, Maddalena Macario and Luca Masiello -- 4. Workshop and laboratory-based approaches, The European experience of educational seismology, A. Zollo, A. Bobbio, J.L. Berenguer, F. Courboulex, P. Denton, G. Festa, A. Sauron, S. Solarino, F. Haslinger and D. Giardini --  EARTHTIME: Teaching geochronology to high school students in the US, Britta Bookhagen, Noah McLean, Robert Buchwaldt, Matthew Rioux, Francis Dudás and Samuel Bowring -- Little meteorological workshop - an extracurricular school activity for pupils, Kornelija Špoler Čanić and Dubravka Rasol -- Grasping deep time with scaled space in personal environs, Bo Holm Jacobsen -- PART III: ENHANCING THE LINK BETWEEN GEOSCIENCE RESEARCH AND OUTREACH -- 5. Programme design --  Integrating Geoscience Research in Primary and Secondary Education, Elena B. Sparrow, Leslie S. Gordon, Martha R. Kopplin, Rebecca Boger, Sheila Yule, Kim Morris, Krisanadej Jaroensutasinee, Mullica Jaroensutasinee and Kenji Yoshikawa -- Bridging scientific research and science education in high schools through authentic and simulated science experiences, Lucette Barber -- Using guided inquiry tools with online geosciences data from the Great Lakes, Sandra Rutherford -- 6. Promoting research-enhanced outreach -- Communicating Climate Science from a Data-Centered Perspective, Matt Rogers -- Geoscience Outreach Education with the Local Community, Jennifer Saltzman -- Using research to promote action in Earth science professional development for teachers, Chris King.                               .
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    ISBN: 9789400770584
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 291 p. 16 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 32
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Friend, Michèle Pluralism in mathematics
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Logic ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Pluralismus ; Mathematik
    Abstract: This book is about philosophy, mathematics and logic, giving a philosophical account of Pluralism which is a family of positions in the philosophy of mathematics. There are four parts to this book, beginning with a look at motivations for Pluralism by way of Realism, Maddy’s Naturalism, Shapiro’s Structuralism and Formalism. In the second part of this book the author covers: the philosophical presentation of Pluralism; using a formal theory of logic metaphorically; rigour and proof for the Pluralist; and mathematical fixtures. In the third part the author goes on to focus on the transcendental presentation of Pluralism, and in part four looks at applications of Pluralism, such as a Pluralist approach to proof in mathematics and how Pluralism works in regard to together-inconsistent philosophies of mathematics. The book finishes with suggestions for further Pluralist enquiry. In this work the author takes a deeply radical approach in developing a new position that will either convert readers, or act as a strong warning to treat the word ‘pluralism’ with care.
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionPart I. Motivating the Pluralist Position from Familiar Positions -- Chapter 1. Introduction. The Journey from Realism to Pluralism -- Chapter 2. Motivating Pluralism. Starting from Maddy’s Naturalism -- Chapter 3. From Structuralism to Pluralism -- Chapter 4. Formalism and Pluralism Co-written with Andrea Pedeferri -- Part II. Initial Presentation of Pluralism.- Chapter 5. Philosophical Presentation of Pluralism -- Chapter 6. Using a Formal Theory of Logic Metaphorically -- Chapter 7. Rigour in Proof Co-written with Andrea Pedeferri -- Chapter 8. Mathematical Fixtures -- Part III. Transcendental Presentation of Pluralism -- Chapter 9. The Paradoxes of Tolerance and the Transcendental Paradoxes -- Chapter 10. Pluralism Towards Pluralism -- Part IV. Putting Pluralism to Work. Applications -- Chapter 11. A Pluralist Approach to Proof in Mathematics -- Chapter 12. Pluralism and Together-Inconsistent Philosophies of Mathematics -- Chapter 13. Suggestions for Further Pluralist Enquiry -- Conclusion.
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    ISBN: 9789400771406
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 283 p. 1 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Studies in German Idealism 15
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Kant on proper science
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy (General) Science ; History ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy ; Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804 ; Naturwissenschaften ; Biologie ; Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804 Opus postumum ; Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804 ; Naturwissenschaften ; Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804 ; Biologie ; Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804 Opus postumum ; Biologie
    Abstract: This book provides a novel treatment of Immanuel Kant’s views on proper natural science and biology. The status of biology in Kant’s system of science is often taken to be problematic. By analyzing Kant’s philosophy of biology in relation to his conception of proper science, the present book determines Kant’s views on the scientific status of biology. Combining a broad ideengeschichtlich approach with a detailed historical reconstruction of philosophical and scientific texts, the book establishes important interconnections between Kant’s philosophy of science, his views on biology, and his reception of late 18th century biological theories. It discusses Kant’s views on science and biology as articulated in his published writings and in the Opus postumum. The book shows that although biology is a non-mathematical science and the relation between biology and other natural sciences is not specified, Kant did allow for the possibility of providing scientific explanations in biology and assigned biology a specific domain of investigation.
    Description / Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsNote on citation and translation -- 1. Introduction: Kant on Science and Biology -- 2. Kant’s Conception of Proper Science -- 3. Mechanical Explanation and Grounding -- 4. Kant on Teleology -- 5. Kant on the Domain and Method of Biology -- 6. Kant on the Systematicity of Physics and the Opus postumum -- 7. Vital Forces and Organisms in the Opus postumum -- 8. Materialism, Hylozoism, and Natural History in the Opus postumum -- 9. Concluding Remarks.
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    ISBN: 9789400769465
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 304 p. 69 illus., 60 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Innovations in Science Education and Technology 20
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Geoscience Research and Education
    Keywords: Geography ; Science Study and teaching ; Education, Higher ; Education ; Education ; Geography ; Science Study and teaching ; Education, Higher ; Universität ; Geowissenschaften ; Forschung ; Lehre ; Entwicklung ; Methode ; Universität ; Geowissenschaften ; Forschung ; Lehre ; Entwicklung ; Methode
    Abstract: Focusing on geoscience, this book applies a uniquely cross-disciplinary perspective to its examination of the relationship between scientific research and teaching at universities. Contributions show how the use of technology and innovative pedagogical design allows students at different stages of their university studies to develop skills and experience in geoscience research. The book offers wide-ranging insight from academics in geoscience, science education and higher education policy and pedagogy, as well as from students and industry experts. The opening section sets the context, with a chapter on teaching and research in the contemporary university by a world-leading academic in higher education, and an essay by the editor on the case of moving from research-implicit to research-enhanced teaching. Part Two addresses the research-teaching nexus in geoscience, offering chapters entitled The Challenge of Combining Research and Teaching: A Young Geoscientist’s Perspective; Teaching on the High Seas: How Field Research Enhances Teaching at All Levels; Curricula and Departmental Strategies to Link Teaching and Geoscience Research; and Geoscience Internships in the Oil and Gas Industry, among others. In Part Three, the use of technology is discussed in chapters such as Using Interactive Virtual Field Guides and Linked Data in Geoscience Teaching and Learning; and Towards Technology- and Research-enhanced Education (TREE): Electronic Feedback as a Teaching Tool in Geoscience. The Program Design section includes chapters on Introducing University Students to Authentic, Hands-on Undergraduate Geoscience Research, and the opportunity to link research and teaching in students’ final projects and more. Geoscience Research and Education: Teaching at Universities is a useful resource for understanding the research-teaching nexus and how it has been implemented in different types of universities and in different countries. Science academics seeking to integrate research into teaching will find the book highly relevant to their work. The emphasis on using technology as a means to link research and teaching will be of great interest and practical benefit to learning technologists, science educators and university policymakers. Together with the companion volume Geoscience Research and Outreach: Schools and Public Engagement, this book showcases the key role that geoscience research plays in a wide spectrum of educational settings
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Part I: Introduction : The Context; From Research-Implicit to Research-Enhanced Teaching: A Geoscience Perspective; Teaching and Research in the Contemporary University; 1 Antecedents; 2 The Global Research University; 3 Teaching and Research in the Era of the GRU; References; Part II: Research -Teaching Nexus in Geoscience: Perspectives; The Challenge of Combining Research and Teaching: A Young Geoscientist's Perspective; 1 Introduction; 2 Teaching as a Young Scientist; 2.1 Incentive to Teach; 2.2 Opportunities; 2.3 Training
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 The Link Between Teaching and Research3.1 Benefits for Students; 3.2 Case Study: A Research-Based Practical for Students; 3.3 Benefits for the Scientist; Overview; Status Quo and/or Trends; Challenges to Overcome; Recommendations for Good Practices; Incorporating Research into Teaching Geosciences: The Masters Student Perspective; 1 Introduction; 2 Experience of Research Articles Incorporated into Learning; 3 Experiences of Field Research Incorporated into Learning; 4 Positive Learning Outcomes of the Course; 4.1 How to Interact with Different Members of a Research Community
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2 How to Organize and Mobilize as a Team to Produce an Experiment4.3 Learning the Steps Involved in Organizing a Research Plan; 4.4 How to Use Field Equipment and Data Correction Software, e.g., Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR), RadExplorer Software, Soil Probes, and Anemometers; 4.5 How to Design and Construct Experiments Based on the Principles of Sand Entrainment and Sand-Transport Velocity Profiles; 4.6 How the Research-Teaching Nexus Can Exist as a Model for Courses I Might Create or Teach; 4.7 How to Construct an Outline for a Research Article
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.8 How to Submit Pieces of Research According to a Deadline Schedule4.9 Building Confidence as a Geoscientist; 5 Experiences of Geosciences Courses with No Research Incorporated; 6 The Research-Teaching Nexus : Challenges; 7 Recommendations for Good Practice; 7.1 Courses That Offer Optional, Incentivized, Research-Focused Fieldwork; 8 Recommendations for Integrating Research Articles into Teaching; 9 Conclusions; Overview; Status Quo and/or Trends; Challenges to Overcome; Recommendations for Good Practices; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Teaching on the High Seas: How Field Research Enhances Teaching at All Levels1 Introduction; 2 Bringing the Ocean to the Classroom; 3 Bringing the Classroom to the Ocean; Overview; Status Quo and/or Trends; Challenges to Overcome; Recommendations for Good Practices; References; Part III: Research -Teaching Nexus in Geoscience: Promoting Research-Enhanced Teaching; Curricula and Departmental Strategies to Link Teaching and Geoscience Research; 1 Introduction; 2 The Research Evidence Summarised; 3 A Framework for Curriculum Design and Teaching and Research Links
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 Curricula Strategies for Effective Teaching- Research Links
    Description / Table of Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION1. The context -- From research-implicit to research-enhanced teaching: A geoscience perspective, Vincent C. H. Tong -- Teaching and research in the contemporary university, Simon Marginson -- PART II: RESEARCH-TEACHING NEXUS IN GEOSCIENCE -- 2. Perspectives -- The challenge of combining research and teaching: A young geoscientist’s perspective, Laura J. Cobden -- Incorporating research into teaching geosciences: the Masters student’s perspective, Barbara McNutt -- Teaching on the High Seas: How Field Research Enhances Teaching at All Levels, Ken C. Macdonald -- 3. Promoting research-enhanced teaching -- Curricula and departmental strategies to link teaching and geoscience research, Alan Jenkins -- The Role of scholarly publication in geocognition and discipline-based geoscience education research, Julie Libarkin -- Geologic Displays as Science and Art, Marjorie A. Chan -- Teaching Geoscience Research to Adult Undergraduates and Distance Learners, Hilary Downes -- Geoscience Internships in the Oil and Gas Industry: A Winning Proposition for both Students and Employers, Rolf V. Ackermann and Lucy MacGregor -- PART III: PEDAGOGICAL EXAMPLES -- 4. Use of technology -- Integration of Enquiry Fossil Research Approaches and Students’ Local Environments within Online Geoscience Classrooms, Renee M. Clary and James H. Wandersee -- Embedding Research Practice Activities into Earth and Planetary Sciences Courses Through the Use of Remotely Operable Analytical Instrumentation, Jeffrey G. Ryan -- Using Interactive Virtual Field Guides and Linked Data in Geoscience Teaching and Learning, Tim Stott, Kate Litherland, Patrick Carmichael and Anne-Marie Nuttall -- GEOverse - An undergraduate research journal:  Research Dissemination within and beyond the Curriculum, Helen Walkington -- Towards technology- and research-enhanced education (TREE): Electronic feedback as a teaching tool in geoscience, Vincent C. H. Tong -- 5. Programme design -- Introducing university students to authentic, hands-on undergraduate geoscience research in entry-level coursework, Laura Guertin -- Engaging first-year students in team-oriented research: The Terrascope learning community, S. A. Bowring, A. W. Epstein and C. F. Harvey -- Students’ final projects: an opportunity to link research and teaching, Dolores Pereira and Luis Neves -- Teaching Environmental Sciences in an International and Interdisciplinary Framework: from Arid to Alpine Ecosystems in NE Spain, D. Badía, N. Bayfield, A. Cernusca, F. Fillat and D. Gómez -- The Role of concept inventories in course assessment, Julie Libarkin, Sarah E. Jardeleza and Teresa L. McElhinny.
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    ISBN: 9789400776517
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 295 p. 2 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Series Statement: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Educational tests and measurements ; Education
    Abstract: This book offers valuable guidance for science teacher educators looking for ways to facilitate preservice and inservice teachers’ pedagogy relative to teaching students from underrepresented and underserved populations in the science classroom. It also provides solutions that will better equip science teachers of underrepresented student populations with effective strategies that challenge the status quo, and foster classrooms environment that promotes equity and social justice for all of their science students. Multicultural Science Education illuminates historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in science teacher education from the perspectives of a remarkable group of science teacher educators and presents research that has been done to address these issues. It centers on research findings on underserved and underrepresented groups of students and presents frameworks, perspectives, and paradigms that have implications for transforming science teacher education. In addition, the chapters provide an analysis of the socio-cultural-political consequences in the ways in which science teacher education is theoretically conceptualized and operationalized in the United States. The book provides teacher educators with a framework for teaching through a lens of equity and social justice, one that may very well help teachers enhance the participation of students from traditionally underrepresented and underserved groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) areas and help them realize their full potential in science. Moreover, science educators will find this book useful for professional development workshops and seminars for both novice and veteran science teachers.
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    ISBN: 9789400767638
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 322 p. 63 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: ASTE Series in Science Education 1
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Science teacher educators as K-12 teachers
    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: Science teacher educators prepare and provide professional development for teachers at all grade levels. They seek to improve conditions in classroom teaching and learning, professional development, and teacher recruitment and retention. Science Teacher Educators as K-12 Teachers: Practicing What We Teach tells the story of sixteen teacher educators who stepped away from their traditional role and entered the classroom to teach children and adolescents in public schools and informal settings. It details the practical and theoretical insights that these members of the Association of Science Teacher Educators (ASTE) earned from experiences ranging from periodic guest teaching to full-time engagement in the teaching role. Science Teacher Educators as K-12 Teachers shows science teacher educators as professionals engaged in reflective analysis of their beliefs about and experiences with teaching children or adolescents science. With their ideas about instruction and learning challenged, these educators became more aware of the circumstances today's teachers face. Their honest accounts reveal that through teaching children and adolescents, teacher educators can also renew themselves and expand their identities as well as their understanding of themselves in the profession and in relation to others. Science Teacher Educators as K-12 Teachers will appeal to all those with an interest in science education, from teacher educators to science teachers, as well as teacher educators in other disciplines. Its narratives and insights may even inspire more teacher educators to envision new opportunities to serve teachers, K-12 learners and the local community through a variety of teaching arrangements in public schools and informal education settings
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction, Kathy Cabe TrundlePracticing What We Teach, Michael Dias -- K-12 Teaching with no Ties to University -- Policy and the Planned Curriculum: Teaching High School Biology Every Day, Carolyn S. Wallace -- Get Real! Walking the Walk to Inform Talking the Talk: Full-time Teaching in an Urban High School, Paul Jablon -- The Nail in the Coffin: How Returning to the Classroom Killed My Belief in Schooling (But Not in Public Education), Don Duggan-Haas -- K-12 Teaching During University Sabbatical -- Becoming an Elementary Teacher of Nature of Science: Lessons Learned for Teaching Elementary Science, Valarie L. Akerson, Ingrid S. Weiland, Vanashri Nargund-Joshi, Khemmawadee Pongsanon -- A Sabbatical as a Middle Grades Science Teacher: Building New Practical Knowledge for Practice, Charles J. Eick -- Ten Years Out: The Long-Term Benefits of a Year Working as a Physical Science Teacher, Lee Meadows -- Elementary Science Teaching, Then and Now, Edward L. Shaw, Jr -- Being Ready to Learn: My Experience Differentiating Science with Third Graders, Mark Guy -- K-12 Teaching in a Summer Program -- Science Teacher Educator’s Partnership Experiences Teaching Urban Middle School Students in Multiple Informal Settings, Sherri L. Brown -- Differentiating through Problem-Based Learning: Learning to ExploreMore! with Gifted Students, Neporcha Cone, Bongani Bantwini, Ethel King-McKenzie, Barry Bogan -- Learning from Fourth and Fifth Graders in a Summer School for English Language Learners, Molly H. Weinburgh, Cecilia Silva, Kathy Smith -- K-12 Teaching While University Professor -- Teaching High School Chemistry as a University Science Educator: One Small Investment with a Significant Return, MaryKay Orgill, Patricia M. Friedrichsen -- Improving Theories and Practices Through Collaborative Self-studies of Urban Science Teaching and Learning, Kenneth Tobin -- K-12 Teaching as Professor in Coteaching Role -- Gaining a New Perspective: Co-Teaching with Elementary Pre-Service Teachers,  Leslie U. Bradbury -- Reestablishing the Role of the University Professor in the Laboratory School: Re-tooling in An Elementary Classroom, Kimberly Lott -- Improving Science Teacher Education Practice: Influence from Professional Development School Involvement, G. Nathan Carnes -- Final Thoughts -- Teaching Youth Again: Reflecting on Renewal, Charles J. Eick, Laurie Brantley-Dias, Michael Dias -- Closing, Jack Hassard.
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    ISBN: 9789400743571
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 324 p. 49 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Closing the achievement gap from an international perspective
    Keywords: Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: In a changing world that demands new skills, a vital concern of public education is the gap in academic performance between low- and high-achieving students. There is no excuse for the achievement gaps that persist among poor and minority students in schools today. All students can succeed at high levels, regardless of race, ethnicity and economic background. Several countries have successfully confronted inequities in achievement, demonstrating that any school can close achievement gaps regardless of the community they serve, and that all students can achieve at high levels when they are provided with the right opportunities. This book is about understanding what factors selected countries have applied to promote progress and what factors contribute to progress in the closing of achievement gaps. It is about creating opportunities for all students. Closing the Achievement Gap from an International Perspective: Transforming STEM for Effective Education is written in response to rising concern for the improvement of quality education - especially in mathematics and science - provided to all students. The contributors take a systematic view of the subject, beginning with a cross-national analysis of teacher qualifications and the achievement gap that spans 50 countries. The content of the book is organized in sections describing education around the globe: North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Individual chapters offer close-up analysis of efforts to close achievement gaps in the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, England, Turkey, China, South Africa and Australia among many others. The contributors provide information on the achievement gap in mathematics and science, review current research, and present strategies for fostering improvement and raising performance with a focus on school-related variables that adversely affect educational outcomes among poor and minority students. The authors of the various chapters looked at how students’ data correlated with classroom practices, teacher instruction and academic programming, as part of their efforts to measure student growth. Qualitative and quantitative data are provided to provide evidence not only of the problem, but also for the solution. The book concludes with a chapter on promoting equality and equity to shrink the achievement gap worldwide
    Description / Table of Contents: PREFACE, Edmund W. GordonIntroduction, Julia V. Clark -- Closing the Achievement Gap: A Systemic View, Linda Darling Hammond -- Teacher Qualification and Achievement Gap: A Cross-National Analysis of 50 Countries, Motoko Akiba and Guodong Lang -- SECTION TWO: NORTH AMERICA -- Addressing the Achievement Gap in the United States, Julia V. Clark -- Closing the Science, Mathematics, and Reading Gaps from a Canadian Perspective, Larry D.Yore, Leslee Francis Pelton, Brian W. Neill, Tim W. Pelton, John Anderson, and Todd M. Milford -- Achievement Gap in Mexico-Present Situation and Outlook, Armando Sanchez Martinez -- SECTION THREE: SOUTH AMERICA -- Racial Achievement Gaps in Another America: Discussing Schooling, Outcomes and Affirmative Action in Brazil, Marcos A. Rangel and Ricardo A. Madeiria -- SECTION IV:  EUROPE -- Narrowing the Achievement Gap:  Policy and Practice in England 1997-2010 -- Geoff Whitty and Jake Anders -- The Achievement Gap in Science and Mathematics: A Turkish Perspective, Mustafa Sami Topcu -- SECTION FIVE: ASIA -- Achievement Gap in China, Gaoming Zhang and Yong Zhao -- Employing a Socio-historical Perspective for Understanding the Impact of Ideology and Policy in Educational Achievement in the Republic of Korea, Sonya N. Martin, Seung-Urn Choe, Chan-Jong Kim, Youngsun Kwak -- Closing the Achievement Gap in Singapore, Jason TAN -- SECTION SIX: AFRICA -- Equity Deferred: South African Schooling Two Decades into Democracy, Nick Taylor and Johan Muller -- SECTION SEVEN: AUSTRALIA -- Securing STEM Pathways for Australian high school students from lower SES localities, Debra Panizzon -- The Road to Excellence: Promoting Equality and Equity to Close the Achievement Gap Worldwide, Julia V. Clark.
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    ISBN: 9789400772816
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 601 p. 102 illus., 57 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Contributions from Science Education Research 1
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Topics and trends in current science education
    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: This book features 35 of the best papers from the 9th European Science Education Research Association Conference, ESERA 2011, held in Lyon, France, September 5th-9th 2011. The ESERA international conference featured some 1,200 participants from Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe as well as North and South America offering insight into the field at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. This book presents studies that represent the current orientations of research in science education and includes studies in different educational traditions from around the world. It is organized into six parts around the three poles of science education (content, students, teachers) and their interrelations: after a general presentation of the volume (first part), the second part concerns SSI (Socio- Scientific Issues) dealing with new types of content, the third the teachers, the fourth the students, the fifth the relationships between teaching and learning, and the sixth the teaching resources and the curricula
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; Contents; Part I: Overview of the Book; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1 Socio-scientific Issues (SSIs) and the Nature of Science (NOS); 2 Teachers' Practices and Teachers' Professional Development; 3 The Students: Multiple Perspectives; 4 Relationship Between Teaching and Learning; 5 Part VI Teaching Resources, Curriculum; Part II: Socio-scientific Issues; Chapter 2: The Need for a Public Understanding of Sciences; References; Chapter 3: Questions Socialement Vives and Socio-­scientific Issues: New Trends of Research to Meet the Training Needs of Postmodern Society; 1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 2 Socially Acute Questions and Socio-scientific Issues2.1 Definition of Socially Acute Questions; 2.2 The Underpinning Links of Socially Acute Questions; 2.3 The Socio-epistemological Approach; 2.4 The Psychosocial Approach; 3 Curriculum Orientations: To 'Cool Down' or to 'Heat Up' the Questions; 3.1 Diversity of Educational Stakes and Pedagogies; 3.2 Epistemological Stances; 3.3 Didactic Strategies; 4 Challenges for Future Post-normal Education; References; Chapter 4: Teachers' Beliefs, Classroom Practices and Professional Development Towards Socio-­scientific Issues; 1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 2 Rationale: Teachers' Commitments to SSI Activities3 Methodology; 3.1 Documenting Teachers' Contribution to a Citizenship Education and SSI Classroom Discussions and Activism; 3.2 An Action-Research Project Based on IBST as the Way and as the Goal to Deal with the Complexity of SSIs; 4 Results; 4.1 Teachers' Contribution to Citizenship Education; 4.2 Factors Influencing Implementation of Classroom Discussions About SSIs; 4.3 Complex Student Teachers' Research and Activism Choices; 4.4 Several Types of IBST and Possibilities for SSI Teaching
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.5 Inquiry-Based Teaching to Handle Complex Environmental Issues4.5.1 The First Cycle; 4.5.2 The Second Cycle; 5 Conclusions and Implications; References; Chapter 5: Which Perspectives Are Referred in Students' Arguments About a Socio-scientific Issue? The Case of Bears' Reintroduction in the Pyrenees; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Background and Rationale; 1.1.1 Socio-scientific Issues (SSI) in Science Education; 1.1.2 Making Decisions on an SSI; 1.2 Objective of the Research; 2 Methodology; 2.1 Data Collection; 2.1.1 Research Population; 2.1.2 SSI Classroom Activity Design
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1.3 The SSI Classroom Activity Designed2.2 Data Analysis; 3 Results and Discussion; 4 Conclusions and Implications; References; Chapter 6: Learning About the Role and Function of Science in Public Debate as an Essential Component of Scientific Literacy; 1 Introduction; 2 Suitable Topics for Learning About Science-Based Communications in Societal Debate; 3 Understanding the Individual's Use of Scientific Information in Societal Debates; 4 Modeling the Society's Use of Scientific Information in Societal Debates
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Pedagogies to Learn About Individual's and Society's Handling of Scientific Information
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Overview of the bookOverview of the book,    Catherine Bruguière, Andrée Tiberghien, Pierre Clément -- Part 2: Socio-Scientific Issues -- The Need for a Public Understanding of Sciences, Isabelle Stengers -- Questions Socialement Vives and Socio-Scientific Issues: New Trends of Research to Meet the Training Needs of Post-Modern Society, Laurence Simonneaux -- Teachers’ Beliefs, Classroom Practices and Professional Development towards Socio-Scientific Issues, Virginie Albe, Catherine Barrué, Larry Bencze, Anne Kristine Byhring, Lyn Carter, Marcus Grace, Erik Knain, Dankert Kolstø, Pedro Reis and Erin Sperling -- Which perspectives are referred in students’ arguments about a Socio-scientific Issue? The case of Bears’ reintroduction in the Pyrenees, Ana Mª Domènech and Conxita Márquez -- Learning about the role and function of science in public debate as an essential component of scientific literacy, Ingo Eilks, Jan A. Nielsen, Avi Hofstein -- Exploring Secondary Students’ Arguments in the Context of Socio-scientific Issues, Dr. Fatih Çağlayan Mercan, Dr. Buket Yakmacı-Güzel, and Dr. Füsun Akarsu -- Teachers’ Beliefs on Science-Technology-Society (STS) and Nature of Science (NOS): Strengths, Weaknesses, and Teaching Practice, Ángel Vázquez-Alonso; María-Antonia Manassero-Mas; Antonio García-Carmona and Antoni Bennàssar-Roig -- Part 3: Teachers’ Practices and Teachers Professional Development -- Professional Learning of Science Teachers, Jan H. Van Driel --  Nanoeducation: Zooming into Teacher Professional Development Programs in Nanoscience and Technology, Ron Blonder, Ilka Parchmann, Sevil Akaygun, and Virginie Albe -- Education for Sustainable Development: An International Survey on Teachers’ Conceptions, Pierre Clément and Silvia Caravita -- Learning to Teach Science as Inquiry: Developing an Evidence-based Framework for Effective Teacher Professional Development, Barbara A. Crawford, Daniel K. Capps, Jan van Driel, Norman Lederman, Judith Lederman, Julie Luft, Sissy Wong, Aik Ling Tan , Shirley Lim, John Loughran, Kathy Smith -- Weaving Relationships in a Teaching Sequence Using ICT: A Case Study in Optics at Lower Secondary School, Suzane El Hage, Christian Buty -- Inquiry based mathematics and science education across Europe: A synopsis of various approaches and their potentials, Katrin Engeln, Silke Mikelskis-Seifert, Manfred Euler -- Measuring Chemistry Teachers’ Content Knowledge - Is it correlated to Pedagogical Content Knowledge? Oliver Tepner and Sabrina Dollny -- PART 4: The students - Multiple Perspectives -- Boys in Physics Lessons: Focus on Masculinity in an Analysis of Learning Opportunities, Josimeire M. Julio, Arnaldo M. Vaz -- Which Effective Competencies Do Students Use in PISA Assessment of Scientific Literacy? Florence Le Hebel, Pascale Montpied, Andrée Tiberghien -- Development of Understanding in Chemistry, Hannah Sevian, Vicente Talanquer, Astrid M. W. Bulte, Angelica Stacy, Jennifer Claesgens -- Learning Affordances: Understanding Visitors’ Learning in Science Museum Environment, Hyeonjeong Shin, Eun Ji Park, Chan-Jong Kim -- Modelling and Assessing Experimental Competencies in Physics, Heike Theyßen, Horst Schecker, Christoph Gut, Martin Hopf, Jochen Kuhn, Peter Labudde, Andreas Müller, Nico Schreiber, Patrik Vogt -- Understanding Students’ Conceptions of Electromagnetic Induction: A Semiotic Analysis, Jennifer Yeo -- Part 5 Relationships between Teaching and Learning -- Analysing Classroom Activities: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations, Gregory J. Kelly -- The Impact of a Context-led Curriculum on Different Students’ Experiences of School Science, Indira Banner & Jim Ryder -- Students’ Experienced Coherence between Chemistry and Biology in Context-Based Secondary Science Education, Hilde J. Boer, Gjalt T. Prins, Martin J. Goedhart and Kerst Th. Boersma -- The Relationship between Teaching and Learning of Chemical Bonding and Structures, Ray Lee, Maurice M. W. Cheng -- Blending Physical and Virtual Manipulatives in Physics Laboratory Experimentation, Georgios Olympiou & Zacharias C. Zacharia -- Becoming a Health Promoting School: Effects of a three year intervention on school development and pupils, Steffen Schaal -- Disagreement in ‘Ordinary’ Teaching Interactions: A Study of Argumentation in a Science Classroom, Ana Paula Souto-Silva, Danusa Munford -- Analysis of Teaching and Learning Practices in Physics and Chemistry Education: Theoretical and Methodological Issues, Patrice Venturini, Andrée Tiberghien, Claudia von Aufschnaiter, Gregory Kelly, Eduardo Mortimer -- Part 6 Teaching Resources, Curriculum -- Designing a Learning Progression for Teaching and Learning about Matter in Early School Years, Andrés Acher & María Arcà --  ‘Realistic-Fiction Storybooks’ as a Resource for Problematic Questioning of Living Being with Pupils in Primary School, Catherine Bruguière and Eric Triquet -- Nature of Science as Portrayed in the Physics Official Curricula and Textbooks in Hong Kong and on the Mainland of the People’s Republic of China, Ka Lok Cheng and Siu Ling Wong -- On the transfer of teaching-learning materials from one educational setting to another, R. Pintó, M. Hernández, C. P. Constantinou -- CoReflect - Web-based Inquiry Learning Environments on Socio-Scientific issues, Andreas Redfors, Lena Hansson, Eleni A. Kyza, Iolie Nicolaidou, Itay Asher, Iris Tabak, Nicos Papadouris and Christakis Avraam -- Adapting web-based inquiry learning environments from one country to another: The CoReflect experience, Eleni A. Kyza, Christothea Herodotou, Iolie Nicolaidou, Andreas Redfors and Lena Hansson, Sascha Schanze, Ulf Saballus, Nicos Papadouris4, Georgia Michael.
