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  • 1
    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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  • 2
    ISBN: 9789401788137
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 374 p. 104 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Formal approaches to semantics and pragmatics
    Keywords: Pragmatism ; Semantics ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Pragmatism ; Semantics ; Semantics ; Pragmatics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Japanisch ; Semantik ; Pragmatik ; Koreanisch ; Semantik ; Pragmatik ; Interdisziplinarität
    Abstract: This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian languages, particularly Japanese and Korean. The collection reflects on a range of new empirical issues that have arisen, including issues related to preference, evidentiality, and attention. Separated into several sections, the book presents discussions on: information structure, speech acts and decisions, philosophical themes in semantics, and new formal approaches to semantic and pragmatic theory. Its overarching theme is the relation between different kinds of content, from a variety of perspectives. The discussions presented are both theoretically innovative and empirically motivated
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction2. The Noncooperative Basis of Implicatures -- 3. Meta-Lambda-Calculus: Syntax and Semantics -- 4. Coordinating and Subordinating Binding Dependencies -- 5. What is a universal? On the explanatory potential of evolutionary game theory in linguistics -- 6. Continuation Hierarchy and Quantifier Scope -- 7. Japanese Reported Speech: Towards an account of perspective shift as mixed quotation -- 8. What is Evidence in Natural Language? -- 9. A Categorial Grammar Account of Information Packaging in Japanese -- 10. A Note on the Projection of Appositives -- 11. Towards Computational Non-Associative Lambek Lambda-Calculi for Formal Pragmatics -- 12. On the functions of the Japanese discourse particle yo in declaratives -- 13. A Question of Priority -- 14.Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Dynamic Epistemic Preference Logic -- 15. A Modal Scalar-Presuppositional Analysis of Only -- 16. Floating Quantifiers in Japanese as Adverbial Anaphora.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9789400778818
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 213 p. 13 illus
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.44
    Keywords: Linguistics ; African Languages ; Applied linguistics ; Sociolinguistics
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  • 4
    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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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    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: 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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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    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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    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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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789400743663
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 418 p. 129 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
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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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  • 10
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789400769434
    Language: English
    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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  • 11
    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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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789400774889
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 93 p. 13 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Education
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    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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  • 14
    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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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789400769014
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 234 p. 60 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 42
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Hendriks, Petra, 1964 - Asymmetries between language production and comprehension
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Sprachproduktion ; Sprachverstehen ; Asymmetrie ; Sprachproduktion ; Sprachverstehen ; Asymmetrie ; Online-Ressource ; Sprachproduktion ; Sprachverstehen ; Asymmetrie
    Abstract: This book asserts that language is a signaling system rather than a code, based in part on such research as the finding that 5-year-old English and Dutch children use pronouns correctly in their own utterances, but often fail to interpret these forms correctly when used by someone else. Emphasizing the unique and sometimes competing demands of listener and speaker, the author examines resulting asymmetries between production and comprehension. The text offers examples of the interpretation of word order and pronouns by listeners, and word order freezing and referential choice by speakers. It is explored why the usual symmetry breaks down in children but also sometimes in adults. Gathering contemporary insights from theoretical linguistic research, psycholinguistic studies and computational modeling, Asymmetries between Language Production and Comprehension presents a unified explanation of this phenomenon
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Understanding and Misunderstanding 2 Asymmetries in Language Acquisition -- 3 The Listener’s Perspective -- 4 The Speaker’s Perspective -- 5 Symmetry and Asymmetry Across Languages -- 6 Competing Perspectives -- Appendix -- Index.