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    ISBN: 9789400768574
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 482 p. 189 illus., 24 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Boone, William J. Rasch analysis in the human sciences
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    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Educational tests and measurements ; Educational psychology ; Statistics ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Educational tests and measurements ; Educational psychology ; Statistics ; Education ; Educational psychology ; Educational tests and measurements ; Science Study and teaching ; Statistics
    Abstract: Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences helps individuals, both students and teachers, master the key concepts and resources needed to use Rasch techniques for analyzing data from assessments to measure variables such as abilities, attitudes, and personality traits. Upon completion of the text, readers will be able to confidently evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing instrumentation, compute linear person measures and item measures, interpret Wright Maps, utilize Rasch software, and understand what it means to measure in the Human Sciences. Each of the 24 chapters presents a key concept using a mix of theory and application of user-friendly Rasch software. Chapters also include a beginning and ending dialogue between two typical researchers learning Rasch, formative assessment check points, sample data fi les, an extensive set of application activities with answers, a one paragraph sample research article text integrating the chapter topic, quick-tips, and suggested readings. Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences will be an essential resource for anyone wishing to begin or expand their learning of Rasch measurement techniques, be it in the Health Sciences, Market Research, Education, or Cognitive Sciences. “Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences represents a much needed, practical, and approachable guide to the use of Rasch methods and models within the field of education in general and in STEM fields most particularly. With a future ever more guided by data-driven decision-making, it is essential that our educators become more familiar with fundamental measurement concepts. Dr. Boone’s new text provides readers with a powerful set of new skills, set within an accessible, easy to read framework.” Gregory Ethan Stone, Professor of Educational Foundations and Leadership, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA “Bill Boone’s book leads educators as well as doctoral students to using Rasch as a model for measurement and profound interpretation of data and provides a profound and understandable introduction into a difficult topic.” Hans E. Fischer, Professor of Physics Education, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany “This book will be invaluable to those in the social sciences who want to improve the quality of our science through improved measurement.” Cynthia W. Kelly, Professor of Nursing, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
    Description / Table of Contents: What is Rasch Measurement & How Can Rasch Measurement Help Me?Rating Scale Surveys, A Rasch Rating Scale Analysis (Step I)-Reading Data and Running an Analysis -- Understanding Person Measures -- Item Measures -- Wright Maps - First Steps -- Wright Maps - Second Steps Fit -- How Well Does That Rating Scale Work? How Do You Know, Too? -- Person Reliability, Item Reliability and More -- What is an Ogive? How do I Use It? -- Some Wright Map Nuance, How To Set the Probability of Success at 65% (or whichever percentage you wish to choose) -- Differential Item Functioning -- Linking Surveys and Tests -- Setting Pass/Fail Points and Competency Levels -- Expressing Competency Levels -- Quality of Measurement and Sample Size -- Missing Data:  What should I do? -- Combining Scales -- Multifaceted Rasch Measurement -- The Rasch Model and Item Response Theory Models:  Identical, Similar, or Unique? -- What Tables to Use? -- Key Resources for Continued Expansion of Your Understanding of Rasch Measurement -- Where Have We Been & What’s Next?.
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789400777590
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 433 p. 16 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Outstanding Contributions to Logic 3
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. David Makinson on classical methods for non-classical problems
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Computer science ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Computer science ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
    Abstract: The volume analyses and develops David Makinson’s efforts to make classical logic useful outside its most obvious application areas. The book contains chapters that analyse, appraise, or reshape Makinson’s work and chapters that develop themes emerging from his contributions. These are grouped into major areas to which Makinsons has made highly influential contributions and the volume in its entirety is divided into four sections, each devoted to a particular area of logic: belief change, uncertain reasoning, normative systems, and the resources of classical logic. Among the contributions included in the volume, one chapter focuses on the “inferential preferential method”, i.e. the combined use of classical logic and mechanisms of preference and choice and provides examples from Makinson’s work in non-monotonic and defeasible reasoning and belief revision. One chapter offers a short autobiography by Makinson which details his discovery of modern logic, his travels across continents and reveals his intellectual encounters and inspirations. The chapter also contains an unsually explicit statement on his views on the (limited but important) role of logic in philosophy
    Description / Table of Contents: PrefaceContributors -- Introductory -- Chapter 1. Sven Ove Hansson: Preview -- Chapter 2. Sven Ove Hansson and Peter Gärdenfors: David Makinson and the extension of classical logic -- Chapter 3. David Makinson: A tale of five cities -- I. Logic of Belief Change -- Chapter 4. Hans Rott and Sven Ove Hansson: Safe contraction revisited -- Chapter 5. Pavlos Peppas: A panorama of iterated revision -- Chapter 6. Wolfgang Spohn: AGM, ranking theory and the many ways to cope with examples -- Chapter 7. Edwin Mares: Liars, lotteries and prefaces: two paraconsistent theories of belief revision -- Chapter 8. Rohit Parikh: Epistemic reasoning in life and literature -- II. Uncertain Reasoning -- Chapter 9. James Hawthorne: New Horn rules for probabilistic consequence: Is O+ enough? -- Chapter 10. Karl Schlechta: Non-monotonic logic: preferential vs. algebraic semantics -- Chapter 11. Hykel Hosni: Towards a Bayesian theory of second-order uncertainty: lessons from non-standard logics -- III. Normative Systems -- Chapter 12. Audun Stolpe: Abstract interfaces of input/output logic -- Chapter 13. Xavier Parent, Dov Gabbay and Leendert van der Torre: Intuitionistic basis for input/output logic -- Chapter 14. Jörg Hansen: Reasoning about permission and obligation -- Chapter 15. John Horty: Norm change in the common law -- IV. Classical Resources -- Chapter 16. David Makinson: Intelim rules for classical connectives -- Chapter 17. David Makinson: Relevance logic as a conservative extension of classical logic -- V. Responses -- Chapter 18. David Makinson: Reflections on contributions -- Bibliographical -- David Makinson’s publications -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9789048192465
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 330 p. 29 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education 42
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Conceptual profiles: a theory of teaching and learning scientific concepts /Eduardo F. Mortimer; Charbel N. El-Hani Eds.
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    Abstract: The language of science has many words and phrases whose meaning either changes in differing contexts or alters to reflect developments in a given discipline. This book presents the authors’ theories on using ‘conceptual profiles’ to make the teaching of context-dependent meanings more effective. Developed over two decades, their theory begins with a recognition of the coexistence in the students’ discourse of those alternative meanings, even in the case of scientific concepts such as molecule, where the dissonance between the classical and modern views of the same phenomenon is an accepted norm. What began as an alternative model of conceptual change has evolved to incorporate a sociocultural approach, by drawing on ideas such as situated cognition and Vygotsky’s influential concept of culturally located learning. Also informed by pragmatist philosophy, the approach has grown into a well-rounded theory of teaching and learning scientific concepts. The authors have taken the opportunity in this book to develop their ideas further, anticipate and respond to criticisms-that of relativism, for example-and explain how their theory can be applied to analyze the teaching of core concepts in science such as heat and temperature, life and biological adaptation. They also report on the implementation of a research program that correlates the responsiveness of their methodology to all the main developments in the field of science education. This additional material will inform academic discussion, review, and further enhancement of their theory and research model
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTIONSECTION 1 The conceptual profile: theoretical, epistemological and methodological bases of a research program -- CHAPTER 1 Conceptual Profiles: Theoretical-Methodological Bases of a Research Program -- CHAPTER 2 The Epistemological Grounds of the Conceptual Profile Theory -- CHAPTER 3 Methodological grounds of the conceptual profile research program -- SECTION 2 Empirical studies for building and using conceptual profile models for chemical, physical and biological onto concepts -- CHAPTER 4 Contributions of the sociocultural domain to define a conceptual profile for molecule and molecular structure -- CHAPTER 5 Building a Profile for the Biological Concept of Life -- CHAPTER 6 Investigating the Evolution of Conceptual Profiles of Life amongst University Students of Biology and Pharmacy: The Use Statistical Tools to Analyze the Answers of Questionnaires -- CHAPTER 7 Conceptual profile of adaptation: a tool to investigate evolution learning in biology classrooms -- CHAPTER 8 A conceptual profile of entropy and spontaneity: characterizing modes of thinking and ways of speaking in the classroom -- CHAPTER 9 The Implications of Conceptual Profile in the Teaching of Science: an example from a teaching sequence in thermal physics -- SECTION 3 Recent developments in the research program -- CHAPTER 10 Conceptual Profile as a Model of a Complex World -- CHAPTER 11 Building a profile model for the concept of Death.
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    ISBN: 9789401787277
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 276 p. 49 illus., 8 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: MARE Publication Series 12
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: History ; Wildlife ; Fish ; Environmental management ; Marine sciences ; Freshwater ; Environment ; Environmental sciences ; Wildlife management ; Environmental management ; Marine Sciences ; History
    Abstract: The waters of the Indo-Pacific were at the centre of the global expansion of marine capture fisheries in the twentieth century, yet surprisingly little has been written about this subject from a historical perspective. This book, the first major study of the history of fishing in Asia and Oceania, presents the case-studies completed through the History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) initiative. It examines the marine environmental history and historical marine ecology of the Indo-Pacific during a period that witnessed the dramatic escalation of industrial fishing in these seas.
    Abstract: The waters of the Indo-Pacific were at the centre of the global expansion of marine capture fisheries in the twentieth century, yet surprisingly little has been written about this subject from a historical perspective. This book, the first major study of the history of fishing in Asia and Oceania, presents the case-studies completed through the History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) initiative. It examines the marine environmental history and historical marine ecology of the Indo-Pacific during a period that witnessed the dramatic escalation of industrial fishing in these seas
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: Historical Perspectives of Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific2. Unsettled Seas: Towards a History of Marine Animal Populations in the Central Indo-Pacific -- 3. Changing practice in the Madras marine fisheries: legacies of the Fish Curing Yards -- 4. History of shark fishing in Indonesia -- 5. A history of whaling in the Philippines: A glimpse of the past and current distribution of whales -- 6. Brackish water shrimp farming and the growth of aquatic monocultures in coastal Bangladesh -- 7. Evolution and development of the Taiwanese offshore tuna fishery -- 8. History of industrial tuna fishing in the Pacific Islands -- 9. Southern Bluefin Tuna: a contested history -- 10. The NSW steam trawl fishery on the south-east continental shelf of Australia, 1915-1961 -- 11.Exploiting Green and Hawksbill Turtles in Western Australia: the Commercial Marine Turtle Fishery -- 12. Shifting baselines or shifting currents: an environmental history of fish and fishing in the south-west capes region of Western Australia -- 13. Shark Bay snapper: science, policy, and the decline and recovery of a marine recreational fishery -- 14. Conclusion: Learning from Asian and Indo-Pacific Fisheries History.
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9783319065267
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 338 p. 65 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Models and Modeling in Science Education 8
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Science teachers' use of visual representations
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    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hochschule ; Lehre ; Visualisierung
    Abstract: This book examines the diverse use of visual representations by teachers in the science classroom. It contains unique pedagogies related to the use of visualization, presents original curriculum materials as well as explores future possibilities. The book begins by looking at the significance of visual representations in the teaching of science. It then goes on to detail two recent innovations in the field: simulations and slowmation, a process of explicit visualization. It also evaluates the way teachers have used different diagrams to illustrate concepts in biology and chemistry. Next, the book explores the use of visual representations in culturally diverse classrooms, including the implication of culture for teachers’ use of representations, the crucial importance of language in the design and use of visualizations, and visualizations in popular books about chemistry. It also shows the place of visualizations in the growing use of informal, self-directed science education. Overall, the book concludes that if the potential of visualizations in science education is to be realized in the future, the subject must be included in both pre-service and in-service teacher education. It explores ways to develop science teachers’ representational competence and details the impact that this will have on their teaching. The worldwide trend towards providing science education for all, coupled with the increased availability of color printing, access to personal computers and projection facilities, has lead to a more extensive and diverse use of visual representations in the classroom. This book offers unique insights into the relationship between visual representations and science education, making it an ideal resource for educators as well as researchers in science education, visualization and pedagogy
    Description / Table of Contents: Section A: Research into teaching with visual representationsIntroduction -- Chapter 1 : The significance of visual representations in the teaching of science, B. Eilam, J.K. Gilbert -- Chapter 2 : Teaching and researching visual representations: Shared vision or divided world? S. Ainsworth & L. Newton -- Section B: Teachers’ selections, constructions and use of visual representations -- Introduction -- Chapter 3 : Representing visually: What teachers know and what they prefer, B. Eilam, Y. Poyas, R. Hasimshoni -- Chapter 4 : Slowmation: A process of explicit visualisation, J. Loughran -- Chapter 5 : Secondary biology teachers’ use of different types of diagrams for different purposes, Y. Liu, M. Won, D.F. Treagust -- Chapter 6 : Teaching stoichiometry with particulate diagrams - linking macro phenomena and chemical equations, M.W. Cheng, J.K. Gilbert -- Section C: Teachers’ use of visual representations in culturally-diverse classrooms -- Introduction -- Chapter 7 : Thoughts on visualizations in diverse cultural settings: The case of France and Pakistan, E. De Vries, M. Ashraf -- Chapter 8 : The implication of culture for teachers’ use of representations, B. Waldrip, S. Satupo, F. Rodie -- Chapter 9 : The interplay between language and visualization: The role of the teacher, L. Mammino -- Chapter 10: Visualizations in popular books about chemistry, J.K. Gilbert, A. Afonso -- Section D: Teachers’ supporting student learning from visual representations -- Introduction -- Chapter 11 : Teachers using interactive simulations to scaffold inquiry instruction in physical science education, D. Geelan, X.Fan -- Chapter 12: Transformed instruction: Teaching in a student-generated representations learning environment, O. Parnafes, R. Trachtenberg-Maslaton -- Chapter 13: The laboratory for making things: Developing multiple representations of knowledge, J. Bamberger -- Section E: Overview -- Chapter 14: Developing science teachers’ representational competence and its impact on their teaching, J.K.Gilbert, B. Eilam.
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789401790116
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 283 p. 186 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences 5
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Logik ; Rationalität ; Vernunft
    Abstract: This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the Logic, Reasoning and Rationality 2010 conference (LRR10) in Ghent. The conference aimed at stimulating the use of formal frameworks to explicate concrete cases of human reasoning, and conversely, to challenge scholars in formal studies by presenting them with interesting new cases of actual reasoning. According to the members of the Wiener Kreis, there was a strong connection between logic, reasoning, and rationality and that human reasoning is rational in so far as it is based on (classical) logic. Later, this belief came under attack and logic was deemed inadequate to explicate actual cases of human reasoning. Today, there is a growing interest in reconnecting logic, reasoning and rationality. A central motor for this change was the development of non-classical logics and non-classical formal frameworks. The book contains contributions in various non-classical formal frameworks, case studies that enhance our apprehension of concrete reasoning patterns, and studies of the philosophical implications for our understanding of the notions of rationality
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Erik Weber, Joke Meheus & Dietlinde WoutersChapter 1. Adaptive Logics as a Necessary Tool for Relative Rationality. Including a Section on Logical Pluralism; Diderik Batens -- Chapter 2. A New Approach to Epistemic Logic; Giovanna Corsi and Gabriele Tassi -- Chapter 3. Explaining Capacities: Assessing the Explanatory Power of Models in the Cognitive Sciences; Raoul Gervais -- Chapter 4. Data-driven Induction in Scientific Discovery. A Critical Assessment Based on Kepler’s Discoveries; Albrecht Heeffer -- Chapter 5. Dovetailing Belief Base Revision with (Basic) Truth Approximation; Theo A.F. Kuipers -- Chapter 6. A Method of Generating Modal Logics Defining Jaśkowski’s Discussive D2 Consequence; Marek Nasieniewski and Andrzej Pietruszczak -- Chapter 7. Frontier Theory of Inquiry: Apparent Conflicts between the Ghent Logical Program and the “Darwinian” Selectionist Program; Thomas Nickles -- Chapter 8. On the Propagation of Consistency in Some Systems of Paraconsistent Logic; Hitoshi Omori and Toshiharu Waragai -- Chapter 9. Degrees of Validity and the Logical Paradoxes; Francesco Orilia -- Chapter 10. Contradictory Concepts; Graham Priest -- Chapter 11. Bloody Analogical Reasoning; Dagmar Provijn -- Chapter 12. Another Look at Mathematical Style, as Inspired by Le Lionnais and the OuLiPo; Jean Paul Van Bendegem and Bart Van Kerkhove -- Chapter 13. Internalism Does Entail Scepticism; Jan Willem Wieland -- Chapter 14. Answering by Means of Questions in View of Inferential Erotetic Logic; Andrzej Wiśniewski.
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    ISBN: 9789400770096
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 454 p. 149 illus., 106 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: This book deals with uncertainty and graphing in scientific discovery work from a social practice perspective. It is based on a 5-year ethnographic study in an advanced experimental biology laboratory. The book shows how, in discovery work where scientists do not initially know what to make of graphs, there is a great deal of uncertainty and scientists struggle in trying to make sense of what to make of graphs. Contrary to the belief that scientists have no problem “interpreting” graphs, the chapters in this book make clear that uncertainty about their research object is tied to uncertainty of the graphs. It may take scientists several years of struggle in their workplace before they find out just what their graphs are evidence of. Graphs turn out to stand to the entire research in a part/whole relation, where scientists not only need to be highly familiar with the context from which their data are extracted but also with the entire process by means of which the natural world comes to be transformed and represented in the graph. This has considerable implications for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education at the secondary and tertiary level, as well as in vocational training. This book discusses and elaborates these implications
    Description / Table of Contents: PrefacePART A: INTRODUCTION -- 1. Toward a Dynamic Theory of Graphing -- PART B: GRAPHING IN A DISCOVERY SCIENCE -- 2. Radical Uncertainty in/of the Discovery Sciences -- 3. Uncertainties in/of Data Generation -- 4. Coping with Variability -- 5. Undoing Decontextualization -- 6. On Contradictions in Data Interpretation -- 7. A Scientific Revolution that Was Not -- 8. Some Lessons from Discovery Science -- PART C: RETHEORIZING GRAPHING -- 9. Graphing*-in-the-Making -- 10. Graphing in, for, and as Societal Relation -- PART D: UNCERTAINTY AND GRAPHING IN STEM EDUCATION -- 11. Uncertainty, Inquiry, Bricolage.-12. Data and Graphing in STEM Education -- PART D: EPILOGUE -- 13. Discovery Science and Authentic Learning -- Appendix -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9789401788601
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 334 p. 44 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Outstanding Contributions to Logic 4
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Computer science ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Computer science
    Abstract: This volume is dedicated to Leo Esakia's contributions to the theory of modal and intuitionistic systems. Consisting of 10 chapters, written by leading experts, this volume discusses Esakia’s original contributions and consequent developments that have helped to shape duality theory for modal and intuitionistic logics, and to utilize it to obtain some major results in the area. Beginning with a chapter which explores Esakia duality for S4-algebras, the volume goes on to explore Esakia duality for Heyting algebras and its generalizations to weak Heyting algebras and implicative semilattices. The book also dives into the Blok-Esakia theorem and provides an outline of the intuitionistic modal logic KM which is closely related to the Gödel-Löb provability logic GL. One chapter scrutinizes Esakia’s work interpreting modal diamond as the derivative of a topological space within the setting of point-free topology. The final chapter in the volume is dedicated to the derivational semantics of modal logic and other related issues
    Description / Table of Contents: PrefaceIntroduction -- Esakia’s Biography -- Canonical extensions, Esakia spaces, and universal models; Mai Gehrke -- Free modal algebras revisited: the step-by-step method; Nick Bezhanishvili, Silvio Ghilardi, and Mamuka Jibladze -- Easkia duality and its extensions; Sergio A. Celani and Ramon Jansana -- On the Blok-Esakia Theorem; Frank Wolter and Michael Zakharyaschev -- Modal logic and the Vietoris functor; Yde Venema and Jacob Vosmaer -- Logic KM: A Biography; Alexei Muravitsky -- Constructive modalities with provability smack; Tadeusz Litak -- Cantor-Bendixson properties of the assembly of a frame; Harold Simmons -- Topological interpretations of provability logic; Lev Beklemishev and David Gabelaia -- Derivational modal logics with the difference modality; Andrey Kudinov and Valentin Shehtman -- Esakia’s Bibliography.
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    ISBN: 9789401790970
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 298 p. 32 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Wissenschaftskommunikation ; Asiatisch-Pazifischer Raum
    Abstract: This book explores effective approaches for communicating science to the public in developing countries. Offering multiple perspectives on this important topic, it features 17 chapters that represent the efforts of 23 authors from eight countries: Australia, Bangladesh, India, Ireland, New Zealand, USA, Singapore and South Africa. Inside, readers will find a diversity of approaches to communicate science to the public. The book also highlights some of the challenges that science communicators, science policy makers, science teachers, university academics in the sciences and even entrepreneurs may face in their attempts to boost science literacy levels in their countries. In addition, it shares several best practices from the developed world that may help readers create communication initiatives that can lead to increased engagement with science in communities in the Asia Pacific region and beyond. Given the pervasive influence of science and technology in today’s society, their impact will only increase in the years to come as the world becomes more globalized and the economies of countries become more inter-linked. This book will be a useful source of reference for developing countries looking to tap into the potential of science for nation building and effectively engage their communities to better understand science and technology. Supported by the Pacific Science Association, Hawaii
    Description / Table of Contents: SchoolsPromoting science literacy via science journalism: Issues and challenges, Billy McClune, and Ruth Jarman -- Science clubs: An under-utilized tool for promoting science communication activities in schools, M. Shaheed Hartley -- Developing scientific literacy from engaging in science in everyday life: Ideas for science educators, Teo Tang Wee and Lim Kim Yong -- The nature of science kits in affecting change in public attitude towards and understanding of science, Daniel Dickerson and Craig Stewart -- Field trips to industrial establishments: Infinite opportunities for popularizing science, Irene Tan and Charles Chew -- Science centers -- A role for science centers in communicating science - A personal view, Graham Durant -- Science communicators as commercial and social entrepreneurs, Graham Walker -- Assessing science communication effectiveness: Issues in evacuation and measurement, Rod Lamberts and Catherine Rayner -- Universities -- Graduate degree programs in science communication: Educating and training science communicators to work with communities, Nancy Longnecker and Mzamose Gondwe -- Outreach activities by universities as a channel for science communication, Lloyd Spencer Davis -- Role of learned societies in science communication, Leo Tan Wee Hin and R. Subramaniam -- Science Olympiads as vehicles for identifying talent in the sciences: The Singapore experience, Shirley S. L. Lim, Horn-Mun Cheah and Tzi-Sum Andy Hor -- Challenges facing developing countries in the promotion of science communication, Leo Tan Wee Hin and R. Subramaniam -- General communication initiatives -- Web-based channels for science communication, Karen Bultitude -- Science communication through mobile devices, Oum Prakash Sharma -- Café scientfiques, Duncan Dallas -- Television as a medium of science, M. Shamsher Ali.
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    ISBN: 9789048194735
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 988 p. 79 illus., 18 illus. in color. eReference, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Eemeren, Frans H. van, 1946 - Handbook of argumentation theory
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    Abstract: The Handbook Argumentation Theory provides an up to date survey of the various theoretical contributions to the development of argumentation theory for all scholars interested in argumentation, informal logic and rhetoric. It describes the historical roots of modern argumentation theory that are still an important theoretical background to contemporary approaches. Because of the complexity, diversity and rate of developments in argumentation theory, there is a real need for an overview of the state of the art, the main approaches that can be distinguished and the distinctive features of these approaches. The Handbook covers classical and modern backgrounds to the study of argumentation, the New Rhetoric developed by Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca, the Toulmin model, formal approaches, informal logic, communication and rhetoric, pragmatic approaches, linguistic approaches and pragma-dialectics. The Handbook is co-authored by Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Erik C.W. Krabbe, A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Bart Verheij and Jean Wagemans, who are a coherent and prominent writing team whose expertise covers the whole field. The authors are assisted by an international Editorial Board consisting of outstanding argumentation scholars whose fields of interest are represented in the volume
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    ISBN: 9789400776548
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 2532 p. 86 illus., 20 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. International handbook of research in history, philosophy and science teaching
    Keywords: Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science History ; Education Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: This inaugural handbook documents the distinctive research field that utilizes history and philosophy in investigation of theoretical, curricular and pedagogical issues in the teaching of science and mathematics. It is contributed to by 130 researchers from 30 countries; it provides a logically structured, fully referenced guide to the ways in which science and mathematics education is, informed by the history and philosophy of these disciplines, as well as by the philosophy of education more generally. The first handbook to cover the field, it lays down a much-needed marker of progress to date and provides a platform for informed and coherent future analysis and research of the subject. The publication comes at a time of heightened worldwide concern over the standard of science and mathematics education, attended by fierce debate over how best to reform curricula and enliven student engagement in the subjects There is a growing recognition among educators and policy makers that the learning of science must dovetail with learning about science; this handbook is uniquely positioned as a locus for the discussion. The handbook features sections on pedagogical, theoretical, national, and biographical research, setting the literature of each tradition in its historical context. Each chapter engages in an assessment of the strengths and weakness of the research addressed, and suggests potentially fruitful avenues of future research. A key element of the handbook’s broader analytical framework is its identification and examination of unnoticed philosophical assumptions in science and mathematics research. It reminds readers at a crucial juncture that there has been a long and rich tradition of historical and philosophical engagements with science and mathematics teaching, and that lessons can be learnt from these engagements for the resolution of current theoretical, curricular and pedagogical questions that face teachers and administrators
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: The History, Purpose and Content of the Springer International Handbook of Research in History, Philosophy and Science Teaching ; 1.1 The International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Group; 1.2 Science & Education Journal; 1.3 The Handbook Project; 1.4 Handbook Structure; 1.4.1 Pedagogical Studies; 1.4.2 Theoretical Studies; 1.4.3 Regional Studies; 1.4.4 Biographical Studies; 1.5 Writing and Communication; Part I: Pedagogical Studies: Physics; Chapter 2: Pendulum Motion: A Case Study in How History and Philosophy Can Contribute to Science Education
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1 Introduction2.2 Galileo's Pendulum Analysis; 2.3 Galileo's Methodological Innovation; 2.4 Galileo, Experimentation and Measurement; 2.5 Contemporary Reproductions of Galileo's Experiments; 2.6 The Pendulum and Timekeeping; 2.7 The Pendulum in Newton's Mechanics; 2.7.1 The Demonstration of Newton's Laws; 2.7.2 Unifying Terrestrial and Celestial Mechanics; 2.8 Huygens' Proposal of an International Standard of Length; 2.9 The Pendulum and Determining the Shape of the Earth; 2.10 The Testing of Scientific Theories; 2.11 Some Social and Cultural Impacts of Timekeeping
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.11.1 Solving the Longitude Problem2.11.2 A Clockwork Society; 2.11.3 A Clockwork Universe and Its Maker; 2.11.4 Foucault's Pendulum Makes Visible the Earth's Rotation; 2.12 The Pendulum in the Classroom; 2.13 The Pendulum and Textbooks; 2.14 The Pendulum and Recent US Science Education Reform Proposals; 2.14.1 Scope, Sequence and Coordination; 2.14.2 Project 2061; 2.14.3 The US National Standards; 2.14.4 America's Lab Report; 2.14.5 The Next Generation Science Standards; 2.15 The International Pendulum Project; 2.16 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Using History to Teach Mechanics
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.1 Introduction3.2 A Brief History of Mechanics from Aristotle to Newton and Beyond; 3.2.1 Aristotle; 3.2.2 Projectile Motion; 3.2.3 Free Fall; 3.2.4 Forced Motion; 3.2.5 Circular Motion; 3.2.6 Impact; 3.2.7 Pendulum Motion; 3.2.8 Isaac Newton; 3.2.9 Beyond Newton; 3.3 History of Mechanics and the Nature of Science; 3.3.1 Some Issues in the History of Mechanics; 3.3.1.1 Force; 3.3.1.2 Inertial Mass; 3.3.1.3 Mathematics; 3.3.2 Some Philosophical Issues; 3.3.2.1 Meaning Matters; 3.3.2.2 Idealisation in Mechanics; 3.3.2.3 Empiricism Versus Realism in Mechanics
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3.2.4 The Role of Observation and Experiment3.3.3 Frontier Science; 3.3.4 Mechanics and Technology; 3.4 History of Mechanics and Student Conceptions; 3.5 Some Historical Resources for Teaching Mechanics; 3.5.1 Explanations and Illustrations; 3.5.2 Thought Experiments; 3.5.2.1 Galileo and the Speed of Falling Bodies; 3.5.2.2 Stevin and the Inclined Plane; 3.5.3 Experiments, Instruments and Technological Devices; 3.5.3.1 The Inclined Plane Experiment; 3.5.3.2 The Parabolic Path of Trajectories and the Law of Free Fall; 3.5.3.3 Newton's Colliding Pendulums
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5.4 Anecdotes, Vignettes and Stories
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION, MICHAEL R. MATTHEWSPart I: PEDAGOGICAL STUDIES -- Physics -- MICHAEL R. MATTHEWS, Pendulum Motion: A Case Study in How History and Philosophy can Contribute to Science Education -- COLIN F. GAULD, Using History to Teach Mechanics -- IGAL GALILI , Teaching Optics: A Historico-Philosophical Perspective -- JENARO GUISASOLA, Teaching and Learning Electricity: The Relations between Macroscopic Level Observations and Microscopic Level Theories -- OLIVIA LEVRINI, The Role of History and Philosophy in Research on Teaching and Learning of Relativity -- ILEANA M. GRECA & OLIVAL FREIRE Jr, Meeting the Challenge: Quantum Physics in Introductory Physics Courses -- MANUEL BÄCHTOLD & MURIEL GUEDJ, Teaching Energy Informed by the History and Epistemology of the Concept with Implications for Teacher Education -- UGO BESSON, Teaching about Thermal Phenomena and Thermodynamics: The Contribution of History and Philosophy of Science -- Chemistry -- SIBEL ERDURAN & EBRU MUGALOGLU, Philosophy of Chemistry in Chemical Education: Recent Trends and Future Directions -- KEVIN C. DE BERG, The Place of the History of Chemistry in the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry -- JOSÉ ANTONIO CHAMIZO & ANDONI GARRITZ, Historical Teaching of Atomic and Molecular Structure -- Biology -- KOSTAS KAMPOURAKIS & ROSS NEHM, History and Philosophy of Science and the Teaching of Evolution: Students' Conceptions and Explanations -- ROSS NEHM & KOSTAS KAMPOURAKIS, History and Philosophy of Science and the Teaching of Macroevolution -- NIKLAS M. GERICKE & MIKE U. SMITH, 21st Century Genetics and Genomics: Contributions of HPS -Informed Research and Pedagogy -- CHARBEL N. EL-HANI, ANA MARIA R. DE ALMEIDA, GILBERTO C. BOMFIM, LEYLA M. JOAQUIM, JOÃO CARLOS M. MAGALHÃES, LIA M. N. MEYER, MAIANA A. PITOMBO & VANESSA C. DOS SANTOS, The Contribution of History  and Philosophy to the Problem of Hybrid Views about Genes in Genetics Teaching -- Ecology -- AGELIKI LEFKADITI, KOSTAS KORFIATIS, & TASOS HOVARDAS, Contextualizing the Teaching and Learning of Ecology: Historical and Philosophical Considerations -- Earth Sciences -- GLENN DOLPHIN & JEFF DODICK, Teaching Controversies in Earth Science: The Role of History and Philosophy of Science -- Astronomy -- HORACIO TIGNANELLI  & YANN BENÉTREAU-DUPIN, Perspectives of History and Philosophy on Teaching Astronomy   -- Cosmology -- HELGE KRAGH, The Science of the Universe: Cosmology and Science Education -- Mathematics -- MICHAEL N. FRIED, History of Mathematics in Mathematics Education -- STUART ROWLANDS, Philosophy and the Secondary School Mathematics Classroom -- EDUARD GLAS, A Role for Quasi-Empiricism in Mathematics Education -- KATHLEEN MICHELLE CLARK, History of Mathematics in Teacher Education -- JUDITH V. GRABINER, The Role of Mathematics in Liberal Arts Education -- TINNE HOFF KJELDSEN & JESSICA CARTER, The Role of History and Philosophy in University Mathematics Education -- UFFE THOMAS JANKVIST, Use of Primary Sources in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics -- Part II: THEORETICAL STUDIES -- (a) Features of Science and Education -- DEREK HODSON, Nature of Science in the Science Curriculum: Origin, Development and Shifting Emphases -- NORMAN G. LEDERMAN, STEPHEN A. BARTOS & JUDITH S. LEDERMAN, The Development, Use, and Interpretation of Nature of Science Assessments -- GÜROL IRZIK & ROBERT NOLA, New Directions for Nature of Science Research -- PETER SLEZAK, Constructivism in Science Education -- JIM MACKENZIE, RON GOOD & JAMES ROBERT BROWN, Postmodernism and Science Education: An Appraisal -- ANA C. COULÓ, Philosophical Dimensions of Social and Ethical Issues in School Science Education: Values in Science and in Science Classrooms -- GÁBOR ZEMPLÉN & GÁBOR KUTROVÁTZ, Social Studies of Science and Science Teaching -- ISMO KOPONEN & SUVI TALA, Generative Modeling in Physics and in Physics Education: From Aspects of Research Practices to Suggestions for Education -- CYNTHIA PASSMORE, JULIA SVOBODA GOUVEA & RONALD GIERE, Models in Science and in Learning Science: Focusing Scientific Practice on Sense-making  -- ZOUBEIDA R. DAGHER & SIBEL ERDURAN, Laws and Explanations in Biology and Chemistry: Philosophical Perspectives and Educational Implications -- MERVI A ASIKAINEN & PEKKA E HIRVONEN, Thought Experiments in Science and in Science Education -- (b) Teaching, Learning and Understanding Science -- ROLAND M SCHULZ, Philosophy of Education and Science Education: An Underdeveloped but Vital Relationship -- STEPHEN P. NORRIS, LINDA M. PHILLIPS & DAVID P. BURNS, Conceptions of Scientific Literacy: Identifying and Evaluating their Programmatic Elements -- BRIAN DUNST & ALEX LEVINE, Conceptual Change:  Analogies Great and Small, and the Quest for Coherence -- GREGORY J. KELLY, Inquiry Teaching and Learning: Philosophical Considerations -- WENDY SHERMAN HECKLER, Research on Student Learning in Science: A Wittgensteinian Perspective -- MANSOOR NIAZ / Science Textbooks: The Role of History and Philosophy of Science -- AGUSTÍN ADÚRIZ-BRAVO, Revisiting School Scientific Argumentation from the Perspective of the History and Philosophy of Science -- PETER HEERING & DIETMAR HÖTTECKE, Historical-Investigative Approaches in Science Teaching -- STEPHEN KLASSEN & CATHRINE FROESE KLASSEN, Science Teaching with Historically Based Stories: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives -- TIM SPROD, Philosophical Inquiry and Critical Thinking in Primary and Secondary Science Education -- ANASTASIA FILIPPOUPOLITI & DIMITRIS KOLIOPOULOS, Informal and Non-formal Education: History of Science in Museums -- (c) Science, Culture and Society -- MICHAEL R. MATTHEWS, Science, Worldviews and Education -- MICHAEL J. REISS, What Significance does Christianity have for Science Education? -- TANER EDIS & SAOUMA BOUJAOUDE, Rejecting Materialism: Responses to Modern Science in the Muslim Middle East -- SUNDAR SARUKKAI, Indian Experiences with Science: Considerations for History, Philosophy and Science Education -- JEFF DODICK & RAPHAEL SHUCHAT, Historical Interactions between Judaism and Science and their Influence on Science Teaching and Learning -- KAI HORSTHEMKE & LARRY YORE, Challenges of Multiculturalism in Science Education: Indigenisation, Internationalisation, and Transkulturalität -- MARTIN MAHNER, Science, Religion, and Naturalism: Metaphysical and Methodological Incompatibilities -- (d) Science Education Research -- KEITH S TABER, Methodological Issues in Science Education Research: A Perspective from the Philosophy of Science -- VELI-MATTI VESTERINEN, MARÍA ANTONIA MANASSERO-MAS & ÁNGEL VÁZQUEZ-ALONSO, History and Philosophy of Science and Science, Technology and Society Traditions in Science Education: Their Continuities and Discontinuities -- CHRISTINE L. MCCARTHY, Cultural Studies in Science Education: Philosophical Considerations -- KATHRYN M. OLESKO, Science Education in the Historical Study of the Sciences -- Part 111: REGIONAL STUDIES -- WILLIAM F. MCCOMAS, Nature of Science in the Science Curriculum and in Teacher Education Programmes in the United States -- DON METZ, The History and Philosophy of Science in Science Curricula and Teacher Education in Canada -- JOHN L. TAYLOR & ANDREW HUNT, History and Philosophy of Science and the Teaching of Science in England -- LIBORIO DIBATTISTA & FRANCESCA MORGESE, Incorporation of History and Philosophy of Science and Nature of Science Content in School and Teacher Education Programmes in Europe -- JOSIP SLISKO & ZALKIDA HADZIBEGOVIC, History in Bosnia and Herzegovina Physics Textbooks for Primary School - Historical Accuracy and Cognitive Adequacy -- SIU LING WONG, ZHI HONG WAN & KA LOK CHENG, One Country Two Systems: Nature of Science (NOS) Education in Mainland China and Hong Kong -- JINWOONG SONG & YONG JAE JOUNG, Trends in History and Philosophy of  Science and Nature of Science Research in Korean Science Education -- YUKO MURAKAMI & MANABU SUMIDA, History and Philosophy of Science and Nature of Science Research in Japan: A Historical Overview -- ANA BARAHONA, ANDONI GARRITZ, JOSÉ ANTONIO CHAMIZO & JOSIP SLISKO, The History and Philosophy of Science and Science Teaching in Mexico -- ROBERTO DE ANDRADE MARTINS, CIBELLE CELESTINO SILVA, & MARIA ELICE BRZEZINSKI PRESTES, History and Philosophy of Science in Science Education, in Brazil -- IRENE ARRIASSECQ & ALCIRA RIVAROSA, Science Teaching and Research in Argentina: The Contribution of History and Philosophy of Science -- Part 1V: BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES -- HAYO SIEMSEN, Ernst Mach: A Genetic Introduction to His Educational Theory and Pedagogy -- WILLIAM H. BROCK & EDGAR W. JENKINS, Frederick W. Westaway and Science Education: An Endless Quest -- EDGAR W. JENKINS, E. J. Holmyard (1891-1959) and the Historical Approach to Science Teaching -- JAMES SCOTT JOHNSTON, John Dewey and Science Education -- GEORGE DEBOER, Joseph Schwab: His Work and His Legacy.
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    ISBN: 9789400744387
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 375 p. 31 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 26
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Tanaka, Kōji, 1965 - Paraconsistency
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Parakonsistente Logik
    Abstract: A logic is called 'paraconsistent' if it rejects the rule called 'ex contradictione quodlibet', according to which any conclusion follows from inconsistent premises. While logicians have proposed many technically developed paraconsistent logical systems and contemporary philosophers like Graham Priest have advanced the view that some contradictions can be true, and advocated a paraconsistent logic to deal with them, until recent times these systems have been little understood by philosophers. This book presents a comprehensive overview on paraconsistent logical systems to change this situation. The book includes almost every major author currently working in the field. The papers are on the cutting edge of the literature some of which discuss current debates and others present important new ideas. The editors have avoided papers about technical details of paraconsistent logic, but instead concentrated upon works that discuss more "big picture" ideas. Different treatments of paradoxes takes centre stage in many of the papers, but also there are several papers on how to interpret paraconistent logic and some on how it can be applied to philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, and metaphysics
    Abstract: A logic is called 'paraconsistent' if it rejects the rule called 'ex contradictione quodlibet', according to which any conclusion follows from inconsistent premises. While logicians have proposed many technically developed paraconsistent logical systems and contemporary philosophers like Graham Priest have advanced the view that some contradictions can be true, and advocated a paraconsistent logic to deal with them, until recent times these systems have been little understood by philosophers. This book presents a comprehensive overview on paraconsistent logical systems to change this situation. The book includes almost every major author currently working in the field. The papers are on the cutting edge of the literature some of which discuss current debates and others present important new ideas. The editors have avoided papers about technical details of paraconsistent logic, but instead concentrated upon works that discuss more 'big picture' ideas. Different treatments of paradoxes takes centre stage in many of the papers, but also there are several papers on how to interpret paraconistent logic and some on how it can be applied to philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, and metaphysics.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Part 2. Applications ; An Approach to Human-Level Commonsense Reasoning , Paraconsistency: Introduction , Distribution in the Logic of Meaning Containment and in Quantum Mechanics , Wittgenstein on Incompleteness Makes Paraconsistent Sense , Pluralism and "Bad" Mathematical Theories: Challenging our Prejudices , Arithmetic Starred , Notes on Inconsistent Set Theory , Sorting out the Sorites , Are the Sorites and Liar Paradox of a Kind? , Vague Inclosures , Part 1. Logic ; Making Sense of Paraconsistent Logic: The Nature of Logic, Classical Logic and Paraconsistent Logic , On Discourses Addressed by Infidel Logicians , Information, Negation, and Paraconsistency , Noisy vs. Merely Equivocal Logics , Assertion, Denial and Non-classical Theories , New Arguments for Adaptive Logics as Unifying Frame for the Defeasible Handling of Inconsistency , Consequence as Preservation: Some Refinements , On Modal Logics Defining Jaśkowski's D2-Consequence , FDE: A Logic of Clutters , A Paraconsistent and Substructural Conditional Logic
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    ISBN: 9789400744646
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 156 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 29
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Frápolli, María José, 1960 - The nature of truth
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Pragmatism ; Semantics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Pragmatism ; Semantics ; Truth ; Wahrheit ; Wahrheit
    Abstract: The book offers a characterization of the meaning and role of the notion of truth in natural languages and an explanation of why, in spite of the big amount of proposals about truth, this task has proved to be resistant to the different analyses. The general thesis of the book is that defining truth is perfectly possible and that the average educated philosopher of language has the tools to do it. The book offers an updated treatment of the meaning of truth ascriptions from taking into account the latest views in philosophy of language and linguistics.
    Abstract: The wealth of proposals about truth and its meaning in natural languages everywhere should open it to analysis and definition, but this book makes the startlingly rare assertion that we can define truth using the latest methods in linguistics and philosophy
    Description / Table of Contents: The Nature of Truth; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Some Preliminary Issues; 1.1 The General Purpose; 1.2 Some Features of the Proposal; 1.3 Required Philosophical Assumptions; 1.4 The Content of a Theory of Truth; 1.5 The Pragmatist Ingredient; 1.6 The Structure of the Book; Chapter 2: Syntax: Playing with Building Blocks; 2.1 Does Syntax Matter?; 2.2 The Truth Predicate; 2.3 The Truth Operator; 2.4 Truth and Identity; 2.5 Adverbs, Adjectives and Nouns; Chapter 3: The Meaning and Content of Truth Ascriptions; 3.1 The Distinction; 3.2 Kinds of Proforms; 3.3 Truth-Ascriptions
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4 A Classification of Truth-Ascriptions3.5 Special Semantic Tasks; Chapter 4: What Do We Do with Truth Ascriptions?; 4.1 Pragmatics and Semantics; 4.2 Assertions; 4.3 Expressivism; 4.4 Particular Pragmatic Functions; Chapter 5: The Liar Paradox (And Other Logico-Semantic Issues); 5.1 Is There a Liar Paradox?; 5.2 Truth Bearers; 5.3 Logical Form; 5.4 The Paradox; Chapter 6: What Do You Mean by "Redundancy"?; 6.1 R amsey's View; 6.2 Redundancy, of What?; 6.3 Syntactic Redundancy; 6.4 Semantic Redundancy; 6.5 Pragmatic Redundancy; Chapter 7: Obvious Answers for Ready-Made Objections
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.1 Standard Objections7.2 The Epistemic Objections; 7.2.1 Definitions vs. Criteria; 7.2.2 The Causal Effect of Truth; 7.3 The Logical Objection; 7.4 The Semantic Objection; 7.5 Mathematical Truth and Other Metaphors; References; Index;
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    ISBN: 9789400745995 , 128363385X , 9781283633857
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 255 p. 102 illus., 12 illus. in color, digital)
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 357
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Betz, Gregor Debate dynamics: how controversy improves our beliefs
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Artificial intelligence ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Artificial intelligence ; Argumentationstheorie ; Debatte
    Abstract: Is critical argumentation an effective way to overcome disagreement? And does the exchange of arguments bring opponents in a controversy closer to the truth? This study provides a new perspective on these pivotal questions. By means of multi-agent simulations, it investigates the truth and consensus-conduciveness of controversial debates. The book brings together research in formal epistemology and argumentation theory. Aside from its consequences for discursive practice, the work may have important implications for philosophy of science and the way we construe scientific rationality as well.
    Description / Table of Contents: Debate Dynamics: How Controversy Improves Our Beliefs; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: General Introduction; 1.1 The Aims of Argumentation; 1.2 An Example of a Controversial Argumentation; 1.3 Modeling Controversial Debate; 1.4 Results Pertaining to Consensus-Conduciveness; 1.5 Results Pertaining to Truth-Conduciveness; 1.6 Objections and Caveats; 1.7 Putting the Approach in Perspective; Chapter 2: An Introduction to the Theory of Dialectical Structures; 2.1 Fundamental Concepts; 2.2 Degrees of Justification; 2.3 The Space of Coherent Positions; 2.4 Normalized Closeness Centrality
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.5 Inferential Density2.6 The General Design of the Simulations; Part I: Why Do We Agree? On the Consensus-Conduciveness of Controversial Argumentation; Chapter 3: Introduction to Part I; 3.1 Outline of Part I; 3.2 Main Results and Their Justification; Chapter 4: The Consensual Dynamics of Simple Random Debates; 4.1 Setup; 4.2 Results; 4.3 Discussion; 4.4 Results, Continued; 4.5 Discussion, Continued; Chapter 5: The Consensual Dynamics of Random Debates with Explicit Background Knowledge; 5.1 Setup; 5.2 Results; 5.3 Discussion
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Comparing the Consensual Dynamics of Four Proponent-Specific Argumentation Strategies in Dualistic Debates6.1 Setup; 6.2 Results; 6.3 Discussion; Chapter 7: The Consensual Dynamics of Argumentation Strategies in Many-Proponent Debates; 7.1 Setup; 7.2 Results; 7.3 Discussion; Chapter 8: The Consensual Dynamics of Debates with Core Updating; 8.1 Setup; 8.2 Results; 8.3 Discussion; Chapter 9: The Consensual Dynamics of Debates with Core Argumentation; 9.1 Setup; 9.2 Results; 9.3 Discussion; Part II: How Do We Know? On the Truth-Conduciveness of Controversial Argumentation
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 10: Introduction to Part II10.1 Outline of Part II; 10.2 Main Results and Their Justification; Chapter 11: The Veritistic Dynamics of Simple Random Debates; 11.1 Setup; 11.2 Results; 11.2.1 Truth's Attraction: How Rapidly Does the Proponents' Verisimilitude Increase?; 11.2.2 The Verisimilitude of Consensus Positions: Is Mutual Agreement a Good Indicator of Having Reached the Truth?; 11.2.3 The Verisimilitude of Stable Positions: Are Proponent Positions Which Remain Relatively Stable Closer to the Truth?; 11.3 Discussion
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 12: The Veritistic Dynamics of Random Debates with Explicit Background Knowledge12.1 Setup; 12.2 Results; 12.3 Discussion; Chapter 13: Comparing the Veritistic Dynamics of Four Proponent-Specific Argumentation Strategies in Dualistic Debates; 13.1 Setup; 13.2 Results; 13.3 Discussion; Chapter 14: The Veritistic Dynamics of Argumentation Strategies in Many-Proponent Debates; 14.1 Setup; 14.2 Results; 14.2.1 Truth's Attraction: How Rapidly Does the Proponents' Verisimilitude Increase?
    Description / Table of Contents: 14.2.2 The Verisimilitude of Consensus Positions: Is Mutual Agreement a Good Indicator of Having Reached the Truth?
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    ISBN: 9789400744585
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 221 p. 24 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Research on PISA
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    Keywords: Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Educational tests and measurements ; Educational psychology ; Literacy ; Education ; Education ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Educational tests and measurements ; Educational psychology ; Literacy ; Konferenzschrift 2009 ; PISA-Studie
    Abstract: The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an important part of the OECD's Indicator Programme. It collects data and provides comparative indicators of education systems in OECD member and partner countries. PISA provides datasets of outstanding quality regarding samples, instruments and analyses. In addition to its important function for educational monitoring, the PISA datasets are the basis of a wide range of secondary analyses from a number of different scientific perspectives and disciplines. The aim of this book is to make some of the outstanding PISA related research results available for a wider audience. Specifically four research areas will be focused: (1) Content related research; (2) Methodological research; (3) Context related research; (4) Research on trends in PISA. Each part of the book is devoted to one of these areas and will start with an introduction from a leading expert in the field followed by chapters covering research conducted in this field.
    Description / Table of Contents: Research on PISA; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Research on PISA, with PISA, and for PISA; The Purpose of PISA; Structure of Research on PISA; Research with PISA: How to Extend a PISA Cycle?; Research on PISA: Some Expectations; References; Part I: Content Related Research; Introduction : Content Related Researchon PISA; References; Chapter 1: Implications of PISA Outcomes for Science Curriculum Reform in the Netherlands; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Dutch Science Education and the PISA 2006 Scientific Literacy Framework; 1.2.1 The PISA 2009 Scientific Literacy Framework
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.2.2 Comparison of Dutch Science Education with the PISA Framework1.2.3 Expected Strengths and Weaknesses of Dutch Students; 1.3 Methods; 1.3.1 Introduction; 1.3.2 Method of Analysis at the Item Level; 1.4 Results; 1.4.1 Strengths and Weaknesses of Dutch Students; 1.4.1.1 Relatively Difficult Items; 1.4.1.2 Relatively Easy Items; 1.4.2 Differences Between Students in General and Vocational Secondary Education; 1.4.3 Analyses of the Attitudinal Scales; 1.5 Conclusions; 1.5.1 Implications for Dutch Science Education; Appendix: PISA items; The Greenhouse Effect: Fact or Fiction?; Mary Montagu
    Description / Table of Contents: The History of VaccinationReferences; Chapter 2: Using Mathematical Competencies to Predict Item Difficulty in PISA: A MEG Study; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Competency Related Variables; 2.3 Analysis of the Application of the MEG Item Difficulty Framework; 2.3.1 Psychometric Quality; 2.3.1.1 Correlation of Variable Average Code Values; 2.3.1.2 Coder Consistency; 2.3.2 Results of Difficulty Analyses; 2.3.2.1 Predicting Variance Explained; 2.3.2.2 Factor Analysis; 2.4 Present Status of the Study; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3: PISA Mathematics in Germany: Extending the Conceptual Framework to Enable a More Differentiated Assessment3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Need to Differentiate: Mathematics Achievement Is Not Homogeneous Across Countries; 3.3 A Model for Mathematical Tasks; 3.4 Features of Mathematical Tasks; 3.5 Profiles of Mathematical Achievement; 3.6 Advantages of Differentiated Assessment; References; Part II: Methodological Research; Introduction: Methodological Research in Large-Scale International Assessments; References; Chapter 4: Modeling Reciprocal Determinism in PISA
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.1 Reciprocal Determinism4.1.1 Reciprocal Determinism in PISA; 4.2 Formulating a Nonrecursive Structural Equation Model; 4.2.1 Identification; 4.2.2 Measurement Models; 4.2.3 Estimation; 4.3 Findings; 4.3.1 The Fit Between the Model and the Data; 4.3.2 Parameter Estimates; 4.3.3 Reciprocal Determinism; 4.3.4 Other Influences on Mathematics Self-efficacy and Achievement; 4.4 Modeling Reciprocal Determinism in PISA; References; Chapter 5: The Measurement of Translation Error in PISA-2006 Items: An Application of the Theory of Test Translation Error; 5.1 Theoretical Framework
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.1.1 Definition of Translation Error
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    ISBN: 9789400743182 , 1283633736 , 9781283633734
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 288 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy 2
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Political science Philosophy ; History ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Political science Philosophy ; History ; Han, Fei
    Abstract: Han Fei, who died in 233 BC, was one of the primary philosophers of Chinas classical era, a reputation still intact despite recent neglect. This edited volume on the thinker, his views on politics and philosophy, and the tensions of his relations with Confucianism (which he derided) is the first of its kind in English.Featuring contributions from specialists in various disciplines including religious studies and literature, this new addition to the Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy series includes the latest research. It breaks new ground with studies of Han Feis intellectual antecedents, and his relationship as a historical figure with Han Feizi, the text attributed to him, as well as surveying the full panoply of his thought. It also includes a chapter length survey of relevant scholarship, both in Chinese and Japanese.