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  • 16
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    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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  • 17
    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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  • 18
    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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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    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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    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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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    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: 9789400741683
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    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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    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: 9789400739048 , 1280798874 , 9781280798870
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices 12
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: Tom Russell
    Abstract: Part of a vital Springer series on self-study practices in teaching and teacher education, this collection offers a range of contributions to the topic that embody the reflections of science teacher educators who have applied self-study methodology to their own professional development. The material recognizes the paradox that lies between classroom science and the education of science teachers: the disciplines of science are often perceived as a quest for right answers, an unintentional by-product of the classroom focus on right answers in student assessment in science. In contrast, the profession of teaching has few right answers and frequently involves the management of conflicting tensions. A dilemma thus arises in science teacher education of how to shift perspectives among student teachers from reductionist to more inclusive attitudes that are open to the mercurial realities of teaching. The self-studies presented here are unique, fresh and stimulating. They include the input of a beginning science teacher as well as science teacher educators from a range of backgrounds and varying levels of experience. In addition, the volume presents a truly international perspective on the issues, with authors hailing from five countries. Providing analysis at the leading edge of education theory, this collection will make fascinating reading for those teaching science as well as those teaching science teachers.
    Description / Table of Contents: Self-Studies of Science Teacher Education Practices; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Exploring the Intersections of Self-Study, Science Teaching, and Science Teacher Education; References; Chapter 2: A Collaborative Self-Study of a Physics Teacher's First Two Years of Teaching; Liam's Introduction; Starting the Conversation; My First Month as a Teacher; Managing Relationships in the Classroom; Classroom Management as a Special Case of Building Relationships; Classroom Management and Building Relationships: Tom's Summary; Lowering My Academic Expectations
    Description / Table of Contents: Lowering Academic Expectations: Tom's SummaryDeveloping My Pedagogical Approach; Pedagogical Approach: Tom's Summary; Liam's Conclusions; Tom's Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: The Transformation from Expert Science Teacher to Science Teacher Educator; Research Context; Self-Study Methodology; Project 1: Peer Teaching; Project 2: Team-Teaching; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Bridging the Gap Between a Science Laboratory Past and a Science Teacher Educator Present: Rethinking the Doctoral Program in Science Education; The "Whats" and "Hows" of Science Teaching; Issues Being Addressed
    Description / Table of Contents: Cultural and Educational BackgroundDoctoral Program in Teaching and Learning with Emphasis in Science Education; Coursework; Qualifying Exams; Research; Dissertation; How Did My Doctoral Program Prepare Me to Be a Science Teacher Educator?; Coursework; Teaching; Involvement with Field/Student Teaching Experiences; How Did My Doctoral Program Prepare Me to Be a Researcher/Scholar?; Coursework; Research; Mentoring/Advisor Support; How Can Self-Study Contribute to My Continuing Professional Development as a Science Teacher Educator?; Conclusions and Future Considerations for Doctoral Programs
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 5: Articulating Our Values to Develop Our Pedagogy of Science Teacher Education; Values of Science; Use of Values and Pedagogical Knowledge; Methodology; Findings and Discussion; Stephen's Journal for Week 1; Excerpt from Critical Friend's Notes for Video Clip 2: Lesson 1, Week 2, February 2, 2010; Critical Friend's Response to Stephen's Week 1 Journal; Rebecca's Journal for Week 4; Critical Friend's Response to Rebecca's Week 4 Journal; Critical Friend's Analysis; Reframing Our Practice; Interjecting in the Moment