    Description / Table of Contents: Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei; Editor's Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Han Fei and the Han Feizi; Works Cited; Part I: Han Fei's Predecessors; From Historical Evolution to the End of History: Past, Present and Future from Shang Yang to the First Emperor; Change and Stability in Warring States Thought; The Book of Lord Shang; Past, Present and Future in Han Fei; Qin's "End of History" and Its Aftermath; Works Cited; Shen Dao's Theory of fa and His In fl uence on Han Fei; Introduction; The Main Idea of the Shenzi Fragments: fa 法
    Description / Table of Contents: The Source of Law in Shen Dao's TheoryShen Dao's In fl uence on Han Fei; Works Cited; Part II: The Philosophy of Han Fei; Submerged by Absolute Power: The Ruler's Predicament in the Han Feizi; Foundations of the Ruler's Authority; Safeguarding the Ruler's Power; The Invisible Ruler; Back to Ministerial Power?; Conclusion; Works Cited; Beyond the Rule of Rules: The Foundations of Sovereign Power in the Han Feizi; Legitimating a Repressive Order: The Quest for an Artificial Paradise; From the Spontaneous to the Automatic; A Paradise with No Aberrations? The Paradox of the Norm and the Exception
    Description / Table of Contents: Inborn Human Nature: Changeable vs. UnchangeableHuman Qualities: Same vs. Different; The Source of Han Fei's View That Human Beings Focus on Pursuing Their Own Profit; Conclusion; Works Cited; Part IV: Studies of Specific Chapters; The Difficulty with "The Dif fi culties of Persuasion" ("Shuinan" 說難); Shui 說 in the Han Feizi; The Contradictions of "The Difficulties of Persuasion"; Early Authors on the Morality of shui 說; "Solitary Frustration" and the Morality of "The Dif fi culties of Persuasion"; The Legacy of Han Fei; Works Cited
    Description / Table of Contents: Han Feizi and the Old Master: A Comparative Analysis and Translation of Han Feizi Chapter 20, "Jie Lao," and Chapter 21, "Yu Lao"Introduction; Exegetical Strategies: Philosophical Principles Versus Illustrative Anecdotes; Passages Cited; Citation Styles; Citation Content: The Whole vs. The Part?; The Han Feizi and the Wang Bi Laozi Texts; Markers of Date; Bang Versus Guo to Denote the Concept of the State; The Historical Anecdotes of "Yu Lao"; Viewpoint and Vocabulary; "Yu Lao"; "Jie Lao"; Harmonizing Inner Potency, Humaneness, Righteousness, and Ritual ( de 德, ren 仁, yi 義, li 禮)
    Description / Table of Contents: Cultivating the Compassion of the Mother
    Description / Table of Contents: Works CitedHan Fei on the Problem of Morality; What Is Order?; On Morality and Order; A Possible Role for Morality in Governance?; On the Notion of Desert; Works Cited; Part III: Han Fei and Confucianism; Han Fei and Confucianism: Toward a Synthesis; Works Cited; Did Xunzi's Theory of Human Nature Provide the Foundation for the Political Thought of Han Fei?; Introduction; Modern Scholars' Views of the Relationship Between Xunzi and Han Fei; The Concept of xing in the Xunzi and the Han Feizi; Minxing 民性; Tianxing 天性; Qingxing 情性; The Concept of ren 人 (Mankind) in the Xunzi and the Han Feizi
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    ISBN: 9789400753075
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 196 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Muslims in Global Societies Series 5
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    Keywords: Religion and education ; History ; Migration ; Education ; Education ; Religion and education ; History ; Migration ; Judenvernichtung ; Muslim ; Einstellung ; Soziale Wahrnehmung ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: The way people think about the Holocaust is changing. The particular nature of the transformation depends on people's historical perspectives and how they position themselves and their nation or community vis-à-vis the tragedy. Understandably, European Muslims perceive the Holocaust as less central to their history than do other Europeans. Yet while the acknowledgement and commemoration of the horrors of the Holocaust are increasingly important in Europe, Holocaust denial and biased views on the Holocaust are widespread in European Muslims' countries of origin. In this book, a number of distinguished scholars and educators of various backgrounds discuss views of the Holocaust. Problematic views are often influenced by a persistent attitude of Holocaust denial which is derived, in part, from discourses in the Muslim communities in their countries of origin. The essays collected here explore the backgrounds of these perceptions and highlight positive approaches and developments. Many of the contributions were written by people working in the field and reflecting on their experiences. This collection also reveals that problematic views of the Holocaust are not limited to Muslim communities
    Abstract: The way people think about the Holocaust is changing. The particular nature of the transformation depends on people’s historical perspectives and how they position themselves and their nation or community vis-à-vis the tragedy. Understandably, European Muslims perceive the Holocaust as less central to their history than do other Europeans. Yet while the acknowledgement and commemoration of the horrors of the Holocaust are increasingly important in Europe, Holocaust denial and biased views on the Holocaust are widespread in European Muslims’ countries of origin.In this book, a number of distinguished scholars and educators of various backgrounds discuss views of the Holocaust. Problematic views are often influenced by a persistent attitude of Holocaust denial which is derived, in part, from discourses in the Muslim communities in their countries of origin. The essays collected here explore the backgrounds of these perceptions and highlight positive approaches and developments. Many of the contributions were written by people working in the field and reflecting on their experiences. This collection also reveals that problematic views of the Holocaust are not limited to Muslim communities.
    Description / Table of Contents: Perceptions of the Holocaust in Europe and Muslim Communities; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; References; History Aside?; Antisemitism and Holocaust Remembrance; References; Participation of European Muslim Organisations in Holocaust Commemorations; Introduction; International Commemoration; Muslim Reactions to Holocaust Commemoration; Muslim Leaders Address the Holocaust; Teaching the Holocaust; Assessment; References; The Evolution of Arab Perceptions of the Holocaust; From the End of WWII to the Establishment of Israel
    Description / Table of Contents: The Evolution of the Major Themes of Holocaust RepresentationCritical Voices in a Promising Era of a Peace Process; The Counter Reaction to the New Discourse; Conclusions; References; Perceptions of the Holocaust in Turkey; 'Positive' Perceptions of the Holocaust; The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust; The 'Turkish Diplomats Who Saved Turkish Jews'; Negative Perceptions; "The Palestine Question and Genocide"; Holocaust Denial; Hollywood and Films Dealing with the Holocaust; The American Media and Holocaust; Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Antisemitism and the Politics of Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK and ItalyIntroduction; Survivors, Perpetrators, Bystanders; Universalism and Particularism; Responses from Muslim Organisations; Criticising Holocaust Memorial Day; On Holocaust Memorial Day; Rearticulating Antisemitism; References; ' Hamas, Hamas, All Jews to the Gas.' The History and Significance of an Antisemitic Slogan in the Netherlands, 1945-2010; Introduction; Globalisation of the Israeli-Palestinian Con fl ict; Antisemitism in the Netherlands After the Liberation; Secondary Antisemitism
    Description / Table of Contents: Philosemitism, Anti-Antisemitism and Red (Jews) NosesFootball Hooliganism; Jews as Nazis; New Dutch and the Shoah; Conclusion; References; Perceptions of the Holocaust Among Young Muslims in Berlin, Paris and London; Introduction; Shared Basic Knowledge of the Holocaust; Sources of Knowledge; Doubts, Denial and Conspiracies About the Holocaust; Comparing the Holocaust to Other Atrocities; Equating the Sufferings of Palestinians with the Holocaust; The Topos of Jews Taking Revenge for the Holocaust with the Palestinians
    Description / Table of Contents: Analogies Between the Holocaust and the War in Iraq and Equations of the US-President with HitlerAnalogies Between the Holocaust and Persecution of Muslims; Explicitly Rejecting Antisemitic Equations; The Holocaust and the Creation of the State of Israel; German Guilt and Compensation Payments; Moral Judgements and Emotional Reactions to the Holocaust; Condemnations of the Holocaust; Condemning the Holocaust with Restrictions: Accusations of Exploitation and Emotional Distance; Empathy; Approval of the Holocaust and Common Ground with Nazis; Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: History and Memory of the Other: An Experimental Encounter-Programme with Israeli Jews and Palestinians from Israel 1
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction, J. Allouche-Benayoun, G. Jikeli -- History aside?- Juliane Wetzel: Antisemitism and Holocaust Remembrance, G. Bensoussan -- Participation of European Muslim Organisations in Holocaust Commemorations, M. Whine -- The Evolution of Arab Perceptions of the Holocaust, E. Webman -- Perceptions of the Holocaust in Turkey, R.N. Bali -- Anti-Semitism and the Politics of Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK and Italy, P. Spencer, S.V. di Palma -- ‘Hamas, Hamas, all Jews to the Gas.’ The History and Significance of an Antisemitic Slogan in the Netherlands, 1945-2010, E. Gans -- Perceptions of the Holocaust among young Muslims in Berlin, Paris and London, G. Jikeli -- History and Memory of the Other: An Experimental Encounter-Program with Israeli Jews and Palestinians from Israel, M. Eckmann -- Speach Acts. Observing Antisemitism and Holocaust Education in the Netherlandsm R. Ensel, A. Stremmelaar -- Challenges and Opportunities of Educational Concepts concerning National Socialist Crimes in German Immigration Society, M. Can, K. Georg and R. Hatlapa.
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    ISBN: 9789400748606
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 351 p. 135 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: This edited volume of papers from the twenty first International Conference on Chemical Education attests to our rapidly changing understanding of the chemistry itself as well as to the potentially enormous material changes in how it might be taught in the future. Covering the full range of appropriate topics, the book features work exploring themes as various as e-learning and innovations in instruction, and micro-scale lab chemistry. In sum, the 29 articles published in these pages focus the reader’s attention on ways to raise the quality of chemistry teaching and learning, promoting the public understanding of chemistry, deploying innovative technology in pedagogy practice and research, and the value of chemistry as a tool for highlighting sustainability issues in the global community.Thus the ambitious dual aim achieved in these pages is on the one hand to foster improvements in the leaching and communication of chemistry-whether to students or the public, and secondly to promote advances in our broader understanding of the subject that will have positive knock-on effects on the world’s citizens and environment. In doing so, the book addresses (as did the conference) the neglect suffered in the chemistry classroom by issues connected to globalization, even as it outlines ways to bring the subject alive in the classroom through the use of innovative technologies.
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Globalization and chemical education -- pt. 2. Learning and conceptual change in chemistry -- pt. 3. Teaching chemistry -- pt. 4. Curriculum and assessment in chemistry education -- pt. 5. E-learning and innovative instruction -- pt. 6. Microscale lab chemistry.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface:  Proceedings of 21st ICCE, Peter Mahaffy -- Introduction to the book, Mei-Hung Chiu, Hsiao-Lin Tuan, Hsin-Kai Wu, Jing-Wen Lin, Chin-Cheng Chou -- Section 1. Globalization and Chemical Education, Mei-Hung Chiu -- Dissemination of achievements in chemical education (research) via EU projects, Anna Kolasa, Iwona Maciejowska -- 2.    Polish Education Reform and Resulting Changes in the Process of Chemical Education, Hanna Gulińska -- Section 2. Learning and Conceptual Change in Chemistry, Jing-Wen Lin -- Assessment of Chemistry Anxiety among College Students, Chen Chong Sheau Huey -- Teacher-Student Interactions: The Roles of in-Class Written Questions, Liliana Mammino -- Probing and Fostering Students’ Reasoning Abilities with a Cyclic Predict-Observe-Explain Strategy, Jia-Lin Chang, Chiing-Chang Chen, Chia-Hsing Tsai, Yong-Chang Chen, Meng-Hsun Chou, Ling-Chuan Chang -- A Trial of Placement and Embodiment of Images for Chemical Concepts in the Lesson Model of “Surface Active Agent” through SEIC, Haruo Ogawa, Hiroki Fujii -- Section 3. Teaching Chemistry, Hsiao-Lin Tuan -- Chemistry pre-service teachers’ mental models of science teaching and learning in Malaysia, Maryam Sulaiman, Zurida Haji Ismail -- Chemistry Teachers Enhance their Knowledge in Contemporary Scientific Areas, Rachel Mamlok-Naaman, Ron Blonder, Avi Hofstein -- Practical Science Activities in Primary Schools in Malaysia, Norita Mohamed, Mashita Abdullah, Zurida Hj Ismail -- Teaching Chemistry Effectively with Engineering Majors: Teaching Beyond the Textbook, Yermesha Kyle; Stephen Bacon; Amber Park; Jameka Griffin; Raicherylon Cummins; Raymond Hooks, Bailu Qian, Hua-Jun Fan -- Problem-Based Learning as an Approach to Teach Cell Potential in Matriculation College, Malaysia, Kai-Li Teh, Nooraida Yakob -- Teaching Catalysis by Means of Enzymes and Microorganisms, Peter Grunwald -- The Application of the SATL in Biochemistry, Suzana B. Golemi -- Section 4. Curriculum, Evaluation, and Assessment in Chemistry Education, Mei-Hung Chiu -- An Alignment Analysis of Junior High School Chemistry Curriculum Standards and City-Wide Exit Exams in China, Hongjia Ma, Gavin W. Fulmer, Ling L. Liang, Xian Chen, Xinlu Li, Yuan Li -- A National Survey of Students’ Conceptions and Their Sources of Chemistry in Taiwan: Examples of Chemical Equilibrium and Acids/Bases, Jing-Wen Lin, Mei-Hung Chiu -- The use of electronic media for chemical education research, Francis Burns, David Frank -- Investigation of Tertiary Chemistry Learning Environment in Sabah, Malaysia, Yoon-Fah Laya, Chwee-Hoon Khoob -- The Evaluation of Chemistry Competence for Freshmen at Technology Colleges in Taiwan, Ji-Chyuan Yang, Ching-Yun Hsu, Wen-Jyh Wang, Chia-Hui Tai, Hong-Hsin Huang, Ping-Chih Huang -- Changes in Teachers’ Views of Cognitive Apprenticeship for Situated Learning in Developing a Chemistry Laboratory Course, Hui-Jung Chen, Mei-Hung Chiu -- Section 5. E-learning and Innovative Instruction, Hsin-Kai Wu -- Application of Mind Map and MindManager to Improve Students’ Competence in Solving Chemistry Problems, Zhen Lu, Zheng Zou, Yitian Zhang -- An Integrated-ICT Assessment for College Students’ Performances of Chemical Learning, King-Dow Su -- Academic Performance and Attitude Toward Computer-Aided Instruction in Chemistry, Ronaldo C. Reyes -- Integrating Instant Response System (IRS) as an In-Class Assessment Tool into Undergraduate Chemistry Learning Experience: Student Perceptions and Performance, Tzy-Ling Chen, Yan-Fu Lin,Yi-Lin Liu,Hsiu-Ping Yueh, Horn-Jiunn Sheen, Wei-Jane Lin -- Section 6. Microscale Lab Chemistry, Chin-Cheng Chou -- Aqueous cationic and anionic surfactants for microscale experiments in organic chemistry teaching laboratories, Masayuki Inoue, Yuko Kato, Emi Joguchi, Wataru Banba -- Development of Analytical Method of Gaseous Mixture by Using a Syringe, Takashi Yasuoka -- Microscale Experiments Using a Low-Cost Conductance Meter, Jose H. Bergantin, Jr., Djohn Reb T. Cleofe, Fortunato Sevilla III -- Introducing Microscale Experimentation in Volumetric Analysis for Pre-Service Teachers, Mashita Abdullah, Norita Mohamed, Zurida Hj Ismail -- Innovative Techniques in Micro-scale Chemistry Experiments, Kwok Man Chan -- Microscale Experiment on Decreases in Volume when Forming Binary Liquid Mixtures: Four Alkanol Aqueous Solutions, Tetsuo Nakagawa..
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    ISBN: 9789400750678 , 1299198147 , 9781299198142
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 179 p. 4 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 296
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. The structural links between ecology, evolution and ethics
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Evolution (Biology) ; History ; Congresses ; Ecology ; History ; Congresses ; Environmental ethics ; Congresses ; Konferenzschrift 2005 ; Ökologie ; Evolution ; Ethik ; Bioethik ; Ökologie ; Evolutionsbiologie
    Abstract: Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities. In reality, there are both structural and historical links between these disciplines. First, some topics are obviously common across the board. Second, the emerging need for environmental policy management has gradually but radically changed the relationship between these disciplines. Over the last decades in particular, there has emerged a need for an interconnecting meta-paradigm that integrates more strictly evolutionary studies, biodiversity studies and the ethical frameworks that are most appropriate for allowing a lasting co-evolution between natural and social systems. Today such a need is more than a mere luxury, it is an epistemological and practical necessity.In short, the authors of this volume address some of the foundational themes that interconnect evolutionary studies, ecology and ethics. Here they have chosen to analyze a topic using one of these specific disciplines as a kind of epistemological platform with specific links to topics from one or both of the remaining disciplines
    Description / Table of Contents: The Structural Linksbetween Ecology, Evolution and Ethics; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Ecology, Evolution, Ethics: In Search of a Meta-paradigm - An Introduction; 1.1 Some Landmarks of an Interweaved History of Ecology, Evolution and Ethics; 1.2 Looking for an Epistemic and Practical Meta-paradigm: The Transactional Framework; 1.3 Evolution between Ethics and Creationism; 1.4 Chance and Time between Evolution and Ecology; 1.5 Ethics between Ecology and Evolution; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Evolution Versus Creation: A Sibling Rivalry?
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1 Before The Origin2.2 Charles Darwin; 2.3 The Darwinian Evangelist; 2.4 The Twenty-first Century; References; Chapter 3: Evolution and Chance; 3.1 Three Meanings of the Concept of Chance; 3.1.1 Luck; 3.1.2 Random Events; 3.1.3 Contingency with Respect to a Theoretical System; 3.2 Modalities of Chance in the Biology of Evolution; 3.2.1 Mutation; 3.2.2 Random Genetic Drift; 3.2.3 Genetic Revolution; 3.2.4 The Ecosystem Level; 3.2.5 The Macroevolutionary Level (Paleobiology); 3.2.6 Other Cases; 3.3 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Some Conceptions of Time in Ecology
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.1 Scales of Time4.2 The Chronological Issue; 4.3 Crop Rotation; 4.4 Succession and Equilibrium; 4.5 Irreversibility and Unpredictability; 4.6 Persistence and Anticipation; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Facts, Values, and Analogies: A Darwinian Approach to Environmental Choice; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Naturalism: The Method of Experience; 5.3 An Empirical Hypothesis; 5.4 Scaling and Environmental Problem Formulation; 5.5 Darwin and Environmental Ethics; Note; References; Chapter 6: Towards EcoEvoEthics; 6.1 An Equilibrium World and the Ecosystem Paradigm
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.2 Protection of Nature: The Path to Ecology6.3 Ecocentrism, the Ethical Counterpart of the Ecosystem Paradigm; 6.4 Ecology Meets Evolution: The Co-change Paradigm; 6.5 An Eco-evolutionary Ethics Is Needed; 6.6 Uniqueness, Diversity, and Evolutionary Values; 6.7 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Ecology and Moral Ontology; 7.1 The Superorganism Paradigm in Ecology; 7.2 The Ecosystem Paradigm in Ecology; 7.3 The Rise and Fall of Ecosystems as Superorganisms; 7.4 Organisms as Superecosystems; 7.5 Classical and Recent Expressions of the Organism as Superecosystem Concept
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.6 From a Modern to a Post-modern Moral Ontology7.7 Post-modern Ecological Moral Ontology: Toward an Erotic Ethic; References; Chapter 8: Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics; 8.1 Defining Characteristics of Moral Rights; 8.1.1 ``No Trespassing´´; 8.1.2 Equality; 8.1.3 Trump; 8.1.4 Respect; 8.2 Who Has Moral Rights?; 8.2.1 Subjects-of-a-Life; 8.2.2 Animal Rights; 8.3 A Number of Environmentally-based Objections Have Been Raised Against the Rights View2; 8.3.1 The Rights View and Predator-Prey Relations; 8.3.2 The Rights View and Endangered Species; Notes; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 9: Reconciling Individualist and Deeper Environmentalist Theories? An Exploration
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    ISBN: 9789400765344
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 393 p. 74 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 30
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Computer science ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Computer science ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
    Abstract: Written by experts in the field, this volume presents a comprehensive investigation into the relationship between argumentation theory and the philosophy of mathematical practice. Argumentation theory studies reasoning and argument, and especially those aspects not addressed, or not addressed well, by formal deduction. The philosophy of mathematical practice diverges from mainstream philosophy of mathematics in the emphasis it places on what the majority of working mathematicians actually do, rather than on mathematical foundations. The book begins by first challenging the assumption that there is no role for informal logic in mathematics. Next, it details the usefulness of argumentation theory in the understanding of mathematical practice, offering an impressively diverse set of examples, covering the history of mathematics, mathematics education and, perhaps surprisingly, formal proof verification. From there, the book demonstrates that mathematics also offers a valuable testbed for argumentation theory. Coverage concludes by defending attention to mathematical argumentation as the basis for new perspectives on the philosophy of mathematics.
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionPart I. What are Mathematical Arguments? -- Chapter 1. Non-Deductive Logic in Mathematics: The Probability of Conjectures; James Franklin -- Chapter 2. Arguments, Proofs, and Dialogues; Erik C. W. Krabbe -- Chapter 3. Argumentation in Mathematics; Jesús Alcolea Banegas -- Chapter 4. Arguing Around Mathematical Proofs; Michel Dufour -- Part II. Argumentation as a Methodology for Studying Mathematical Practice -- Chapter 5. An Argumentative Approach to Ideal Elements in Mathematics; Paola Cantù -- Chapter 6. How Persuaded Are You? A Typology of Responses; Matthew Inglis and Juan Pablo Mejía-Ramos -- Chapter 7. Revealing Structures of Argumentations in Classroom Proving Processes; Christine Knipping and David Reid -- Chapter 8. Checking Proofs; Jesse Alama and Reinhard Kahle -- Part III. Mathematics as a Testbed for Argumentation Theory -- Chapter 9. Dividing by Zero-and Other Mathematical Fallacies; Lawrence H. Powers -- Chapter 10. Strategic Maneuvering in Mathematical Proofs; Erik C. W. Krabbe -- Chapter. 11 Analogical Arguments in Mathematics; Paul Bartha -- Chapter 12. What Philosophy of Mathematical Practice Can Teach Argumentation Theory about Diagrams and Pictures; Brendan Larvor -- Part IV. An Argumentational Turn in the Philosophy of Mathematics -- Chapter 13. Mathematics as the Art of Abstraction; Richard L. Epstein -- Chapter 14. Towards a Theory of Mathematical Argument; Ian J. Dove -- Chapter 15. Bridging the Gap Between Argumentation Theory and the Philosophy of Mathematics; Alison Pease, Alan Smaill, Simon Colton and John Lee -- Chapter 16. Mathematical Arguments and Distributed Knowledge; Patrick Allo, Jean Paul Van Bendegem and Bart Van Kerkhove -- Chapter 17. The Parallel Structure of Mathematical Reasoning; Andrew Aberdein -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9789400741683
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 312 p. 34 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Critical analysis of science textbooks
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    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Unterricht ; Effektivität
    Abstract: The critical analysis of science textbooks is vital in improving teaching and learning at all levels in the subject, and this volume sets out a range of academic perspectives on how that analysis should be done. Each chapter focuses on an aspect of science textbook appraisal, with coverage of everything from theoretical and philosophical underpinnings, methodological issues, and conceptual frameworks for critical analysis, to practical techniques for evaluation.Contributions from many of the most distinguished scholars in the field give this collection its sure-footed contemporary relevance, r
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Contributors; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: The Criteria for Evaluating the Quality of the Science Textbooks; Introduction; Textbooks in Science Teaching and Learning; The Analysis of the Science Textbooks; Teachers and Textbooks in Science Classroom; Textbooks' Quality Criteria; Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Development of the Graphical Analysis Protocol (GAP) for Eliciting the Graphical Demands of Science Textbooks; Guidelines for Evaluating the Graphics in Science Textbooks; Complex Categorization Systems: Accounting for Numerous Types
    Description / Table of Contents: Teacher-Friendly Classification SystemSimpler Classification Systems; Parts and Steps; Text-Diagram Integration; Application and Discussion; Appendix; Graphical Analysis Protocol (GAP); Working Definitions and Codes; Part I: Text (At This Point You Code at the Page Level); Part II: Graphics (Now You Code at the Individual Graphics); Part III: Integration; References; Part II: Textual and Language Analysis of Science Textbooks; Chapter 3: Understanding the Disciplines of Science: Analysing the Language of Science Textbooks; Introduction; The Study; Vocabulary Diversity
    Description / Table of Contents: Contrasting Low Diversity Chapters with High Diversity ChaptersMajor Structural Relations; Patterns of Co-occurrence; Grouping the Chapters; Contrasting Classification Systems; Associations Among the Groupings; Conclusions; References; Corpus Materials; Chapter 4: Towards a More Epistemologically Valid Image of School Science: Revealing the Textuality of School Science Textbooks; School Science and Science in the Public Field; The Concealment of Textuality of School Science Textbooks
    Description / Table of Contents: Towards a Proposal for the Disclosure of Textuality of Educational Materials for the Teaching of Natural SciencesTextual Types Revealing Textuality and Thus Enhancing Reflexivity; Dialogue; Theatrical Script (Play); The Attribution of Human Voice to Entities; The Diary; Review of the Literature; Description of Conditions Behind the Authorship of Educational Material Texts; Quotations; Figures of Speech; Irony; Paradox; Hyperbole; Rhetorical Questions; Self-Reference; Reinforcing the Modality of Formalities; Synopsis; Postscriptum; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: How Effective Is the Use of Analogies in Science Textbooks?Introduction; Potential Roles of Analogies in Promoting Meaningful Learning; Challenges and Difficulties Associated with Using Analogies in a Classroom Setting; What Does Research Tell Us About How Analogies Should Be Used?; Textbook Analogies; Research About the Effects of Textual Analogies on Learning; How Effective Is Analogy Use in Science Textbooks?; Implications for the Future Use of Analogies in Science Textbooks; Teaching-With-Analogies Model; FAR (Focus, Action, Reflection) Model; Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Textual Features and Language Demands of Primary Grade Science Textbooks: The Call for More Informational Texts in Primary Grades
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    ISBN: 9789400765375
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 762 p. 17 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences 1
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Kampourakis, Kostas The Philosophy of Biology
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Study and teaching ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: This book brings together for the first time philosophers of biology to write about some of the most central concepts and issues in their field from the perspective of biology education. The chapters of the book cover a variety of topics ranging from traditional ones, such as biological explanation, biology and religion or biology and ethics, to contemporary ones, such as genomics, systems biology or evolutionary developmental biology. Each of the 30 chapters covers the respective philosophical literature in detail and makes specific suggestions for biology education. The aim of this book is to inform biology educators, undergraduate and graduate students in biology and related fields, students in teacher training programs, and curriculum developers about the current state of discussion on the major topics in the philosophy of biology and its implications for teaching biology. In addition, the book can be valuable to philosophers of biology as an introductory text in undergraduate and graduate courses
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; Contents; Contributors; Philosophy of Biology and Biology Education: An Introduction; 1 Prolegomena: The Rationale and Aims of this Book; 2 The Science of Life; 3 The Nature of Evolutionary Theory; 4 Evolutionary Theory and Religion; 5 Evolution at the Molecular Level; 6 Evolution and Development; 7 Integrating Levels: Taking Ecology and Microbiology Seriously into Account; 8 Conceptual Obstacles to Understanding Evolution: Essentialism and Teleology; 9 "Proximate" Phenomena: Functions, Mechanisms, Information and the Systemic Approach in Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Genetics: Beyond Mendel and Genetic Determinism11 Biology and Ethics; What Is Life?; 1 Introduction; 2 Concepts and Definitions: From Philosophy to Science; 3 Limitations of Our Current Understanding of Life; 4 Searching for Alternative Forms of Life; 5 Conclusion; References; Biological Explanation; 1 Introduction; 2 Biology and Philosophical Accounts of Explanation; 3 Explanation and Scientific Practice; 4 Conclusion: Teaching About Biological Explanation; 4.1 Suggestion 1: Do Not Overly Emphasize Laws When Thinking About Biology Explanations
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2 Suggestion 2: Explicitly Motivate Forms of Explanation That Are Common in Biology4.3 Suggestion 3: Resist the Temptation to Simplify the Diversity of Approaches in Biology and Their Apparent Incompatibility; 4.4 Suggestion 4: Explicitly Consider the Role of Models-Partial, Unrealistic Representation; 4.5 Suggestion 5: Emphasize Methodological Differences Over Seemingly Ideological Differences; Teach That a Plurality of Approaches Is Here to Stay; References; What Would Natural Laws in the Life Sciences Be?; 1 Introduction; 2 Laws of Nature: The Standard Picture
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 The Problem of Exceptions4 The Problem of Accidentalness; 5 Evolutionary Accidents as Laws of Certain Fields of Biology; 6 Conclusion; References; The Nature of Evolutionary Biology: At the Borderlands Between Historical and Experimental Science; 1 On the Scientific Status of Evolutionary Theory; 2 The Fisher-Wright Debates and the Importance of Stochastic Events in Evolution; 3 Gould and the Project for a Nomothetic Evolutionary Biology; 4 The Modern Study of Chance vs. Necessity; 5 The Philosophical Context: Cleland's Analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Conclusion: Chance and Necessity Within the Extended SynthesisReferences; Evolutionary Theory and the Epistemology of Science; 1 Introduction; 2 Epistemological Background; 2.1 The Traditional Account of Knowledge; 2.2 Evidence and Knowledge; 3 Objections to Evolutionary Theory; 3.1 Evolution Is a Mere Theory; 3.2 Evolution Is not Falsifiable; 3.3 Evolution Makes no Predictions; 3.4 Evolution Has Been Falsified; 4 The Evidence for Evolution; 5 Conclusions; References; Conceptual Change and the Rhetoric of Evolutionary Theory: 'Force Talk' as a Case Study and Challenge for Science Pedagogy
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Conceptual Schemes and Darwin's Interacting Metaphors
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; Michael Ruse -- Philosophy of Biology and Biology Education: An Introduction; Kostas Kampourakis -- What is life?; Carol Cleland and Michael Zerella -- Biological Explanation; Angela Potochnik -- What would Natural Laws in the Life Sciences be?;  Marc Lange -- The Nature of Evolutionary Biology: at the borderlands between Historical and Experimental Science; Massimo Pigliucci -- Evolutionary Theory and the Epistemology of Science; Kevin McCain & Brad Weslake -- Conceptual Change and the Rhetoric of Evolutionary Theory: ‘Force Talk’ as a case study and Challenge for Science Pedagogy; David Depew -- Debating the Power and Scope of Adaptation; Patrick Forber -- Biology and Religion: The Case for Evolution, Francisco Ayala -- The Implications of Evolutionary Biology for Religious Belief; Denis Alexander -- Intelligent Design and the Nature of Science: Philosophical and Pedagogical Points, Ingo Brigandt -- Molecular Evolution, Michael Dietrich -- Educational Lessons from Evolutionary Properties of the Sexual Genome; John Avise -- Non-genetic Inheritance and Evolution; Tobias Uller -- Homology, Alessandro Minelli & Giuseppe Fusco -- Teaching Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Concepts, Problems and Controversy; Alan Love -- Philosophical Issues in Ecology, James Justus -- Small Things, Big Consequences: Microbiological Perspectives on Biology; Michael J. Duncan, Pierrick Bourrat, Jennifer DeBerardinis, & Maureen O’ Malley -- Essentialism in Biology; John Wilkins -- Biological Teleology: the Need for History; James Lennox & Kostas Kampourakis -- Biology's Functional Perspective: Roles, Advantages and Organization; Arno Wouters -- Understanding Biological Mechanisms: Using Illustrations from Circadian Rhythm Research; William Bechtel -- Information in the Biological Sciences; Alfredo Marcos and Robert Arp -- Systems Biology and Education; Pierre Alain Braillard -- Putting Mendel in His Place: How Curriculum Reform in Genetics and Counterfactual History of Science Can Work Together; Annie Jamieson & Gregory Radick -- Against “Genes For”: Could an Inclusive Concept of Genetic Material Effectively Replace Gene Concepts?; Richard Burian & Kostas Kampourakis -- Current Thinking about Nature and Nurture, David Moore -- Genomics and Society: Why “Discovery” Matters; Lisa Gannett -- Philosophical Issues in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research; Andrew Siegel -- Ethics in Biomedical Research and Practice; Anya Plutynski -- Environmental Ethics; Roberta Millstein.
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    ISBN: 9789400777620
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 431 p. 42 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology 15
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Science Study and teaching ; Engineering ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Science Study and teaching ; Engineering
    Abstract: Building on the breakthrough text Philosophy and Engineering: An Emerging Agenda, this book offers 30 chapters covering conceptual and substantive developments in the philosophy of engineering, along with a series of critical reflections by engineering practitioners. The volume demonstrates how reflective engineering can contribute to a better understanding of engineering identity and explores how integrating engineering and philosophy could lead to innovation in engineering methods, design and education. The volume is divided into reflections on practice, principles and process, each of which challenges prevalent assumptions and commitments within engineering and philosophy. The volume explores the ontological and epistemological dimensions of engineering and exposes the falsity of the commonly held belief that the field is simply the application of science knowledge to problem solving. Above all, the perspectives collected here demonstrate the value of a constructive dialogue between engineering and philosophy and show how collaboration between the disciplines casts light on longstanding problems from both sides. The chapters in this volume are from a diverse and international body of authors, including philosophers and engineers, and represent a highly select group of papers originally presented in three different conferences. These are the 2008 Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering (WPE-2008) held at the Royal Academy of Engineering; the 2009 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT-2009) at the University of Twente in the Netherlands; and the Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology (fPET-2010), held in Golden, Colorado at the Colorado School of Mines
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; Preface; Contents; Part I Reflections on Practice; Chapter 1: The Ignorance of Engineers and How They Know It; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Knowledge and Ignorance; 1.3 Ignorance as Knowledge of the Fundamental Limits of Knowledge; 1.4 Ignorance as Knowledge of a Problem to Be Solved; 1.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Rules of Skill: Ethics in Engineering; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Nature of Rules; 2.3 Following the Rules; 2.4 How Ethics Enters; 2.5 Creating Rules of Skill; 2.6 Summary; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3: Engineering as Performance: An "Experiential Gestalt" for Understanding Engineering3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Engineering Practice: A Dichotomous View; 3.3 Performance: "An Essentially Contested Concept"; 3.4 Engineering as Performance and Communication; 3.5 Engineering as Performance: An Experiential Gestalt; References; Chapter 4: The Formulation of Engineering Identities: Storytelling as Philosophical Inquiry; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Conceptualizing Identity; 4.2.1 Self-categorization; 4.2.2 Limitations of Identity Theory
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3 Narratives Representing a Process of Philosophical Reasoning in the Formulation of Identities4.4 Formulating an Engineering Identity: Adopting the 'Master Narrative'; 4.5 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: Ove Arup: Theoretical and Moral Positions in Practice and the Origins of an Engineering Firm; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Considering Philosophical Positions; 5.3 Ove Arup and the Firm; 5.4 Technology and Morality; 5.5 The Structure of the Building Industry; 5.5.1 The Architect-Engineer Divide; 5.5.2 Divisions Between Briefing, Designing and Construction
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.5.3 Specialization and the Limits to Knowledge5.6 Total Design; 5.6.1 The Total Design Ideal; 5.6.2 Total Design in Practice; Implications for the Firm; 5.7 Aims and Means; 5.8 Conclusions; References; Chapter 6: Transferable Skills Development in Engineering Students: Analysis of Service-­Learning Impact; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Motivation; 6.3 Background; 6.3.1 Course Development; 6.3.2 CE134-Engineering Design Mentoring; 6.3.3 CE 175-Senior Capstone Design; 6.4 Methodology; 6.5 Results; 6.6 Discussion; 6.7 Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7: Future Reflective Practitioners: The Contributions of Philosophy7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Introducing Philosophy at Politecnico di Milano; 7.3 Philosophical Topics in Computer Engineering; 7.3.1 Critical History of Scientific Ideas; 7.3.2 Philosophy of Mind; 7.3.3 Philosophy of Science; 7.3.4 Philosophy of Technology; 7.3.5 Philosophy of Engineering; 7.3.6 Ethics; 7.4 Conclusions; References; Chapter 8: Fitting Engineering into Philosophy; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Origins of the Topic; 8.3 Common Sense and Feed-Back Loops; 8.4 Philosophical Issues
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.5 Some Speculations on How Engineering Got Left Out of Philosophy and the Possible Death of Philosophy
    Description / Table of Contents: PrefaceForeword: An Exchange with Carl Mitcham -- Part I: Reflections on Practice. Chapter 1. The Ignorance of Engineers and How They Know It; Hans Poser -- Chapter 2. Rules of Skill: Ethics in Engineering; Wade L. Robison -- Chapter 3. Engineering as Performance: An “Experiential Gestalt” for the Understanding of Engineering; Rick Evans -- Chapter 4. The Formulation of Engineering Identities: Storytelling as Philosophical Inquiry; Russell Korte -- Chapter 5. Ove Arup: Theoretical and Moral Positions in Action and the Origins of an Engineering Firm; Andrew Chilvers and Sarah Bell -- Chapter 6. Transferable Skills Development in Engineering Students: Analysis of Service-Learning Impact; Donna M. Rizzo, Mandar M. Dewoolkar, and Nancy J. Hayden -- Chapter 7. Future Reflective Practitioners: The Contributions of Philosophy; Viola Schiaffionati -- Chapter 8. Fitting Engineering into Philosophy; Joseph C. Pitt -- Chapter 9. Engineering as Willing; Jon Alan Schmidt -- Part II: Reflections on Principles -- Chapter 10. Debunking Contemporary Myths Concerning Engineering; Billy Vaughn Koen -- Chapter 11. The Engineer’s Identity Crisis: Homo Faber or Homo Sapiens?; Priyan Dias -- Chapter 12. Varieties of Parthood: Ontology learns from Engineering; Peter Simons -- Chapter 13. Engineered Artifacts; Byron Newberry -- Chapter 14. Engineering Ethics: From Preventive Ethics to Aspirational Ethics; Charles E. Harris, Jr. -- Chapter 15. Making the Case for the Inclusion of Lay Persons on Engineering Accreditation Panels: A Role for an Engineering Hippocratic Oath?; William Grimson and Mike Murphy -- Chapter 16. Ethical Awareness in Chinese Professional Engineering Organizations: Textual Research on Constitutions of Chinese Engineering Societies; CAO Nanyan, SU Junbin, HU Mingyan -- Chapter 17. Engineering for Peace: An Obligation of Professional Capabilities; W. Richard Bowen -- Chapter 18. Roboethics and Telerobotic Weapons Systems; John P. Sullins -- Chapter 19. Normative Crossover: The Ethos of Socio-Technological Systems; Rune Nydal -- Part III: Reflections on Process -- Chapter 20. Translating Values into Design Requirements; Ibo van de Poel -- Chapter 21. Engineering Hubris: Adam Smith and the Quest for the Perfect Machine; Scott Forschler -- Chapter 22. The Technology of Collective Memory and the Normativity of Truth; Kieron O’Hara -- Chapter 23. Plans for Modeling Rational Acceptance of Technology; Wybo Houkes and Auke J.K. Pols -- Chapter 24. On the Epistemology of Breakthrough Innovation: The Orthogonal and Non-Linear Natures of Discovery; Bruce A. Vojak and Raymond L. Price -- Chapter 25. Uncertainty in the Design of Non-Prototypical Engineered Systems; William M. Bulleit -- Chapter 26. Object-Oriented Method and the Relationship between Structure and Function of Technical Artifacts; PAN Enrong -- Chapter 27. The Methodological Ladder of Industrialized Inventions: A Descriptive-Based and Explanation-Enhanced Prescriptive Model; M. H. Abolkheir -- Chapter 28. On the Feasibility of Nanotechnology: A Chinese Perspective; WANG Guoyu -- Chapter 29. Engineering Innovation: Energy, Policy, and the Role of Engineering; Zachary Pirtle -- Chapter 30. Is Engineering Philosophically Weak?; David E. Goldberg.
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    ISBN: 9789400743458
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 338 p. 9 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 282
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. The mechanization of natural philosophy
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Science ; Philosophy ; History ; 16th century ; Science ; Philosophy ; History ; 17th century ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturphilosophie ; Mechanismus ; Ideengeschichte 1550-1720
    Abstract: The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy .Drawing the border between the old Aristotelianism and the « new » mechanical philosophy faces historians with a delicate task, if not an impossible mission. There were many natural philosophers who actually crossed the border between the two worlds, and, inside each of these worlds, there was a vast spectrum of doctrines, arguments and intellectual practices. The expression mechanical philosophy is burdened with ambiguities. It may refer to at least three different enterprises: a description of nature in mathematical terms; the comparison of natural phenomena to existing or imaginary machines; the use in natural philosophy of mechanical analogies, i.e. analogies conceived in terms of matter and motion alone.However mechanical philosophy is defined, its ambition was greater than its real successes. There were few mathematisations of phenomena. The machines of mechanical philosophers were not only imaginary, but had little to do with the machines of mecanicians. In most of the natural sciences, analogies in terms of matter and motion alone failed to provide satisfactory accounts of phenomena.By the same authors: Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 254).
    Description / Table of Contents: The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The Construction of Historical Categories; Chapter 1: Remarks on the Pre-history of the Mechanical Philosophy; 1.1 What Was the Mechanical Philosophy?; 1.2 The Mechanical Philosophy Before Boyle; 1.3 Bacon; 1.4 Galileo; 1.5 Mersenne; 1.6 Descartes/Gassendi/Hobbes: Mechanical Philosophers?; 1.7 Novatores, Latitudinarians, and the Construction of the Mechanical Philosophy; 1.8 A Broader Conception of Mechanism?; Chapter 2: How Bacon Became Baconian
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1 The Meaning of Mechanical Operation in Bacon's Oeuvre2.2 Mechanical and Vital Readings of Bacon's Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century England; 2.3 Conclusion; Chapter 3: An Empire Divided: French Natural Philosophy (1670-1690); 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 A Debate on Natural Philosophy; 3.3 On the Side of the New Philosophers; 3.3.1 The Methodology of Ontology: Beings Should Not Be Multiplied Without Necessity; 3.3.2 The Way of Physics: Physics Should Explain Phenomena, Namely, Give Efficient Causes; 3.3.3 Ontological Categories: The Bipartition Between Body and Soul Should Be Respected
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3.4 The Social Twist3.4 On the Side of the Old Philosophers; 3.4.1 The Methodology of Ontology: The Multiplication of Corpuscles and the Missing Metaphysical Supplement; 3.4.2 The Way of Physics: One Should Not Indulge in Hypotheses, Ignore Experiments and Use Empty Words; 3.4.3 The Ontological Categories and the Controversy Over Animal Souls; 3.4.4 Another Social Twist; 3.5 Conclusions; Part II: Matter, Motion, Physics and Mathematics; Chapter 4: Matter and Form in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Some Case Studies; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Corpuscular Theories of the Physician d'Olesa
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.1 Elements, Minima and Qualities4.2.2 The Problem of Mixture; 4.2.3 A Corpuscular Theory of Light and Vision; 4.3 The Absence of a Tradition; 4.3.1 The Hypothesis of Menéndez Pelayo; 4.3.2 The Salamacan Physician Gomez Pereira; 4.3.3 The Salamacan Physician Francisco Valles; 4.4 Conclusion; Chapter 5: The Composition of Space, Time and Matter According to Isaac Newton and John Keill; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Isomorphism of Space, Time and Matter in Early Modern Natural Philosophy; 5.3 The Evolution of Newton's Views on the Composition of Space, Time and Matter
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.4 The Isomorphism of Space, Time and Matter According to John Keill5.5 Conclusion; Chapter 6: Beeckman, Descartes and Physico-Mathematics; 6.1 Beeckman; 6.1.1 Persistence of Motion; 6.1.2 Persistence of the Form of a Motion; 6.1.3 Conservation in the Exchange of Motion; 6.1.4 Isoperimetric Figures; 6.2 Descartes; 6.2.1 Persistence of Motion; 6.2.2 Communication of Motion; 6.2.3 Persistence and Direction; 6.3 Physico-Mathematics; Chapter 7: Between Mathematics and Experimental Philosophy: Hydrostatics in Scotland About 1700; 7.1 Between Mathematics and Experimental Philosophy
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.2 The Mathematical Hydrostatics of Wallis, Gregorie, and Newton
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    ISBN: 9789400753518 , 1283936070 , 9781283936071
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 315 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 298
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Agassi, Joseph, 1927 - 2023 The very idea of modern science
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science ; Europe ; History ; 16th century ; Science ; Europe ; History ; 17th century ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Citizen Science ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Citizen Science
    Abstract: This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science. It describes the ideology of the amateur scientific societies as the philosophy of the Enlightenment Movement and their social structure and the way they made modern science such a magnificent institution. It also shows what was missing in the scientific organization of science and why it gave way to professional science in stages. In particular the book studies the contributions of Sir Francis Bacon and of the Hon. Robert Boyle to the rise of modern science. The philosophy of induction is notoriously problematic, yet its great asset is that it expressed the view of the Enlightenment Movement about science. This explains the ambivalence that we still exhibit towards Sir Francis Bacon whose radicalism and vision of pure and applied science still a major aspect of the fabric of society. Finally, the book discusses Boyle’s philosophy, his agreement with and dissent from Bacon and the way he single-handedly trained a crowd of poorly educated English aristocrats and rendered them into an army of able amateur researchers.​
    Description / Table of Contents: The Very Idea of ModernScience; Abstract; Preface; Acknowledgement; Contents; Part I: Bacons Doctrine of Prejudice (A Study in a Renaissance Religion); Introductory Note; Chapter 1: The Riddle of Bacon; 1.1 The Problem of Methodology; 1.2 The Criticism of Bacon's Writings; 1.3 The Past Suggested Solutions; Chapter 2: Bacon's Philosophy of Discovery; 2.1 Bacon's Utopianism; 2.2 Bacon's Metaphysics; 2.3 Bacon's Induction; 2.4 Bacon's Inductive Machine; Chapter 3: Ellis' Major Difficulty; Chapter 4: The Function of the Doctrine of Prejudice; 4.1 Radicalism; 4.2 Radicalism Invented
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3 Radical MethodologyChapter 5: Bacon on the Origin of Error and Prejudice; Chapter 6: Prejudices of the Senses; 6.1 The Problem of Observation; 6.2 Prejudices of the Senses; 6.3 Bacon's Theory of Discovery; 6.4 Whewell's Theory of Discovery; 6.5 Popper's Theory of Discovery; 6.6 Bacon's "Mark" of Science; Chapter 7: Prejudices of Opinions; 7.1 Suspension of Judgment; 7.2 What Is a Prejudice?; 7.3 Bacon and the Logical Empiricists; 7.4 Bacon's Double Game; 7.5 The Origin of Scientific Theories; 7.6 Science and Imagination; Chapter 8: Bacon's Influence; 8.1 Influence on Immediate Posterity
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.2 Permission to Propose a Hypothesis and to Assert Metaphysics8.3 Permission De Jure and de Facto; 8.4 Legitimation Versus Criticism; 8.5 Bacon's Influence; Chapter 9: Conclusion : The Rise of the Riddle of Bacon; Part II: The Religion of Inductivism as a Living Force; Quasi-Terminological Notes; "The Inductive Style"; "Speculation" and "Hypothesis"; "Hypothesis" and "Fact"; On the Recent Literature; Homage to Robert Boyle; Chapter 10: Philosophical Background; 10.1 Inductivism Classical and Modern; 10.2 Metaphysical Views, Classical and Modern; 10.3 The Doctrine of Prejudice
    Description / Table of Contents: 10.4 The Moral Code of the Fraternity10.5 Conclusion; Chapter 11: The Social Background of Classical Science; 11.1 Researchers as Amateurs; 11.2 Researchers as Experts; 11.3 Researchers as Inventors; 11.4 Researchers as Dilettantes; Chapter 12: The Missing Link Between Bacon and the Royal Society; 12.1 The Rise of the Royal Society; 12.2 Boyle's Spirit; 12.3 Boyle's Views on the Spread of Science; Chapter 13: Boyle in the Eyes of Posterity; 13.1 The Eighteenth Century; 13.2 Herschel's Unfair Comment; 13.3 Who Discovered Boyle's Law?; 13.4 Modern Views on Boyle; 13.5 Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 14: The Inductive Style14.1 The Discussion of Style; 14.2 The Inductive Style Versus the Argumentative Style; 14.3 Reporting on Experiments and Writing Systems; 14.4 Boyle on some Systems; 14.5 Thinking and Experimenting; 14.6 The Inductive Style; 14.7 Encyclopedia of Facts or a Just History of Nature; 14.8 Boyle's Promiscuous Experiments; 14.9 Boyle on Attempts to Create some Theories; 14.10 Methodological Tolerance; 14.11 The Usefulness of Hypotheses; 14.12 Civilized Argument; 14.13 Boyle on the Method of Quoting; 14.14 Circumstantial Descriptions A: The Problem
    Description / Table of Contents: 14.15 Circumstantial Descriptions B: Recent Solutions
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgement -- PART I: BACONS DOCTRINE OF PREJUDICE -- (A study in a Renaissance Religion) Introductory Note -- I The Riddle of Bacon -- (1)  The Problem of Methodology -- (2)    II Bacon’s Philosophy of Discovery -- III Ellis’ Major Difficulty -- IV The Function of the Doctrine of Prejudice -- V Bacon on the origin of error and prejudice -- VI Prejudices of the Senses -- VII Prejudices of Opinions -- VIII Bacon’s Influence -- IX Conclusion: The rise of the commonwealth of learning -- PART II: A RELIGION OF INDUCTIVISM AS A LIVING FORCE -- A Quasi-Terminological Note -- On the recent literature -- Homage to Robert Boyle -- I Background Material -- II The social background of classical science -- III The Missing Link between Bacon and the Royal Society of London -- IV Boyle in the Eyes of Posterity -- V The Inductive Style -- VI Mechanism -- VII The new doctrine of prejudice -- Appendices. ​.
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    ISBN: 9789400753570 , 1283936097 , 9781283936095
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 215 p. 23 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 362
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Bayesian argumentation
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Computer simulation ; Applied linguistics ; Social sciences Methodology ; Applied psychology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Computer simulation ; Applied linguistics ; Social sciences Methodology ; Applied psychology ; Reasoning (Psychology) ; Congresses ; Logic ; Congresses ; Thought and thinking ; Congresses ; Probabilities ; Congresses ; Bayesian statistical decision theory ; Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Argumentationstheorie ; Bayes-Entscheidungstheorie
    Abstract: Relevant to, and drawing from, a range of disciplines, the chapters in this collection show the diversity, and applicability, of research in Bayesian argumentation. Together, they form a challenge to philosophers versed in both the use and criticism of Bayesian models who have largely overlooked their potential in argumentation. Selected from contributions to a multidisciplinary workshop on the topic held in Lund, Sweden, in autumn 2010, the authors count legal scholars and cognitive scientists among their number, in addition to philosophers. They analyze material that includes real-life court cases, experimental research results, and the insights gained from computer models.The volume provides a formal measure of subjective argument strength and argument force, robust enough to allow advocates of opposing sides of an argument to agree on the relative strengths of their supporting reasoning. With papers from leading figures such as Mike Oaksford and Ulrike Hahn, the book comprises recent research conducted at the frontiers of Bayesian argumentation and provides a multitude of examples in which these formal tools can be applied to informal argument. It signals new and impending developments in philosophy, which has seen Bayesian models deployed in formal epistemology and philosophy of science, but has yet to explore the full potential of Bayesian models as a framework in argumentation. In doing so, this revealing anthology looks destined to become a standard teaching text in years to come.
    Description / Table of Contents: Bayesian Argumentation; Foreword; Contents; Bayesian Argumentation: The Practical Side of Probability; 1 Introduction; 2 The Bayesian Approach to Argumentation; 3 Chapter Overview; 3.1 The Bayesian Approach to Argumentation; 3.2 The Legal Domain; 3.3 Modeling Rational Agents; 3.4 Theoretical Issues; References; Part I: The Bayesian Approach to Argumentation; Testimony and Argument: A Bayesian Perspective; 1 Introduction; 2 Testimony, Argumentation and the `Third Way´; 3 Some Problems for MAXMIN; 4 A Bayesian Perspective; 5 Message Content and Message Source: Exploring Norms and Intuitions
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Rehousing Argumentation Schemes Within a Bayesian Framework7 Concluding Remarks; References; Why Are We Convinced by the Ad Hominem Argument?: Bayesian Source Reliability and Pragma-Dialectical Discussion Rules; 1 Types of the Argumentum Ad Hominem; 2 The Pragma-Dialectical Approach; 3 The Bayesian Approach; 4 An Experiment on the Argument Ad Hominem; 5 Method; 6 Results and Discussion; 7 Conclusion; Appendix: Experimental Materials; Abusive; Circumstantial; Tu Quoque; Control; References; 1 Introduction; 2 Survey of Relevant Uncertainties; Part II: The Legal Domain
    Description / Table of Contents: A Survey of Uncertainties and Their Consequences in Probabilistic Legal Argumentation2.1 The Example Case; 2.2 Factual Uncertainty; 2.3 Normative Uncertainty; 2.4 Moral Uncertainty; 2.5 Empirical Uncertainty; 2.6 Interdependencies; 3 Desirable Attributes for a Probabilistic Argument Model to Assist Litigation Planning; 3.1 Assessment of Utilities; 3.2 Easy Knowledge Engineering; 3.3 Conflict Resolution and Argument Weights; 4 Sample Assessment of Graphical Models; 4.1 A Graphical Structure of the Analysis; 4.2 Casting the Example into a Graphical Model; 4.3 Generic Bayesian Networks
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Carneades5.1 A Brief Introduction to the Carneades Model; 5.2 Carneades Bayesian Networks; 5.3 Carneades Bayesian Networks with Probabilistic Assumptions; 5.4 Introduction to Argument Weights; 6 Extension of Carneades to Support Probabilistic Argument Weights; 7 Desiderata for Future Developments; 7.1 Weights Subject to Argumentation; 7.2 Inform Weights from Values; 8 Conclusions and Future Work; References; Was It Wrong to Use Statistics in R v Clark? A Case Study of the Use of Statistical Evidence in Criminal Courts; 1 Introduction; 2 Factual Background; 3 Existing Explanations
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.1 The Flaws in Meadow´s Calculation3.2 The Psychological Effect of the Statistical Evidence; 3.3 The Prosecutor´s Fallacy; 3.4 Bayes´ Theorem; 3.5 The Insignificance of the SIDS Statistics; 4 The Contrastive Explanation; 5 Conclusion; References; Part III: Modeling Rational Agents; A Bayesian Simulation Model of Group Deliberation and Polarization; 1 Introduction; 2 The Laputa Simulation Framework; 3 The Underlying Bayesian Model; 4 Interpreting Laputa; 5 Do Bayesian Inquirers Polarize?; 6 Conclusion and Discussion; Appendix; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Degrees of Justification, Bayes´ Rule, and Rationality
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Frank Zenker.​- Part 1 -- The Bayesian Approach to Argumentation -- Chapter 1. Testimony and Argument: A Bayesian Perspective: Ulrike Hahn, Mike Oaksford and Adam J.L. Harris -- Chapter 2. Why are we convinced by the Ad Hominem Argument?: Source Reliability or Pragma-Dialectics: Mike Oaksford and Ulrike Hahn.- Part 2. The Legal Domain.-Chapter 3. A survey of uncertainties and their consequences in Probabilistic Legal Argumentation: Matthias Grabmair and Kevin D. Ashley -- Chapter 4. What went wrong in the case of Sally Clark? A case-study of the use of Statistical Evidence in Court: Amid Pundik -- Part 3. Modeling Rational Agents -- Chapter 5. A Bayesian Simulation Model of Group Deliberation: Erik J. Olsson -- Chapter 6. Degrees of Justification, Bayes' Rule, and Rationality: Gregor Betz -- Chapter 7. Argumentation with (Bounded) Rational Agents: Robert van Rooij and Kris de Jaeghery -- Part 4. Theoretical Issues -- Chapter 8. Reductio, Coherence, and the Myth of Epistemic Circularity: Tomoji Shogenji -- Chapter 9. On Argument Strength: Niki Pfeiffer -- Chapter 10 -- Upping the Stakes and the Preface Paradox: Jonny Blamey -- References.​.
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    ISBN: 9789400766686
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 376 p. 34 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Educational tests and measurements ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: Assessment is a fundamental issue in research in science education, in curriculum development and implementation in science education as well as in science teaching and learning.This book takes a broad and deep view of research involving assessment in science education, across contexts and cultures (from whole countries to individual classrooms) and across forms and purposes (from assessment in the service of student learning to policy implications of system wide assessment). It examines the relationships between assessment, measurement and evaluation; explores assessment philosophies and prac
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Valuing Assessment in Science Education: An Introductory Framework; Reference; Chapter 2: International Assessments of Science Learning: Their Positive and Negative Contributions to Science Education; Introduction; Insider and Outsider Perspectives; Overview; The Science Learning to Assess; IEA/Science Assessment Intentions; OECD/PISA Science Assessment Intentions; Levels of Science Learning; Assessment of Affect About Science; The Approach to Assessment; The Mode of Assessment; Unexpected Findings; Contextualised Assessment
    Description / Table of Contents: The Presentation and Discussion of Comparative FindingsDifferences Between Groups; Assessment Profiles; Influence on National Science Education; Contribution as Research; Stimuli for Further Research; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: International, National and Classroom Assessment: Potent Factors in Shaping What Counts in School Science; Introduction; International Assessments and What Counts in School Science; Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS); Grade 4 TIMSS Achievement in New Zealand; Grade 8 TIMSS Achievement in New Zealand
    Description / Table of Contents: Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)New Zealand Achievement in PISA; National Assessment Programmes and What Counts in School Science; National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP); Assessment Resource Banks (ARBs); Broader Assessment Policies; National Certificate in Educational Achievement (NCEA); Assessment for Learning and What Counts in School Science; So What Does Count in School Science?; References; Chapter 4: Improving Science Education: Why Assessment Matters; The Purposes of Assessment in Education; What Do We Want, Do We Really Really Want?
    Description / Table of Contents: Assessment and Curriculum SpecificationThe Role of Assessment in Science Curriculum Development; The Role of Assessment in Science Education Research; Not Perfect, Just Good Enough; References; Chapter 5: Towards an Authentically Assessed Science Curriculum; Introduction; Principles of Assessment; The Nature of Curriculum; An Example of Senior Chemistry; The Case of Science as Experimental Inquiry; Assessment in Contemporary Science Curricula; Variety of Modes of Assessment and a Profile of Achievement; The Effect of High-Stakes Assessment
    Description / Table of Contents: Towards Authentically Assessed Achievement in Science EducationContext-Based Science Education; Historical Background; Research, Practice and Assessment; Decision-Making Processes and Socioscientific Issues; Integrated Science Education; Implications for Teachers of an Authentically Assessed Curriculum; Appendix 1: Extended Response Task for Context-Based Assessment; Vehicular Motion; Introduction; Part A: Knowledge and Conceptual Understanding; Task 1a. Explanation of Concepts Associated with Vehicular Motion; Task 1b. Scenario
    Description / Table of Contents: Task 2. Explanation of Concepts Associated with Vehicular Motion
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    ISBN: 9789400776906
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 326 p. 7 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 31
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Cartesian empiricisms
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Descartes, René 1596-1650 ; Rezeption
    Abstract: Cartesian Empiricisms considers the role Cartesians played in the acceptance of experiment in natural philosophy during the seventeenth century. It aims to correct a partial image of Cartesian philosophers as paradigmatic system builders who failed to meet challenges posed by the new science’s innovative methods. Studies in this volume argue that far from being strangers to experiment, many Cartesians used and integrated it into their natural philosophies. Chapter 1 reviews the historiographies of early modern philosophy, science, and Cartesianism and their recent critiques. The first part of the volume explores various Cartesian contexts of experiment: the impact of French condemnations of Cartesian philosophy in the second half of the seventeenth century; the relation between Cartesian natural philosophy and the Parisian academies of the 1660s; the complex interplay between Cartesianism and Newtonianism in the Dutch Republic; the Cartesian influence on medical teaching at the University of Duisburg; and the challenges chemistry posed to the Cartesian theory of matter. The second part of the volume examines the work of particular Cartesians, such as Henricus Regius, Robert Desgabets, Jacques Rohault, Burchard de Volder, Antoine Le Grand, and Balthasar Bekker. Together these studies counter scientific revolution narratives that take rationalism and empiricism to be two mutually exclusive epistemological and methodological paradigms. The volume is thus a helpful instrument for anyone interested both in the histories of early modern philosophy and science, as well as for scholars interested in new evaluations of the historiographical tools that framed our traditional narratives
    Description / Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations List -- List Of Contributors -- Table of Contents.- 1. Introduction; Mihnea Dobre and Tammy Nyden.- Part I: Cartesian Natural Philosophy: Receptions and Context.- 2. Censorship, Condemnations, and the Spread of Cartesianism; Roger Ariew.- 3. Was there a Cartesian Experimentalism in 1660’s France?; Sophie Roux.- 4. Dutch Cartesian Empiricism and the Advent of Newtonianism; Wiep van Bunge.- 5. Heat, Action, Perception: Models of Living Beings in German Medical Cartesianism; Justin Smith.- 6. Could a Practicing Chemical Philosopher be a Cartesian?; Bernard Joly.- Part II: Cartesian Natural Philosophers.- 7. Empiricism Without Metaphysics: Regius’ Cartesian Natural Philosophy; Delphine Bellis.- 8. Robert Desgabets on the Physics and Metaphysics of Blood Transfusion; Patricia Easton.- 9. Rohault’s Cartesian Physics; Mihnea Dobre.- 10. De Volder’s Cartesian Physics and Experimental Pedagogy; Tammy Nyden.- 11. The Cartesian Psychology of Antoine Le Grande; Gary Hatfield.- 12. Mechanical Philosophy in an Enchanted World: Cartesian Empiricism in Balthasar Bekker’s Radical Reformation; Koen Vermeir.- Bio-Bibliographical Appendix for Cartesians Discussed in Part II.- Index.
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    ISBN: 9789400772960
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 500 p. 33 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Studies in Early Modern Religious Tradition, Culture and Society 6
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Bale, John John Bale's "The Image of Both Churches"
    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy ; History ; Regional planning ; Religion (General) ; Humanities / Arts ; Humanities ; Philosophy ; History ; Regional planning ; Religion (General) ; Bibel Offenbarung des Johannes ; Frühneuenglisch ; Geschichte 1545
    Abstract: This book is a critical edition of John Bale's The Image of Both Churches (c. 1545). The Introduction provides a thorough overview of this sixteenth century work, explaining its relationship to the apocalyptic tradition and to Bale's important inspirations, from Augustine to Erasmus and Luther. Topics such as Bale's language, the place of the Image in his oeuvre, his use of medieval chronicles, and the influence of his exegesis are also discussed. The Image has often been called Bale's most important work; it articulated and developed the English Protestant view of the Apocalypse, influencing other Reformers both in England and on the continent. This book offers the first critical edition of the Image, including fully modernized spelling and punctuation as well as extensive explanatory notes. The five sixteenth-century printed editions of the Image are collated here, with textual notes that illustrate the relationship between variant readings and provide information on the choices made in this particular edition. This book also reproduces the striking woodcut illustrations from the Image in their original placements; examples from two different woodcut series are offered, as well as an overview of the history and importance of these images in the early printed texts. Five appendices, including a glossary of unfamiliar terms and a chart outlining Bale's periodization of history, also provide a wealth of information that enables readers to understand and use this edition. The largest appendix, on historical names and terminology, gives biographical information for 450 individuals and explains their importance, both to Bale and to the sixteenth-century Reformers in a broader context. This critical edition of the Image offers the most thorough study of the work to date, opening up the opportunity for a deeper understanding of this monumental text and for many further avenues of research
    Description / Table of Contents: AcknowledgementsIntroduction -- The two churches model -- Paraphrase or commentary?- Princely power and the elect nation -- Apocalyptic exegesis and history.-The place of the Image in Bale’s oeuvre -- Bale’s language -- Dating and publication -- The woodcuts -- The influence of the Image -- Note on the text -- The Image of both Churches -- A preface unto the Christian reader -- Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Appendix 1: Bibliography and abbreviations -- Appendix 2: Glossary of words and phrases -- Appendix 3: Names, terms, and historical events -- Appendix 4: Periods of history and symbols in the Image.-Appendix 5: Marginal references.
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    ISBN: 9789400749511
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 259 p. 1 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy
    Abstract: This book is a radical reappraisal of the importance of Aristotelianism in Britain. Using a full range of manuscripts as well as printed sources, it provides an entirely new interpretation of the impact of the early-modern Aristotelian tradition upon the rise of British Empiricism, and reexamines the fundamental shift from a humanist logic to epistemology and facultative logic. The task is to reconstruct the philosophical background and framework in which the thought of philosophers such Locke, Berkeley and Hume originated: some aspects of their empiricism can be explained only in reference to the academic Aristotelian tradition, even if these authors established themselves as anti-scholastic, anti-Aristotelian philosophers outside the official institutions.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction -- 2 Logic in the British Isles during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 3 Logic in the Universities of the British Isles -- 4 Zabarella’s Empiricism 5 Early Aristotelianism between Humanism and Ramism -- the British School 7 Continental Aristotelians in the British Isles -- 8 The Empiricism of the Seventeenth-Century Aristotelianism -- 9. The Reformers of Aristotelian Logic -- 10 Late Seventeenth-Century Aristotelianism -- 11 Conclusion -- Bibliography.-Index ​.
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    ISBN: 9789400754850
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 332 p. 15 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 273
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. The Berlin Group and the philosophy of logical empiricism
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Dubislav, Walter, 1895- ; Oppenheim, Paul, 1885- ; Grelling, Kurt ; Fries, Jakob Friedrich, 1773-1843 ; Science ; Philosophy ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Reichenbach, Hans 1891-1953 ; Neopositivismus ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie
    Abstract: The Berlin Group for scientific philosophy was active between 1928 and 1933 and was closely related to the Vienna Circle. In 1930, the leaders of the two Groups, Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap, launched the journal Erkenntnis. However, between the Berlin Group and the Vienna Circle, there was not only close relatedness but also significant difference. Above all, while the Berlin Group explored philosophical problems of the actual practice of science, the Vienna Circle, closely following Wittgenstein, was more interested in problems of the language of science. The book includes first discussion ever (in three chapters) on Walter Dubislav’s logic and philosophy. Two chapters are devoted to another author scarcely explored in English, Kurt Grelling, and another one to Paul Oppenheim who became an important figure in the philosophy of science in the USA in the 1940s-1960s. Finally, the book discusses the precursor of the Nord-German tradition of scientific philosophy, Jacob Friedrich Fries
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Milkov, Peckhaus.- Part I. Introductory Chapters -- Part II. Historical-Theoretical Context -- Part III. Hans Reichenbach -- Part IV. Walter Dubislav -- Part V. Kurt Grelling and  Alexander Herzberg -- Part VI. Carl Hempel und Paul Oppenheim.
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    ISBN: 9789400743045
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 297 p. 17 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Explorations of Educational Purpose 23
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    Keywords: Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: Learning in informal settings is attracting growing attention from policymakers and researchers, yet there remains, at the moment, a dearth of literature on the topic. Thus this volume, which examines how science and mathematics are experienced in everyday and out-of-school-time (OST) settings, makes an important contribution to the field of the learning sciences. Conducting research on OST learning requires us to broaden and deepen our conceptions of learning as well as to better identify the unique and common qualities of different learning settings. We must also find better ways to analyze the interplay between OST and school-based learning. In this volume, scholars develop theoretical structures that are useful not only for understanding learning processes, but also for helping to create and support new opportunities for learning, whether they are in or out of school, or bridging a range of settings. The chapters in this volume include studies of everyday and situated processes that facilitate science and mathematics learning. They also feature new theoretical and empirical frameworks for studying learning pathways that span both in- and out-of-school time and settings. Contributors also examine structured OST programs in which everyday and situated modes of learning are leveraged in support of more disciplined practices and conceptions of science and mathematics. Fortifying much of this work is a leading focus on educational equitya desire to foster more socially supportive and intellectually engaging science and mathematics learning opportunities for youth from historically non-dominant communities. Full of compelling examples and revealing analysis, this book is a vital addition to the literature on a subject with a fast-rising profile.
    Description / Table of Contents: LOST Opportunities; Preface; A New Way of Looking; This Volume; Thank Yous; References; Contents; Part I: What Counts as Math and Science?; Chapter 1: Introduction: What Counts as Math and Science?; References; Chapter 2: Math I Am: What We Learn from Stories That People Tell About Math in Their Lives; Introduction; Methods; The Interviews; (Mathematical) Identity and Narrative; Home and Mathematics; "What Is Mathematics?" in the Family; Diverse Kinds of Mathematics; Mathematics at Home Stories Are Social; Getting It Done Instead of Getting the Right Answer; Mathematics as Part of Fun
    Description / Table of Contents: How Mathematics in the Family Relates to the Question of "Who Am I?"Being Personally Responsible; Being Socially Responsible; Being a Family Together; Home and Mathematics Identity; School and Mathematics; "What Is Mathematics?" at School; Generalizing About Experiences with School Mathematics; Mathematics as Speci fi c Problems, Teachers, and Grades; Mathematics for Mathematics' Sake; How Mathematics at School Relates to the Question of "Who Am I?"; School and Mathematics Identity; Design Implications of the MIAM Stories; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3: What Counts as Science in Everyday and Family Interactions?Introduction; Examples of Science-Relevant Activities in Everyday Life; Conversations About Sea Creatures at an Aquarium; Testing Predictions at a Car Track Museum Exhibit; Conversations About Temperature and Melting in a Storybook-Reading Activity; Conversations About Sun Safety at a Community Health Fair; Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: What Counts as Mathematics When "We All Use Math Every Day"? A Look at NUMB3RS; Mathematics in Movies and Television; NUMB3RS; The Mathematics of NUMB3RS; Methods: Word Counts
    Description / Table of Contents: We All Use Math Every Day: Who Is "We"?We All Use Math Every Day: What Is "Math"?; Methods: Audience Response Study; Who Does Mathematics in NUMB3RS ?; How Do Viewers Decide Something Counts as Mathematics?; Learning in Out-of-School Time: Mathematics and Media; Appendix; References; Chapter 5: What Counts Too Much and Too Little as Math; Stupid Gerry; What Counts as Math Times Two; Math and "Our Language"; Architect A and Architect B; Math Is Distributed and Expressed in Diverse Forms in Everyday Life; Mathematics In-Not-As the Activity; Dumb Ted; Where Do We Go from Here?; Coda; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: When Is Mathematics, and Who Says So?: A Commentary on Part IReferences; Part II: Understanding How and Why People Learn Across Settings as an Educational Equity Strategy; Chapter 7: Introduction: Understanding How and Why People Learn Across Settings as an Educational Equity Strategy; References; Chapter 8: Creating Within and Across Life Spaces: The Role of a Computer Clubhouse in a Child's Learning Ecology; Introduction; Theoretical Goals and Methodological Strategies; Luis's Learning Pathways; Getting Started at the Clubhouse
    Description / Table of Contents: Movie-Making Process: Idea Generation, Feedback, and Revision
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    ISBN: 9789400744677 , 1283612291 , 9781283612296
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 378 p. 9 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Cultural Studies of Science Education 5
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Moving the equity agenda forward
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    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bildungspolitik ; Chancengleichheit
    Abstract: This volume takes on the vital tasks of celebrating, challenging, and attempting to move forward our understanding of equity and diversity in science education. Organized thematically, the book explores five key areas of science education equity research: science education policy; globalization; context and culture; discourse, language and identity; and leadership and social networking. Chapter authors -- emerging to established US science education scholars -- present their latest research on how to make science interesting and accessible to all students. The volume includes international voices as well: Scholars from around the world crafted responses to each section. Together, authors and respondents attempt to refine our methods for examining equity issues across classrooms, schools, and policies, and deepen our understanding of ways to promote equity and acknowledge diversity in science classrooms. Moving the Equity Agenda Forward is endorsed by NARST: A Worldwide Organization for Improving Science Teaching and Learning Through Research. The volume gains authority from the fact that it was edited by one current and four former chairs of NARSTs Equity and Ethics Committee.
    Description / Table of Contents: Moving the Equity Agenda Forward; Introduction to Volume; Contents; Part I: Introduction: Science Education Policy; Reference; Chapter 1: Science for All: Historical Perspectives on Policy for Science Education Reform; Introduction; Science for All Before 1960; Practical Studies and Vocational Education; The Comprehensive High School and Aptitude Testing as Democratizing Influences; World War II and the Search for Science Talent; The Sputnik Challenge; From the 1960s to the Present: The Era of Civil Rights; A Call for Excellence and Common Culture; The Economic Argument
    Description / Table of Contents: No Child Left Behind (NCLB)Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Is It Possible to Teach "Science for All" in a Climate of Accountability? Educational Policy and the Equitable Teaching of Science; Nonmainstream Students, NCLB, and Science Education Reform; Influence of NCLB on the Science Learning of Nonmainstream Students; Possible Reasons for Continued Gaps; Structure of NCLB Policy; Instructional Decisions Focused on Short-Term Assessment Gains; Negative Consequences for Science Teachers; Structure of NCLB Assessments; Understanding the Paradox: Negative Consequences of NCLB
    Description / Table of Contents: Comments on MethodologyImplications for Science Education Research, Practice, and Policy; References; Chapter 3: Conceptions of Inequality in the Era of Bush/Obama; Conceptions of Inequality in Standards-Based Reform; 1990s Conceptions of Standards-Based Reform; Influence of Standards-Based Reform in Contemporary Initiatives; Conceptions of Inequality in Market-Based Reform; Conceptions of Inequality as Epistemological; What These Lens Enable and Constrain in Our Scholarship; What Is the "So What" for New Scholars Interested in Equality and Diversity?; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 4: International Response for Part I: Bridging the Gaps Between Policy and Practice on Equity for Science Education ReformsQuestion 1: What Are the Major Trends of the Policies on Equity in Science Education?; Question 2: How Do These Chapters Address Similar Issues that Might Be Encountered by International Scholars and School Science Teachers?; Question 3: What Issues or Actions Need to Be Considered to Achieve Equity?; Importance of Teacher Preparation in Educational Reform; Necessity of Conducting Policy-Related Research to Provide Evidence of Effectiveness of Policies
    Description / Table of Contents: Essential Actions Taken for Communication Between Researchers and PolicymakersConcluding Remarks; References; Part II: Introduction: Globalization; References; Chapter 5: The Imperative of Context in the Age of Globalization in Creating Equity in Science Education; Overview; Contextual Factors of Globalization; Holons; Globalization; Positive Effects of Globalization; Mitigating Forces; The Economics of Education and Society; The Notions of Capital and Habitus; Role and Function of Education and Schooling; Revisiting the Imperative of Context; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Frameworks for Examining the Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender on English Language Learners in K-12 Science Education in the USA
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    ISBN: 9789400748637 , 1283698080 , 9781283698085
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 214 p. 12 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Patrick, Patricia G. Zoo talk
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    Abstract: Founded on the premise that zoos are 'bilingual'--that the zoo, in the shape of its staff and exhibits, and its visitors speak distinct languages--this enlightening analysis of the informal learning that occurs in zoos examines the 'speech' of exhibits and staff as well as the discourse of visitors beginning in the earliest years. Using real-life conversations among visitors as a basis for discussion, the authors interrogate children's responses to the exhibits and by doing so develop an 'informal learning model' and a 'zoo knowledge model' that prompts suggestions for activities that classroom educators can use before, during, and after a zoo visit. Their analysis of the 'visitor voice' informs creative suggestions for how to enhance the educational experiences of young patrons. By assessing visitors' entry knowledge and their interpretations of the exhibits, the authors establish a baseline for zoos that helps them to refine their communication with visitors, for example in expanding knowledge of issues concerning biodiversity and biological conservation. The book includes practical advice for zoo and classroom educators about positive ways to prepare for zoo visits, engaging activities during visits, and follow-up work that maximizes the pedagogical benefits. It also reflects on the interplay between the developing role of zoos as facilitators of learning, and the ways in which zoos help visitors assimilate the knowledge on offer. In addition to being essential reading for educators in zoos and in the classroom, this volume is full of insights with much broader contextual relevance for getting the most out of museum visits and field trips in general
    Abstract: Founded on the premise that zoos are bilingualthat the zoo, in the shape of its staff and exhibits, and its visitors speak distinct languagesthis enlightening analysis of the informal learning that occurs in zoos examines the speech of exhibits and staff as well as the discourse of visitors beginning in the earliest years. Using real-life conversations among visitors as a basis for discussion, the authors interrogate childrens responses to the exhibits and by doing so develop an informal learning model and a zoo knowledge model that prompts suggestions for activities that classroom educators can use before, during, and after a zoo visit.Their analysis of the visitor voice informs creative suggestions for how to enhance the educational experiences of young patrons. By assessing visitors entry knowledge and their interpretations of the exhibits, the authors establish a baseline for zoos that helps them to refine their communication with visitors, for example in expanding knowledge of issues concerning biodiversity and biological conservation. The book includes practical advice for zoo and classroom educators about positive ways to prepare for zoo visits, engaging activities during visits, and follow-up work that maximizes the pedagogical benefits. It also reflects on the interplay between the developing role of zoos as facilitators of learning, and the ways in which zoos help visitors assimilate the knowledge on offer. In addition to being essential reading for educators in zoos and in the classroom, this volume is full of insights with much broader contextual relevance for getting the most out of museum visits and field trips in general.
    Description / Table of Contents: Zoo Talk; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Chapter 2: A History of Animal Collections; The Beginning of Menageries and Zoos; Zoos in the United States of America; The Evolution of Zoo Design; Zoo Education; The Zoo Voice Today; References; Chapter 3: Rationale for the Existence of Zoos; Education; Conservation; Recreation or Entertainment; Facilities; Research; Culture and Society; The Future; References; Chapter 4: Visitors' Knowledge of Zoos; The Zoo Visitor and Their Reasons for Visiting the Zoo; The Visitor's Perceptions of Nature; The Importance of Mental Models
    Description / Table of Contents: Understandings People Have of ZoosReferences; Chapter 5: Exhibit Design; Exhibits; Labels; Animals as Exhibits and Topics of Conversation; Experiential Space in Exhibits; References; Chapter 6: Talking About Animals; Taxonomy and the Term Animal; Identifying Animals; Animal Behavior and Anatomy; Attitudes, Emotional Connections, and Culture; References; Chapter 7: Visitor Voice; Form, Function, and Categories of Conversations; Discourse in the Exhibit; Using Grounded Theory to Analyze Conversations; Understanding Terminology; References; Chapter 8: School and Family Groups' Conversations
    Description / Table of Contents: Family GroupsSchool Groups; Talking Science; References; Chapter 9: The Zoo Voice: Zoo Education and Learning; Why Visit Zoos?; Prior Knowledge and Learning; Zoo Education; References; Chapter 10: Information Educators Need to Know About Zoo Field Trips (Useful Field Trip Information); Analyzing Discourse; Exhibit Learning Cycle; Increasing Communication During the Interpretation Stage; More Ideas; Nature Tables; Physical Science and Hands-On Activities Pre-visit; Patterns of Animal Anatomy; Hands-On Activities Pre-visit; Zoo Kits; DNA Fingerprinting; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 11: Zoo Field Trip DesignRationale for Visiting the Zoo: Animals; Rationale for Visiting the Zoo: Educational; Learning During a Zoo Field Trip; Characteristics of Successful Field Trips; Cognitive: Pre-visit Activities; Cognitive: During-Visit Activities; Cognitive: Post-visit Activities; Suggested Activities; Procedural: Facility Staff; Procedural: Advanced Organizers; Social: Student Groups; Social: Control of Visit and Learning; Teacher Training and Chaperone Preparation; References; Chapter 12: Conclusions; Index;
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    ISBN: 9789400748071
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 313 p. 30 illus., 5 illus. in color, digital)
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 208
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Science in the age of Baroque
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturwissenschaften ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1600-1700
    Abstract: This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period. The collected essays explore themes common to the new practices of knowledge production and the rapidly changing culture surrounding them, as well as the obsessions, anxieties and aspirations they share, such as the foundations of order, the power and peril of mediation and the conflation of the natural and the artificial. The essays also take on the historiographical issues involved: the characterization of culture in general and culture of knowledge in particular; the use of generalizations like ‘Baroque’ and the status of such categories; and the role of these in untangling the historical complexities of the tumultuous 17th century. The canonical protagonists of the ‘Scientific Revolution’ are considered, and so are some obscure and suppressed figures: Galileo side by side with Scheiner;Torricelli together with Kircher; Newton as well as Scilla. The coupling of Baroque and Science defies both the still-triumphalist historiographies of the Scientific Revolution and the slight embarrassment that the Baroque represents for most cultural-national histories of Western Europe. It signals a methodological interest in tensions and dilemmas rather than self-affirming narratives of success and failure, and provides an opportunity for reflective critique of our historical categories which is valuable in its own right.
    Description / Table of Contents: Science in the Age of Baroque; Contents; Chapter 1: Baroque Modes and the Production of Knowledge; Introduction: The Great Opposition; The Papers 2 : Shades of Baroque; Conclusion: Dilemmas and Anxieties; Notes; References; Part I: Order; Chapter 2: What Was the Relation of Baroque Culture to the Trajectory of Early Modern Natural Philosophy?; Introduction: Thinking About "Baroque Science"; Constructing the Category of Natural Philosophy-Natural Philosophising as Culture and Process
    Description / Table of Contents: Phases and Stages in the 'Scientific Revolution' Seen as an Unfolding Process in the Field of Natural PhilosophisingThe Dynamics and Rules of Natural Philosophical Contestation During the 'Crisis Within a Crisis' Phase; Articulation on Subordinate Disciplines: Grammar and Specific Utterance; Find or Steal Discoveries, Novelties or Facts, Including Experimental Ones; Bend or Brake Aristotle's Rules About Mathematics and Natural Philosophy: The Gambit of 'Physico-mathematics'; "Hot Spots" of Articulation Contest: Additional Causes and Effects of a Field in Crisis
    Description / Table of Contents: The Mechanics of Responding to 'Outside' Challenges and OpportunitiesRecruitment of Baroque Behaviours, Norms and Identities?; An Additional, Surprising, Conjectural Finding; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: "Bent and Directed Towards Him": A Stylistic Analysis of Kircher's Sunflower Clock; Kircher's Sunflower Clock Reassessed; The Baroque Style; The Problem of Style; The Baroque Problem; A Stylistic Analysis; Clocks; Magnetism; Sunflowers; A Baroque Instrument; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: From Divine Order to Human Approximation: Mathematics in Baroque Science; Kepler and Newton
    Description / Table of Contents: Kepler and PerfectionNewton and the Moving Aphelia; Kepler's ISL; The ISL After Kepler; Newton's ISL; Conclusion; References; Part II: Vision; Chapter 5: "The Quality of Nothing:" Shakespearean Mirrors and Kepler's Visual Economy of Science; Introduction; Shakespearean Mirrors and the End of Renaissance Science; Kepler's Astronomical Speculations, Aristotelian Metabasis and Renaissance Imagination; Keplerian Shadows on a Wall; Towards Baroque Modes of Observation; References; Chapter 6: Agostino Scilla: A Baroque Painter in Pursuit of Science; Introduction; The Making of a Learned Painter
    Description / Table of Contents: From Messina to RomeThe Genesis of a Scientific Conversation; Seeing Fossils Like a Painter; References; Chapter 7: What Exactly Was Torricelli's "Barometer?"; Introduction; "Torricelli's Barometer:" The Extant Sources; Rethinking Torricelli's Esperienza of 1644; Torricelli's Mercury Esperienza as Baroque Performance; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: William Harvey and the Way of the Artisan; Introduction; Harvey's Way of Inquiry; The Problem of Inquiry; The Priority of Experience; The Way of the Artisan; The Particular; Apprenticeship and Experience; Artisans and Trust
    Description / Table of Contents: William Harvey and the Way of the Artisan
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Ofer Gal and Raz Chen Morris: Baroque Modes and the Production of Knowledge -- A. Order -- 2. John Schuster: What Was the Relation of Baroque Culture to the Trajectory of Early Modern Natural Philosophy? -- 3. Koen Vermeir: “Bent And Directed Towards Him:” A Baroque Perspective on Kircher’s Sunflower Clock -- 4. Ofer Gal: From Divine Order to Human Approximation: Mathematics in Baroque Science -- B. Vision -- 5. Raz Chen-Morris: “The Quality of Nothing,” Or Kepler's Visual Economy of Science -- 6. Paula Findlen: Agostino Scilla:  A Baroque Painter in Pursuit of Science -- 7. J.B. Shank: What Exactly Was “Torricelli’s Barometer?” -- 8. Alan Salter: William Harvey and the Way of the Artisan -- C. Excess -- 9. John Gascoigne: Crossing the Pillars of Hercules: Francis Bacon, the Scientific Revolution and the New World -- 10. Nicholas Dew: The Hive and the Pendulum: Universal Metrology and Baroque Science.-11. Victor Boantza: Chymical Philosophy and Boyle’s Incongruous Philosophical Chymistry.-12 Rivka Feldhay: The Simulation of Nature and the Dissimulation of the Law on a Baroque Stage: Galileo and the Church Revisited​.
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    ISBN: 9789400751378
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 161 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 31
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Chemistry ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Chemistry ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic
    Abstract: This compelling reevaluation of the relationship between logic and knowledge affirms the key role that the notion of judgement must play in such a review. The commentary repatriates the concept of judgement in the discussion, banished in recent times by the logical positivism of Wittgenstein, Hilbert and Schlick, and the Platonism of Bolzano. The volume commences with the insights of Swedish philosopher Per Martin-Löf, the father of constructive type theory, for whom logic is a demonstrative science in which judgement is a settled feature of the landscape. His paper opens the first of four sections that examine, in turn, historical philosophical assessments of judgement and reason; their place in early modern philosophy; the notion of judgement and logical theory in Wolff, Kant and Neo-Kantians like Windelband; their development in the Husserlian phenomenological paradigm; and the work of Bolzano, Russell and Frege. The papers, whose authors include Per Martin-Löf, Göran Sundholm, Michael Della Rocca and Robin Rollinger, represent a finely judged editorial selection highlighting work on philosophers exercised by the question of whether or not an epistemic notion of judgement has a role to play in logic. The volume will be of profound interest to students and academicians for its application of historical developments in philosophy to the solution of vexatious contemporary issues in the foundation of logic. ​
    Description / Table of Contents: Judgement and the Epistemic Foundation of Logic; Preface; Contents; Introduction; Bibliography; Part I: Constructivism, Judgement and Reason; Chapter 1: Verificationism Then and Now; Chapter 2: Demonstrations Versus Proofs, Being an Afterword to Constructions, Proofs, and the Meaning of the Logical Constants; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Containment and Variation; Two Strands in the Development of Analyticity from Aristotle to Martin-Löf; Bibliography; Part II: Judgement and Reason in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter 4: Descartes' Theory of Judgement: Warranted Assertions, the Key to Science*
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Descartes' Debate with Scholastic Logic over the Foundations of Science2 The Rules for the Forming of True Judgements; 3 The Many Uses of the Concept of Judgement in Descartes' Mathesis; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Striving, Oomph, and Intelligibility in Spinoza; 1 Descartes and the Great Intelligibility Trade-Off; 2 Strengthening Intelligibility; 3 Weakening Intelligibility; Bibliography; I. Works by Descartes; II. Works by Spinoza; III. Works by Leibniz; IV. Works by Hume; V. Other Works; Part III: Kant, Neo-Kantianism, and Bolzano
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: The Role of Wolff's Analysis of Judgements in Kant's Inaugural Dissertation1 Wolff's Analysis of Judgements; 2 Meier's Notion of Condition; 3 The Strategy of Kant's Dissertation; 4 Three Classes of Subreption; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Windelband on Beurteilung; 1 Windelband's Definition of Judgement; 2 Windelband's Three-Step Argument; 3 Judgeable Content; 4 Assessing Under Assumption of Epistemic Values; 5 The Nature of Epistemic Assessment; Bibliography; I. Primary; II. Secondary; Chapter 8: A Priori Knowledge in Bolzano, Conceptual Truths, and Judgements
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 The Apriori in Bolzano1.1 Concepts and Conceptual Truths; 1.2 Conceptual Truths and Judgements A Priori; 1.2.1 Conceptual Truths and Analytic Truths; 1.2.2 Empirical Analytic Truths; 1.2.3 Synthetic Conceptual Truths; 1.3 How Are Synthetic Judgements A Priori Possible?; 2 Understanding (C1): Bolzano's Epistemology; 2.1 Judgements and Subjective Representations; 2.2 Bolzano's Analysis of the Concept of Knowledge; 2.2.1 Confidence; 2.2.2 How Much Confidence?; 3 Understanding (C2): Knowing a Concept; 3.1 The Correspondence Assumption; 3.2 Having a Representation, Clarity, and Distinctness
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 Definitions, Proofs, and Synthetic Truths4.1 Knowledge and Proof; 4.2 Two Remaining Problems; 4.3 The Case of Fundamental Truths; 5 Conclusion; Bibliography; Part IV: Husserl, Frege and Russell; Chapter 9: Immanent and Real States of Affairs in Husserl's Early Theory of Judgement: Reflections on Manuscripts from 1893/1894 and Their Background in the Logic of Brentano and Stumpf; 1 Introduction; 2 Brentano and Stumpf on Contents of Judgement; 2.1 Brentano; 2.2 Stumpf; 2.3 Excursus: Other Students of Brentano; 3 Husserl's Theory of Judgement (1893/1894)
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.1 Psychological Studies in Elementary Logic
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Part 1. Constructivism, Judgement, and Reason -- Chapter 1. Verificationism then and now: Per Martin-Löf -- Chapter 2. Demonstrations versus Proofs, being an afterword to 'Constructions, Proofs and the meaning of Logical Constants': Göran Sundholm -- Chapter 3. Containment and Variation: Two Strands in the Development of Analyticity from Aristotle to Martin-Löf: Göran Sundholm -- Part 2. Judgement and Reason in the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 4. Decartes' Theory of Judgement: Warranted Assertions, the Key to Science: Elodie Cassan -- Chapter 5. Striving, Oomph, and Intelligibility in Spinoza: Michael Della Rocca -- Part 3. Kant, Neo-Kantianism, and Bolzano -- Chapter 6. The Role of Wolff's Analysis of Judgments in Kant's Inaugural Dissertation: Johan Blok -- Chapter 7. Windelband on 'Beurteilung’: Arnaud Dewalque -- Chapter 8. A Priori Knowledge in Bolzano; Conceptual Truths and Judgements: Stefan Roski -- Part 4. Husserl, Frege and Russell -- Chapter 9. Immanent and Real States of Affairs in Husserl's Early Theory of Judgement: Robin Rollinger -- Chapter 10. Frege and Russell on Assertion: Jeremy Kelly.​.
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    ISBN: 9789400757219
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 258 p. 135 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 31
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Meskens, Ad, 1962 - Practical mathematics in a commercial metropolis
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    Keywords: Science History ; Architecture ; Science, general ; Science History ; Architecture ; Coignet, Michel, 1549-1623 ; Heyns, Peeter, 1537-1598 ; Mathematics ; Belgium ; Antwerp ; History ; 16th century ; Angewandte Mathematik ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Describes the development and the ultimate demise of the practice of mathematics in sixteenth century Antwerp. Against the background of the violent history of the Religious Wars the story of the practice of mathematics in Antwerp is told through the lives of two protagonists Michiel Coignet and Peeter Heyns. The book touches on all aspects of practical mathematics from teaching and instrument making to the practice of building fortifications of the practice of navigation.?
    Abstract: This volumedescribes the development and the ultimate demise of the practice of mathematics in sixteenth century Antwerp. Against the background of the violent history of the Religious Wars the story of the practice of mathematics in Antwerp is told through the lives of two protagonists Michiel Coignet and Peeter Heyns. The book touches on all aspects of practical mathematics from teaching and instrument making to the practice of building fortifications of the practice of navigation.​
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Preface -- 2 Introduction -- 3 The Family Coignet -- 4 Peeter Heyns and the Nymphs of the Laurel Tree -- 5 The Arithmetic Teacher and his School -- 6 The Antwerp arithmetic books -- 7 Winegauging -- 8 Instrumentmakers -- 9 The Art of Navigation -- 10 Mapping the World -- 11 Looking towards the Stars -- 12 Ballistics and fortifications -- 13 Conclusion -- Appendices -- Index.​.
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    ISBN: 9789400764408
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 329 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Advances in Mathematics Education
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Reconceptualizing early mathematics learning
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    Keywords: Curriculum planning ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Early childhood education ; Education ; Education ; Curriculum planning ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Early childhood education ; Mathematics ; Study and teaching (Elementary)
    Abstract: This book emanated primarily from concerns that the mathematical capabilities of young children continue to receive inadequate attention in both the research and instructional arenas. Research over many years has revealed that young children have sophisticated mathematical minds and a natural eagerness to engage in a range of mathematical activities. As the chapters in this book attest, current research is showing that young children are developing complex mathematical knowledge and abstract reasoning a good deal earlier than previously thought. A range of studies in prior to school and earl
    Description / Table of Contents: Reconceptualizing Early Mathematics Learning; Series Preface; Contents; Perspectives on Reconceptualizing Early Mathematics Learning; References; Early Mathematics Learning in Perspective: Eras and Forces of Change; Era of Experiential Learning (1900-1920); Influential Personages; Views of Children and the Teaching of Mathematics; Competing Views; Era of Childhood Readiness (1920-1940); Personages; Views of Children and the Teaching of Mathematics; Competing Views; Era of Cognitive Development (1940-1960); Personages; Views of Children and the Teaching of Mathematics; Competing Views
    Description / Table of Contents: Era of Socially-Scaffolded Development (1960-1980)Personages; Views of Children and the Teaching of Mathematics; Competing Views; Era of Culturally-Nested Learning (1980-2000); Personages; Views of Children and the Teaching of Mathematics; Competing Views; Emerging Era of Embodied Learning (2000-present); Conclusions; References; Early Awareness of Mathematical Pattern and Structure; Introduction; Pattern and Structure in Early Mathematical Development; Spatial Structuring; Numerical Structuring; Patterning and Data Representation; The Pattern and Structure Project
    Description / Table of Contents: Studies on Multiplicative StructureStructural Development of the Base Ten System; Awareness of Mathematical Pattern and Structure (AMPS); Examples of Structural Development; Structuring a Clock Face; Structuring Rectangular Grids; Structuring Area; Structuring a Triangular Array; Structuring Length; Structuring Data; Discussion; Conclusion; References; Reconceptualizing Early Mathematics Learning: The Fundamental Role of Pattern and Structure; Classroom-Based PASMAP Studies; Preschoolers' Patterning; An Intervention Study with Kindergarten Students; Summary of Early Research Findings
    Description / Table of Contents: The Reconceptualizing Early Mathematics Learning ProjectThe Sample; Procedure; The PASMAP Components; Assessment Interviews and Classroom Data; Results; Quantitative Outcome Analysis; Rasch Scale Analysis; Structural Outcomes Analysis; Discussion; Conclusions and Implications for Further Research and Teaching; References; Reconceptualizing Statistical Learning in the Early Years; Introduction; Data Modelling; Structuring and Representing Data; Metarepresentational and Conceptual Competence; Informal Inference: Making Predictions; The Role of Context; A Longitudinal Study of Data Modelling
    Description / Table of Contents: Activities and ProceduresData Collection and Analysis; Selection of Findings; Grade Two Children's Predictions for Baxter Brown's Picnic; Children's Questions and Representations for Planning a Picnic; Sharing Models for Planning a Picnic; Children's Conceptual and Metarepresentational Competence in Investigating and Planning Playgrounds; Discussion and Concluding Points; References; Cognitive Guidelines for the Design and Evaluation of Early Mathematics Software: The Example of MathemAntics; Introduction; Cognitive Principles for the Design of Software
    Description / Table of Contents: Engage Children in Cognitively and Mathematically Appropriate Activities
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400745636
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 379 p. 46 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Cultural Studies of Science Education 8
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Science education for diversity
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    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Religion and education ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Religion and education ; Pädagogische Soziologie
    Abstract: Reflecting the very latest theory on diversity issues in science education, including new dialogic approaches, this volume explores the subject from a range of perspectives and draws on studies from around the world. The work discusses fundamental topics such as how we conceptualize diversity as well as examining the ways in which heterogeneous cultural constructs influence the teaching and learning of science in a range of contexts. Including numerous strategies ready for adoption by interested teachers, the book addresses the varied cultural factors that influence engagement with science education. It seeks answers to the question of why increasing numbers of students fail to connect with science education in schools and looks at the more subtle impact that students’ individually constructed identities have on the teaching and learning of science. Recognizing the diversity of its audience, the book covers differing levels and science subjects, and examines material from a range of viewpoints that include pedagogy, curricula, teacher education, learning, gender, religion, and ICT, as well as those of in-service and trainee teachers at all levels
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Why Science Education for Diversity?; Introduction; What Do We Mean by Diversity?; Social and Historical Context; Cultural Diversity and Science Education; Sociocultural and Dialogic Perspectives; Tensions and Dilemmas; Argument and Structure of This Book; References; Part I: Science Education Reform for Diversity; Dialogic Science Education for Diversity; Introduction: The Science Education for Diversity Project; What Is Science?; Monologic, Dialogic and Diversity; How Do We Conceptualise Diversity?; Developing a Framework for Science Education for Diversity
    Description / Table of Contents: How Do We Make Science Education More Relevant?Will Inquiry-Based Science Education (IBSE) Help?; Explicitly Dialogic Pedagogy; Connecting to Real Science; Mastery Learning Combined with Dialogic Science Pedagogy; Teaching the Nature of Science; Teaching Thinking in Science and Through Science; The Role of ICT; The Need for Guided Collaborative Critical Reflection on Action; Summary and Conclusion; References; Expanding Notions of Scientific Literacy: A Reconceptualization of Aims of Science Education in the Knowledge Society
    Description / Table of Contents: The "Two Cultures" and the Need for a Broader Notion of Scientific LiteracyScientific Literacy Reconceptualized; Science Engagement Curriculum Policy Images; Science and the Public: An Online Graduate Program; The Inconvenient Truth: A Documentary on Global Warming; Oceanside Community Science Project (Roth and Lee 2004; Roth and Calabrese 2004); Conclusions; References; Activity, Subjectification, and Personality: Science Education from a Diversity-of-Life Perspective; Cultural-Historical Activity Theory; Activity and Actions; Subjectification; Personality; On the Way to Become a Doctor
    Description / Table of Contents: Early Activities and RelationsHigh School Science; Science Internship; College Science; Resident Care Assistant; Coda; References; Reflexivity and Diversity in Science Education Research in Europe: Towards Cultural Perspectives; Introduction; Cultural Studies and Issues of Diversity in Science Education; The State of the Art of Cultural Studies of Science Education in Europe; Reflexivity: Theoretical Barriers and Horizons; Towards Cultural Studies as a Unifying Research Paradigm; References; Part II: From Learning to Pedagogy; Science Education for Diversity and Informal Learning
    Description / Table of Contents: Importance of Informal Environments for Learning ScienceKey Features of Science Learning in Informal Environments; Activation of Prior Knowledge; Acknowledging and Valuing Multiple Perspectives; Sociocultural Frameworks for Informal Science Learning; Sociocultural Approach with Individual Science Learning Goals: Social Constructivism; Sociocultural Approach with Community Learning Goals: Collective Praxis; The Practice of Informal Science Education for Diversity; Examples of the Impact of Exhibit Design on Collaborative Talk; Involving Diverse Groups in Development of Programs and Exhibits
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    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Why science education for diversity? Nasser Mansour and Rupert Wegerif -- Part 1. Science education reform for diversity -- Chapter 1: Dialogic Science Education for Diversity, Rupert Wegerif, Keith Postlethwaite, Nigel Skinner, Nasser Mansour, Alun Morgan, Lindsay Hetherington -- Chapter2: Expanding Notions of Scientific Literacy: A Re-conceptualization of Aims of Science Education in the Knowledge Society, Xiufeng Liu -- Chapter3: Activity, Subjectification, and Personality: Science Education from a Diversity-of-Life Perspective, Wolff-Michael Roth, University of Victoria -- Chapter 4: Reflexivity and diversity in research on science education: A European account, Michiel van Eijck -- Part 2, from learning to pedagogy -- Chapter 5: Science education for diversity and informal learning, Loran E. Parker and Gerald H. Krockover -- Chapter 6: Diverse, disengaged and reactive: A teacher’s adaptation of ethical dilemma story pedagogy as a strategy to re-engage learners in education for sustainability,  Elisabeth Taylor, Peter Charles Taylor and MeiLing Chow -- Chapter 7: Tracing science in the early childhood classroom: the historicity of multi-resourced discourse practices in multilingual interaction, Charles Max, Gudrun Ziegler and Martin Kracheel -- Chapter 8: Conceptual frameworks, metaphysical commitments and worldviews: the challenge of reflecting the relationships between science and religion in science education, Keith S. Taber -- Chapter 9: Science Curriculum Reform on “Scientific Literacy for All” across National Contexts: Case Studies of Curricula from England and Hong Kong, Sibel Erduran and Siu Ling Wong -- Part 3 science teacher Education and diversity -- Chapter 10: Science teachers' cultural beliefs and diversities: A sociocultural perspective to science education, Nasser Mansour -- Chapter 11: Envisioning Science Teacher Preparation for Diversity in 21st Century Classrooms: Some Tensions, Norm Thomson, Deborah J. Tippins -- Chapter12: Expanded agency in multilingual science teacher training classrooms, Silvia Lizette Ramos De Robles & Mariona Espinet -- Part 4  Cultural issues in science Education -- Chapter 13: Re-conceptualizing a lifelong science education system that supports diversity: The role of free-choice learning, Lynn D. Dierking -- Chapter 14: Ignoring half the Sky: A feminist critique of science education’s knowledge society, Kathryn Scantlebury, Anita Hussénius, Kristina Andersson and Annica Gullberg -- Chapter 15: Religion in Science Education, Michael J. Reiss -- Chapter 16: Students’ perceptions of apparent contradictions between science and religion: Creation is only the beginning, Berry Billingsley -- Chapter 17: Gender and science in the Arab states: Current status and future prospects, Saouma BouJaoude & Ghada Gholam.
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789400759145
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIII, 524 p. 109 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Innovations in Science Education and Technology 19
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Concepts of matter in science education
    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: Bringing together a wide collection of ideas, reviews, analyses and new research on particulate and structural concepts of matter, Concepts of Matter in Science Education informs practice from pre-school through graduate school learning and teaching and aims to inspire progress in science education. The expert contributors offer a range of reviews and critical analyses of related literature and in-depth analysis of specific issues, as well as new research. Among the themes covered are learning progressions for teaching a particle model of matter, the mental models of both students and teachers of the particulate nature of matter, educational technology, chemical reactions and chemical phenomena, chemical structure and bonding, quantum chemistry and the history and philosophy of science relating to the particulate nature of matter. The book will benefit a wide audience including classroom practitioners and student teachers at every educational level, teacher educators and researchers in science education. "If gaining the precise meaning in particulate terms of what is solid, what is liquid, and that air is a gas, were that simple, we would not be confronted with another book which, while suggesting new approaches to teaching these topics, confirms they are still very difficult for students to learn". Peter Fensham, Emeritus Professor Monash University, Adjunct Professor QUT (from the foreword to this book)
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; Editors' Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction : Concepts of Matter - Complex to Teach and Difficult to Learn; This Volume; References; Part I: Learning Progressions for Teaching a Particle Model of Matter; Learning Progression Developed to Support Students in Building a Particle Model of Matter; Introduction; Literature Review of Student Conceptions of the Particle Nature of Matter; Learning Progressions and Progress Variables; The Curriculum; Identifying and Unpacking Standards; Teachers' Role in Curriculum Development
    Description / Table of Contents: Supporting Student Development of a Particle Model of MatterTeachers' Professional Development; Student Artifacts; Scoring; Data Analysis; Student Progress to a Particle Model of Matter; Student Development of a Particle Model of Matter; Conclusions and Implications; Appendix; References; How Students' Understanding of Particle Theory Develops: A Learning Progression; Introduction; The Rasch Model; Methodology; Item Development; Aspects Addressed; The Instrument; Participants; Results; Rasch Analysis; Underfitting Items
    Description / Table of Contents: The Variable Described by the Particle Model Items: A Learning ProgressionWhere Are the Students on the Scale?; Discussion; Conclusion; References; Implicit Assumptions and Progress Variables in a Learning Progression About Structure and Motion of Matter; Introduction; Learning Progressions; Approaches to Studying LPs; Our Theoretical Commitments in Studying an LP on Chemistry; Method; Part 1: Theory of Cognition; The Structure of Our LP Framework: Progress Variables and Intermediate Levels; The Initial Learning Progression Relating Particle-Level Structure and Properties of Materials
    Description / Table of Contents: Initial Hypothesis for the Model of CognitionPart 2: Assessment; Measuring Implicit Assumptions; Part 3: Interpretation; Refinement of the Learning Progression; Distributions of Thinking Patterns in Each Progress Variable Across Schooling Levels; Interpretation of Distribution Results in the Context of the Curriculum; Discussion and Implications; Conclusion; References; At the Beginning Was Amount of Material: A Learning Progression for Matter for Early Elementary Grades; Introduction; LPM and LPM-Based Curricula: General Considerations; Stepping Stones; Core Concepts; Lower Anchor
    Description / Table of Contents: Precursors of Matter: Objects, Nonsolids, and SubstantialityPrecursor of Material: Nonsolids; Amount of Material; Weight; Precursors of Volume; Grade 2 Stepping Stone; From the Lower Anchor to the Grade 2 Stepping Stone; Translating LPM into a Curriculum: Lever Concepts for Grades K to 2; Supporting the Material Construal in the K-2 Learning Progression; Supporting the Concept of Amount of Material in the K-2 Learning Progression; Kindergarten Training Study; Intervention for Experimental Group; Material Construal Activities; Amount of Material Activities; The Conceptual Role of Weight
    Description / Table of Contents: Method
    Description / Table of Contents: PETER FENSHAM ForewordGEORGIOS TSAPARLIS AND HANNAH SEVIAN Introduction: Concepts of matter - Complex to teach and difficult to learn - PART I: LEARNING PROGRESSIONS FOR TEACHING A PARTICLE MODEL OF MATTER -- JOI MERRITT AND JOSEPH KRAJCIK Learning progression developed to support students in building a particle model of matter -- PHILIP JOHNSON How students’ understanding of particle theory develops: A learning progression -- HANNAH SEVIAN AND MARILYNE STAINS Implicit assumptions and progress variables in a learning progression about structure and motion of matter -- MARIANNE WISER, KATHRYN E. FRAZIER AND VICTORIA FOX At the beginning was amount of material: A learning progression for matter for early elementary grades -- PART II: STUDENTS’ AND TEACHERS’ MENTAL MODELS OF THE PARTICULATE NATURE OF MATTER -- DAVID F. TREAGUST, A. L. CHANDRASEGARAN, LILIA HALIM, ENG TEK ONG, AHMAD NURULAZAM MD ZAIN AND MAGESWARY KARPUDEWAN Understanding of basic particle nature of matter concepts by secondary school students following an intervention program -- MEI-HUNG CHIU AND SHIAO-LAN CHUNG The use of multiple perspectives of conceptual change to investigate students' mental models of gas particles -- CANAN NAKIBOĞLU AND KEITH S. TABER The atom as a tiny solar system: Turkish high school students' understanding of the atom in relation to a common teaching analogy -- ELENI PETRIDOU, DIMITRIS PSILLOS, EURIPIDES HATZIKRANIOTIS AND MARIA KALLERY A study on the exploratory use of microscopic models as investigative tools: The case of electrostatic polarization -- INGO EILKS Teacher pathways through the particulate nature of matter in lower secondary school chemistry: Continuous switching between different models or a coherent conceptual structure? -- FAIK Ö. KARATAŞ, SUAT ÜNAL, GREGORY DURLAND AND GEORGE BODNER What do we know about students' beliefs? Changes in students' conceptions of the particulate nature of matter from pre-instruction to college -- AJDA KAHVECI Diagnostic assessment of student understanding of the particular nature of matter: Decades of research -- PART III: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY -- SEVIL AKAYGUN AND LORETTA L. JONES Dynamic visualizations: Tools for understanding the particulate nature of matter -- GEORGE KALKANIS From the scientific to the educational: Using Monte Carlo simulations of the microKosmos for science education by inquiry.-PART IV: CHEMICAL REACTIONS, CHEMICAL PHENOMENA -- GEORGE PAPAGEORGIOU Can simple particle models support satisfying explanations of chemical changes for young students? -- VICENTE TALANQUER How do students reason about chemical substances and reactions? -- KEITH S. TABER AND KARINA ADBO Developing chemical understanding in the explanatory vacuum: Swedish high school students' use of an anthropomorphic conceptual framework to make sense of chemical phenomena -- PART V: CHEMICAL STRUCTURE AND BONDING -- TAMI LEVY NAHUM, RACHEL MAMLOK-NAAMAN AND AVI HOFSTEIN Teaching and learning of the chemical bonding concept: Problems and some pedagogical issues and recommendations -- KEITH S. TABER A common core to chemical conceptions: Learners' conceptions of chemical stability, change and bonding -- MARIJN R. MEIJER, ASTRID M. W. BULTE AND ALBERT PILOT Macro-Micro thinking with structure-property relations: Integrating ‘meso levels’ in secondary education -- GEORGIOS TSAPARLIS Learning and teaching the basic quantum chemical concepts -- PART VI: HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- CONSTANTINE D. SKORDOULIS AND VANGELIS KOUTALIS Investigating the historical development of the concept of matter: Controversies about/in ancient atomism -- GEORGIOS TSAPARLIS AND HANNAH SEVIAN Toward a scientifically sound understanding of concepts of matter.
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    ISBN: 9789400760912
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 389 p. 35 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences 1
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Cellucci, Carlo, 1940 - Rethinking logic
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Computer science ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Computer science ; Computer science ; Logic ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logik ; Interdisziplinäre Forschung
    Abstract: This volume examines the limitations of mathematical logic and proposes a new approach to logic intended to overcome them. To this end, the book compares mathematical logic with earlier views of logic, both in the ancient and in the modern age, including those of Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Descartes, Leibniz, and Kant. From the comparison it is apparent that a basic limitation of mathematical logic is that it narrows down the scope of logic confining it to the study of deduction, without providing tools for discovering anything new. As a result, mathematical logic has had little impact on scientific practice. Therefore, this volume proposes a view of logic according to which logic is intended, first of all, to provide rules of discovery, that is, non-deductive rules for finding hypotheses to solve problems. This is essential if logic is to play any relevant role in mathematics, science and even philosophy. To comply with this view of logic, this volume formulates several rules of discovery, such as induction, analogy, generalization, specialization, metaphor, metonymy, definition, and diagrams. A logic based on such rules is basically a logic of discovery, and involves a new view of the relation of logic to evolution, language, reason, method and knowledge, particularly mathematical knowledge. It also involves a new view of the relation of philosophy to knowledge. This book puts forward such new views, trying to open again many doors that the founding fathers of mathematical logic had closed historically
    Description / Table of Contents: PrefaceChapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Ancient Perspectives -- Chapter 2. The Origin of Logic -- Chapter 3. Ancient Logic and Science -- Chapter 4. The Analytic Method -- Chapter 5. The Analytic-Synthetic Method -- Chapter 6. Aristotle's Logic: The Deductivist View -- Chapter 7. Aristotle's Logic: The Heuristic View -- Part II. Modern Perspectives -- Chapter 8. The Method of Modern Science -- Chapter 9. The Quest for a Logic of Discovery -- Chapter 10. Frege's Approach to Logic -- Chapter 11. Gentzen's Approach to Logic -- Chapter 12. The Limitations of Mathematical Logic -- Chapter 13. Logic, Method, and the Psychology of Discovery -- Part III: An Alternative Perspective -- Chapter 14. Reason and Knowledge -- Chapter 15. Reason, Knowledge and Emotion -- Chapter 16. Logic, Evolution, Language and Reason -- Chapter 17. Logic, Method and Knowledge -- Chapter 18. Classifying and Justifying Inference Rules -- Chapter 19. Philosophy and Knowledge -- Part IV: Rules of Discovery -- Chapter 20. Induction and Analogy -- Chapter 21. Other Rules of Discovery -- Chapter 22. Conclusion -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
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    ISBN: 9789048190720 , 1283633604 , 9781283633604
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 247 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Quality of Life in Asia 1
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Inoguchi, Takashi, 1944 - The quality of life in Asia
    DDC: 306.095090511
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    Keywords: Lebensqualität ; Zufriedenheit ; Lebensstil ; Vergleich ; Asien ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Regional economics ; Social policy ; Quality of Life Research ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Regional economics ; Social policy ; Quality of Life Research ; Quality of life ; United States ; History ; 21st century ; Asien ; Lebensqualität ; Asien ; Lebensqualität
    Abstract: This book studies and compares quality of life in 29 countries/societies in Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Korea(South), Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. We utilize the AsiaBarometer Surveys conducted annually from 2003 through 2008. We focus on the notion of subjective quality of life and conceptualize it as two levels, global and domain. After we explain about the AsiaBarometer Survey Project, we explore current country profile, demographics, lifestyles, value priorities, specific life domain assessment and overall quality of life. We then estimate the independent effects of demographics, lifestyles, value priorities, life domain assessment on the overall quality of life within each society. As well as comparing the results between nations, we look for key generalized characteristics of life quality for the entire and sub-regions of Asia.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Quality of Life in Asia; Synoptic Outline; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Asia: Enormous Diversity; 1.2 Asia: Why Is Quality of Life in Asia Important to Examine?; 1.3 The Notion of Quality of Life and Research Design; 1.4 Organization; References; Chapter 2: The AsiaBarometer Survey Project; 2.1 Its Aim and Trust; 2.1.1 Introduction; 2.1.2 Rationale and Promises of the AsiaBarometer; 2.1.2.1 Knowledge Begets Prosperity; 2.1.2.2 Knowledge Engenders Stability; 2.1.2.3 Contribution to Scholarship; 2.1.3 Principles of Questionnaire Formulation
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1.3.1 Minimum Unobtrusiveness2.1.3.2 Minimum Oddness; 2.1.3.3 Most Similar and Most Dissimilar Systems Comparisons; 2.1.4 Four Distinctive Clusters of Questions; 2.1.4.1 Daily Lives of Ordinary People; 2.1.4.2 Perceptions and Assessments of Their Lives; 2.1.4.3 From Relationships of Their Lives to Larger Social Entities; 2.1.4.4 Norms, Beliefs, Value Preferences, and Actions; 2.1.5 Harvesting the AsiaBarometer Survey; 2.1.6 Gauging Developmental, Democratic, and Regionalizing Potentials; 2.2 Methodology; 2.2.1 Countries/Societies; 2.2.2 Sampling Methods of the AsiaBarometer Survey
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 3: Overall Quality of Life in Asia; 3.1 Levels of Happiness; 3.2 Levels of Enjoyment; 3.3 Levels of Achievement; Reference; Chapter 4: Satisfaction Levels with Specific Life Domains; 4.1 Materialist Life Sphere; 4.1.1 Housing; 4.1.2 Standard of Living; 4.1.3 Household Income; 4.1.4 Health; 4.1.5 Education; 4.1.6 Job; 4.2 Post-materialist Life Sphere; 4.2.1 Friendships; 4.2.2 Marriage; 4.2.3 Neighbors; 4.2.4 Family Life; 4.2.5 Leisure; 4.2.6 Spiritual Life; 4.3 Public Sphere of Life; 4.3.1 Public Safety; 4.3.2 The Condition of the Environment; 4.3.3 Social Welfare System
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3.4 The Democratic System4.4 Patterns of Life Domain Satisfactions by Society; 4.5 Distinguishing Life Sphere of Domain Satisfactions in Each Country and Society; 4.5.1 East Asia; 4.5.1.1 China; 4.5.1.2 Hong Kong; 4.5.1.3 Japan; 4.5.1.4 South Korea; 4.5.1.5 Taiwan; 4.5.2 Southeast Asia; 4.5.2.1 Brunei; 4.5.2.2 Cambodia; 4.5.2.3 Indonesia; 4.5.2.4 Laos; 4.5.2.5 Malaysia; 4.5.2.6 Myanmar; 4.5.2.7 The Philippines; 4.5.2.8 Singapore; 4.5.2.9 Thailand; 4.5.2.10 Vietnam; 4.5.3 South Asia; 4.5.3.1 Bangladesh; 4.5.3.2 Bhutan; 4.5.3.3 India; 4.5.3.4 The Maldives; 4.5.3.5 Nepal; 4.5.3.6 Pakistan
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.5.3.7 Sri Lanka4.5.4 Central Asia; 4.5.4.1 Afghanistan; 4.5.4.2 Kazakhstan; 4.5.4.3 Kyrgyzstan; 4.5.4.4 Mongolia; 4.5.4.5 Tajikistan; 4.5.4.6 Uzbekistan; 4.5.5 Types of Countries (Societies) Based on Factor Analyses; References; Chapter 5: Lifestyles; 5.1 Modern Life; 5.2 Digital Life; 5.3 Religious Life; 5.4 Global Life; 5.5 Political Life; 5.6 Family Life; 5.7 Self-Assessments of Relative Standard of Living; References; Chapter 6: Value Priorities; Chapter 7: Determinants of Overall Quality of Life; 7.1 Dependent Variables; 7.1.1 Happiness; 7.1.2 Enjoyment; 7.1.3 Achievement
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.2 Independent Variables
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 279p. 123 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Demographic Research Monographs, A series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    DDC: 304.8
    Keywords: Social sciences ; History ; Migration ; Social Sciences
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    ISBN: 9789400726888
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 91p. 15 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Social sciences ; History ; Migration ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; History ; Migration
    Abstract: Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1: Pre-confederation Settlement Activities -- 2: Post-confederation Settlement Activities to 1945 -- 3: The Settlement Service and the Citizenship Branch -- 4: Creation of the Settlement Program -- 5: Constitutional Issues and Settlement in Québec -- 6: Repatriation of the Settlement Program -- 7: Program Review and Settlement Renewal -- 8: Solving the Funding Issues -- 9: Foreign Credential Recognition -- 10: Emerging Issues and the New Terms and Conditions -- Summary and Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Canadian Immigration Halls -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Index
    Abstract: While much has been written about Canada's modern settlement program and there is a growing body of research and analysis of the settlement and integration successes and challenges of recent years, there is virtually no literature that has addressed the history of settlement services since the beginning of immigration to Canada. Some survey histories of Canadian Immigration have touched on elements of settlement policy but no history of services to immigrants in Canada has been published heretofore. Responding to Immigrants' Settlement Needs: The Canadian Experience addresses this gap in the h
    Description / Table of Contents: Responding to Immigrants' Settlement Needs:The Canadian Experience; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Contents; 1 Pre-Confederation Settlement Activities; In the Beginning; Protect the Emigrant; Protect Yourself; 2 Post-Confederation Settlement Activities to 1945; Sorting Out the Jurisdictions; Dominion Government Initiatives; The Last Best West; Between the Wars; 3 The Settlement Service and the Citizenship Branch; Demise of the Settlement Service; 4 Creation of the Settlement Program; Improvements to the Settlement Program; Organizational Challenges
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Constitutional Issues and Settlement in QuébecThe Meech Lake Accord; The Charlottetown Accord; The Canada-Québec Immigration Accord; 6 Repatriation of the Settlement Program; 7 Program Review and Settlement Renewal; Trying to Give it Away; Consultations and Negotiations; Implications of Program Review at Human Resources; The Settlement Allocation Model; 8 Solving the Funding Issues; The Canada-Ontario Immigration Agreement; Other Provinces Catch Up; Resettlement Assistance Program; 9 Foreign Credential Recognition; 10 Emerging Issues and the New Terms and Conditions
    Description / Table of Contents: Francophone Immigration Outside QuébecSettlement Services Abroad; Enhanced Language Training; Welcoming Communities Initiative; Local Immigration Partnerships; Contribution Accountability Framework; New Terms and Conditions; The Transfer of the Multiculturalism Program to CIC; 11 Summary and Conclusion; Appendix 1; Bibliography; Endnotes; Index;
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    ISBN: 9789048138258 , 9048138256
    Language: English
    Pages: XXIV, 401 S. , Ill. , 24 cm
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Pearce, Charles E.M. Oceanic Migration
    DDC: 304.89600901
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    Keywords: Prehistoric peoples ; Human beings Migrations ; Human beings Migrations ; Culture diffusion ; Culture diffusion ; Climatic changes Social aspects ; History ; Oceania Civilization ; Polynesia Civilization ; Prehistoric peoples ; Pacific Area ; Human beings ; Pacific Area ; Migrations ; Culture diffusion ; Polynesia ; Civilization ; Pazifischer Ozean ; Indischer Ozean ; Meereskunde ; Indischer Ozean Region ; Klimaänderung ; Migration ; Pazifischer Raum ; Siedlung ; Pazifischer Raum ; Seehandel
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    ISBN: 9789048132881 , 128283925X , 9789048132874 , 9781282839250
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    Series Statement: Trends in Logic 29
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Philosophy ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Logic ; Semantics ; Syntax. ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Logic ; Philosophy (General) ; Semantics ; Syntax ; Logik ; Sprachphilosophie
    Abstract: Syntax -- Semantics -- Categorial Analysis -- Conclusion
    Abstract: This book is intended as a preliminary work for a uniform description of language, especially overall organization and architecture of grammar and its connection with semantics. An array of general logical intuitions, concerning the initial requirements for building and interpreting compound expressions, stemming from Frege, Husserl and Ajdukiewicz, is spelled out to form a general framework, allowing for critical evaluation of today’s leading paradigms, such as Generative Grammar, Montague Grammar or Type-Logical Grammar. The main message of the book is that categorial grammar is not only one of the competing theories of syntax, but - according to some general features - is the most plausible framework for logical syntax of natural language. With profound motivation the book proposes an original treatment of quantification and formulates insightful general principles of syntactic analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 SYNTAX; 3 SEMANTICS; 4 CATEGORIAL ANALYSIS; 5 CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX;
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    ISBN: 9781402084270
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXX, 666p, digital)
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    DDC: 306.43
    Keywords: Language and languages ; Science Study and teaching ; Statistics ; Education
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    ISBN: 9781402066399
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. African Cultural Astronomy
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    ISBN: 9781402059933
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    Series Statement: Self Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices 5
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Berry, Amanda Self Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices ; 5: Tensions in teaching about teaching
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    Keywords: Teachers Training of ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Teaching and Teacher Education
    Abstract: Contexts Of The Study -- Beginning To Research My Practice -- Teacher Educators Studying Their Work -- Developing A Research Approach -- Tensions as a Framework for Learning About Practice in Teacher Education -- Exploring The Tensions Of Practice -- Telling and Growth -- Confidence and Uncertainty -- Action and Intent -- Safety and Challenge -- Planning and Being Responsive -- Valuing and Reconstructing Experience -- Revisiting and Summarising The Tensions -- Learning From Teaching About Teaching -- Becoming a Teacher Educator
    Abstract: This series in Teacher Education: Self-study of Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP) has been created in order to offer clear and strong examples of self-study of teaching and teacher education practices. It explicitly values the work of teachers and teacher educators and through the research of their practice, offers insights into new ways of encouraging educational change. The series is designed to complement the Inter- tional Handbook of Self-study of Teaching and Teacher Education practices (Loughran, Hamilton, LaBoskey, & Russell, 2004) and as such, helps to further define this important field of teaching and research. Self-study of teaching and teacher education practices has become an important ‘way in’to better understanding the complex world of teaching and learning about teaching. The questions, issues and concerns, of teacher educators in and of their own practice are dramatically different to those raised by observers of the field. Hence, self-study can be seen as an invitation to teacher educators to more meani- fully link research and practice in ways that matter for their pedagogy and, as a consequence, their students’learning about pedagogy
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences
    DDC: 304.6
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    Keywords: History ; Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Demography ; Social Sciences, general ; Neolithic period ; Demographic transition ; Neolithikum ; Demographie
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    ISBN: 9781402058820 , 9781402036125
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    Pages: VII, 354 S. , ill. (partly col.) , 25 cm
    Series Statement: Models and modeling in science education 1
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    DDC: 370.1
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    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Visualization ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht ; Visualisierung ; Fachdidaktik
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    ISBN: 9781402059087 , 9781402059070 , 1402059078
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    Pages: XXVII, 542 S. , Ill.
    DDC: 306.43
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    Keywords: Mathematik ; Naturwissenschaft ; Education and globalization ; Mathematics Study and teaching ; Science Study and teaching ; Mathematikunterricht ; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mathematikunterricht ; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht
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    ISBN: 9781402051906
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 319 p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Religion and the decline of fertility in the western world
    DDC: 304.6
    Keywords: History ; Religion (General) ; Sociology ; Demography ; Social Sciences, general ; Westliche Welt ; Geburtenrückgang ; Religion
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    ISBN: 9781402044984
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 418 p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Caldwell, John C., 1928 - Demographic transition theory
    DDC: 304.6
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; History ; Humanities ; Demography ; Sexual behavior ; Social Sciences ; Bevölkerungsgeographie ; Demographischer Wandel ; Kulturbeographie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Demographie
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    ISBN: 9781402038907
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d’histoire des idées 191
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Hill, Lisa, 1961 - The passionate society
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    Keywords: Political science Philosophy ; History ; Economics Methodology ; Political science ; Sociology ; Social Sciences, general ; Ferguson, Adam 1723-1816
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    Series Statement: Studies in Philosophy and Religion 26
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Approaches to metaphysics
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Phenomenology ; History ; Philosophy ; Religion. ; Religion—Philosophy. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Metaphysik ; Metaphysik
    Abstract: Today, when systematic philosophy - and reason itself - are challenged both outside of and within philosophy, is it still possible to do metaphysics? This volume provides a broad perspective on contemporary approaches to the nature and the fundamental questions of metaphysics. Drawing on scholars from continental Europe, Asia, Canada, the United States, and Great Britain, and representing a variety of philosophical cultures and traditions, this volume surveys and extends work in metaphysics and its implications for broader philosophical concerns (e.g., in ethics and social philosophy, in mathematics and logic, and in epistemology). It also addresses such questions as the role of history and historicity in undertaking metaphysics, the nature of metaphysics, the priority of metaphysics over epistemology, and the challenges of empiricism and postmodernism.
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 323 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Handbook of Philosophical Logic 11
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Computational linguistics.
    Abstract: The first edition of the Handbook of Philosophical Logic (four volumes) was published in the period 1983-1989 and has proven to be an invaluable reference work to both students and researchers in formal philosophy, language and logic. The second edition of the Handbook is intended to comprise some 18 volumes and will provide a very up-to-date authoritative, in-depth coverage of all major topics in philosophical logic and its applications in many cutting-edge fields relating to computer science, language, argumentation, etc. The volumes will no longer be as topic-oriented as with the first edition because of the way the subject has evolved over the last 15 years or so. However the volumes will follow some natural groupings of chapters
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    ISBN: 9781402024559
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 287 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 239
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 239
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Physics. ; History ; Physics—Philosophy.
    Abstract: This book collects contributions by some of the leading scholars working on seventeenth-century mechanics and the mechanical philosophy. Together, the articles provide a broad and accurate picture of the fortune of Galileo's theory of motion in Europe and of the various physical, mathematical, and ontological arguments that were used in favour and against it. Were Galileo's contemporaries really aware of what Westfall has described as "the incompatibility between the demands of mathematical mechanics and the needs of mechanical philosophy"? To what extent did Galileo's silence concerning the cause of free fall impede the acceptance of his theory of motion? Which methods were used, before the invention of the infinitesimal calculus, to check the validity of Galileo's laws of free fall and of parabolic motion? And what sort of experiments were invoked in favour or against these laws? These and related questions are addressed in this volume
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 287 p) , online resource
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    Series Statement: Developments in International Law
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Regional planning ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; History ; Ethnology. ; Culture.
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    ISBN: 9781402021961
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 359 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna Vienna Circle Society, Society for the Advancement of Scientific World Conceptions 11
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Philosophy and science. ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Logic. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Philosophy—History. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Philosophy, modern ; Science Philosophy
    Abstract: Induction and Deduction in the Philosophy of Science: a Critical Account since the Methodenstreit -- Historicizing Deduction: Scientific Method, Critical Debate, and the Historian -- Inference to the Best Theory, rather than Inference to the Best Explanation — Kinds of Abduction and Induction -- The Significance of Explanatory Considerations -- Truth-seeking by Abduction -- Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism -- Adaptive Logics and the Integration of Induction and Deduction -- Argument, Inference and Reasoning — Integrating Induction and Deduction -- Laws are Persistent Inductive Schemes -- Physical Intuition as Inductive Support -- Frege, Neo-Logicism and Applied Mathematics -- Remarks About a “General Science of Reasoning” -- Two Questions About the Revival of Frege’s Programme -- Handling Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, and the Bayesian Controversy -- Artificial Intelligence and Its Methodological Implications -- Supplying Planks for Neurath’s Boat: Can Economists Meet the Demands of the Dynamics of Scientific Theories? -- Informational Economy and Creativity -- The Place of the Notion of Corroboration in Karl Popper’s Philosophy of Science -- How can a Falsified Theory Remain Corroborated ? -- Inductivism in 19th Century German Economics -- The Uniformity of Nature: What Purpose does it Serve? -- Planning, Democratization and Popularization with ISOTYPE, ca. 1945: a Study of Otto Neurath’s Pictorial Statistics with the Example of Bilston, England -- Reviews -- Activities 2003 -- Preview 2004 -- Remembering Dick Jeffrey (1926-2002) (Maria Carla Galavotti) -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: The articles in this volume deal with the main inferential methods that can be applied to different kinds of experimental evidence. These contributions - accompanied with critical comments - by renowned scholars in the field of philosophy of science aim at removing the traditional opposition between inductivists and deductivists. They explore the different methods of explanation and justification in the sciences in different contexts and with different objectives. The volume contains contributions on methods of the sciences, especially on induction, deduction, abduction, laws, probability and explanation, ranging from logic, mathematics, natural to the social sciences. They present a highly topical pluralist re-evaluation of methodological and foundational procedures and reasoning, e.g. focusing in Bayesianism and Artificial Intelligence. They document the second international conference in Vienna on "Induction and Deduction in the Sciences" as part of the Scientific Network on "Historical and Contemporary Perspectives of Philosophy of Science in Europe", funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF).
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; A Critical Account since the Methodenstreit
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  • 94
    ISBN: 9781402028083
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 626 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, And The Unity Of Science 1
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Biology Philosophy ; Physics ; Philosophy and science. ; Epistemology. ; Logic ; Developmental biology ; Philosophy. ; Biology—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: The aim of the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, of which this is the first volume, is to take up anew the challenge of considering the scientific enterprise in its entirety in light of recent developments in logic and philosophy. Developments in logic are especially relevant to the current situation in philosophy of science. At present, there is no single logic, single approach to semantics or well-defined conception of scientific method dominating the philosophy of science. At the same time, questions concerning linguistic, reductionist and foundationalist approaches to epistemology, the analytic and synthetic distinction as well as disputes concerning semantics and pragmatics have been illuminated by recent developments in logic. Given the power of such developments, discussions of the unity of science are even more intriguing and urgent than in the 20th century. The first title in this new series aims to explore, through extensive co-operation, new ways of achieving the integration of science in all its diversity. The present volume contains essays from some of the most important and influential philosophers in contemporary philosophy, discussing a range of topics such as philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of logic and game theoretical approaches. It will be of great interest to philosophers, computer scientists and all others interested in the scientific rationality
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  • 95
    ISBN: 9789401001755
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 249 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education 20
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    Keywords: Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Science education. ; Teaching. ; International education . ; Comparative education. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Teachers—Training of.
    Abstract: Research in science education is now an international activity. This book asks for the first time, Does this research activity have an identity? -It uses the significant studies of more than 75 researchers in 15 countries to see to what extent they provide evidence for an identity as a distinctive field of research. -It considers trends in the research over time, and looks particularly at what progression in the research entails. -It provides insight into how researchers influence each other and how involvement in research affects the being of the researcher as a person. -It addresses the relation between research and practice in a manner that sees teaching and learning in the science classroom as interdependent with national policies and curriculum traditions about science. It gives graduate students and other early researchers an unusual overview of their research area as a whole. Established researchers will be interested in, and challenged by, the identity the author ascribes to the research and by the plea he makes for the science content itself to be seen as problematic
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  • 96
    ISBN: 9781402057007
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (299 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Science & Technology Education Library 21
    Series Statement: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education 21
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    Keywords: Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Science education. ; Learning. ; Instruction. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Learning, Psychology of.
    Abstract: Weaving Narrative Nets to Capture Classrooms blends theory and practice in considering qualitative research in education. This book seeks to find an appropriate balance between deep, thoughtful consideration of issues related to qualitative research in education - methods, stances and standards - and practical 'how to' advice for beginning researchers. The author uses a particular research study he has conducted as an example of the issues addressed and the decisions made in qualitative research. This study includes 'School Stories': a compelling, 56 page, research-based 'novel' of classroom life reflecting on a year in the life of a group of teachers and students. This book is of interest to graduate students and faculty in educational research. Teachers who are inquiring into their own educational beliefs and practices in disciplined ways, often as part of a graduate degree, and those who supervise and support them, will find valuable, practical advice on conducting and writing research. The book raises questions to be addressed and issues for reflection, rather than making prescriptions
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400710368
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 415 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 54
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy. ; Linguistics Philosophy ; History ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Philosophy—History.
    Abstract: This book gives a clear and thorough description of three fascinating linguistic projects that were carried out in the seventeenth century: the philosophical languages of George Dalgarno (1661) and John Wilkins (1668), as well as the work of Leibniz in this area. These projects combined practical purposes, such as improving communication, with profound theoretical insights concerning the representation of knowledge and the nature of language. Rich in detail, this book provides all the material for a proper understanding of the workings of these schemes, while illuminating the intellectual context in which they took shape. It will be welcomed by anyone interested in the history of linguistics and philosophy of language
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  • 98
    ISBN: 9789401704311
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXV, 240 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 9
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    Keywords: Computer science ; Logic ; Artificial intelligence ; Computational linguistics
    Abstract: This book represents the first coherent published work in bringing together various branches of artificial intelligence with argumentation and rhetoric, and, as such, aims to play a key role in the establishment of a new field of scholarly research. The volume not only offers in-depth assessments of existing research, but also represents a substantial advance in the state of the art, and lays out a roadmap for future work in this newly emerging cross-disciplinary field. Audience: This book is of interest to academics, researchers, PhD and graduate students in philosophy of argument, logic, informal logic, critical thinking, rhetoric, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, computational linguistics, natural language processing, law, cognitive science and the interdisciplinary areas between these fields
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  • 99
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    Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9781402022388
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 246 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 188
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Religion. ; History. ; Philosophy—History. ; History ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Science Congresses history ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Newton, Isaac 1643-1727 ; Newton, Isaac 1643-1727 ; Rezeption ; Newton, Isaac 1643-1727 ; Religion ; Newton, Isaac 1643-1727
    Abstract: The New Newtonian Scholarship and the Fate of the Scientific Revolution -- Plans for Publishing Newton’s Religious and Alchemical Manuscripts, 1982–1998 -- Digitizing Isaac: The Newton Project and an Electronic Edition of Newton’s Papers -- Was Newton a Voluntarist? -- Providence and Newton’s Pantokrator: Natural Law, Miracles, and Newtonian Science -- Eighteenth-Century Reactions to Newton’s Anti-Trinitarianism -- Prosecuting Athanasius: Protestant Forensics and the Mirrors of Persecution -- Lust, Pride, and Ambition: Isaac Newton and the Devil -- Women, Science, and Newtonianism: Emilie du Châtelet versus Francesco Algarotti -- Reflections on Newton’s Alchemy in Light of the New Historiography of Alchemy -- The Trouble with Newton in the Eighteenth Century.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Proceedings of a conference held in Nov. 2000 at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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  • 100
    ISBN: 9781402018541
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 246 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Science & Technology Education Library 22
    Series Statement: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education 22
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    Keywords: Curriculum planning ; Science Study and teaching ; Learning. ; Instruction. ; Teaching. ; Science education. ; Curriculums (Courses of study). ; Education ; Education—Curricula. ; Teachers—Training of. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Learning, Psychology of.
    Abstract: How can educators bridge the gap between "big" ideas about teaching students to think and educational practice? This book addresses this question by a unique combination of theory, field experience and elaborate educational research. Its basic idea is to look at science instruction with regard to two sets of explicit goals: one set refers to teaching science concepts and the second set refers to teaching higher order thinking. This book tells about how thinking can be taught not only in the rare and unique conditions that are so typical of affluent experimental educational projects but also in the less privileged but much more common conditions of educational practice that most schools have to endure. It provides empirical evidence showing that students from all academic levels actually improve their thinking and their scientific knowledge following the thinking curricula, and discusses specific means for teaching higher order thinking to students with low academic achievements. The second part of the book addresses issues that pertain to teachers' professional development and to their knowledge and beliefs regarding the teaching of higher order thinking. This book is intended for a very large audience: researchers (including graduate students), curricular designers, practicing and pre-service teachers, college students, teacher educators and those interested in educational reform. Although the book is primarily about the development of thinking in science classrooms, most of it chapters may be of interest to educators from all disciplines
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