    Description / Table of Contents: Creating an Environment for the Public Discussion of PracticeMaking Our Values Explicit; Advantages of Team Teaching; Setting Clear Pedagogical Purposes for Our Teaching; Conclusions; References; Chapter 6: Using Self-Study to Develop a Pedagogy of Elementary Teacher Education: Addressing the Specialist-Generalist Issue; Research on Specialist and Generalist Teachers; Research Methods; Context; Self-Study Methodologies; Data Collection and Analysis; Quality in the Self-Study; Findings; Becoming an Elementary Physical Education Teacher Educator
    Description / Table of Contents: Elementary Teacher Candidates' Prior Experiences of Physical Education
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    ISBN: 9789400726819
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 970p. 10 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 90
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. Handbook of quantifiers in natural langauge ; volume 1: Handbook of quantifiers in natural language
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    Keywords: Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Quantor ; Kontrastive Linguistik ; Quantor ; Kontrastive Linguistik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Denis Paperno
    Abstract: Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook is based on responses to a questionnaire constructed by the editors. Focusing on the formation, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions, the book explores 17 languages including German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Malagasy, Hebrew, Pima, Basque, and more. The language data sets enable detailed crosslinguistic comparison of numerous features. These include semantic classes of quantifiers (generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, partitive), syntactically complex quantifiers (intensive modification, Boolean compounding, exception phrases) and several others such as quantifier scope ambiguities, quantifier float, and binary quantifiers. Its theory-independent content extends earlier work by Matthewson (2008) and Bach et al. (1995), making this handbook suitable for linguists, semanticians, philosophers of language and logicians alike. Edward L. Keenan is Distinguished Professor of linguistics at theUniversity of California at Los Angeles. He received his PhD in Formal Linguistics from The University of Pennsylvania in 1969 for a thesis on A Presupposition Logic for Natural Language. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published in numerous areas of linguistics, including syntactic typology, formal semantics, theoretical syntax, historical syntax, and Austronesian linguistics. He has co-authored two books: Boolean Semantics for Natural Language (1985), with Leonard Faltz, and Bare Grammar: Lectures on Linguistic Invariants, with Edward P. Stabler (2003). Denis Paperno is a graduate of the Moscow State University andcurrently a PhD candidate at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has done fieldwork in the Komi Republic, the Udmurt Republic, the Caucasus, and W. Africa and has written a grammar of Beng (Mande; Cote d'Ivoire) (in Russian). In addition to African linguistics he has published in semantics and syntactic typology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; How to Read This Book; Some (Un)Familiar Notation; Cross Chapter Diversity; References; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: The Quantifier Questionnaire; 1.1 Generalized Existential (Intersective) Quantifiers; 1.1.1 D-Quantifiers; 1.1.2 A-Quantifiers; 1.2 Generalized Universal (Co-intersective) Quantifiers; 1.2.1 D-Quantifiers; 1.2.2 A-Quantifiers; 1.3 Proportional Quantification; 1.3.1 D-Quantifiers; 1.3.2 A-Quantifiers; 1.4 Morpho-Syntactically Complex Quantifiers; 1.4.1 Complex D-Quantifiers; 1.4.1.1 Cardinal Quantifiers; 1.4.1.2 Value Judgment Cardinals
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.4.1.3 Exception Modifiers1.4.1.4 Proportional Quantifiers; 1.4.1.5 Boolean Compounds; 1.4.1.6 Partitives; 1.4.2 Complex A-Quantifiers; 1.4.2.1 A-Quantifiers; 1.4.2.2 Boolean Compounds; II Selected Topics; 1.5 Comparative Quantifiers; 1.6 Type (2) Quantifiers; 1.7 Distributive Numerals and Binominal Each; 1.8 Mass Quantifiers and Noun Classifiers; 1.9 Existential Constructions; 1.10 `Floating' Quantifiers; 1.11 Distribution of Quantifiers; 1.11.1 Bare Qs as Predicates; 1.11.2 Can Bare Qs Function as Arguments?; 1.12 Relations Between Lexical Universal, Existential and Interrogative Pronouns
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.13 Decreasing D-Quantifiers1.13.1 Does Your L Have Quantifiers Which Build Decreasing NPs?; 1.13.2 If Your L Has Decreasing NPs Do They License Negative Polarity Items?; 1.14 Distribution; 1.14.1 Grammatical Roles; 1.14.2 Special Positions; 1.15 Scope Ambiguities; 1.16 One to One Dependency; 1.17 Rate Phrases; 1.18 Some Concluding Spot Checks; References; Chapter 2: Quantifiers in Adyghe; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Adyghe Grammar: Some Background; 2.2.1 The asime Alternation: A Test for Syntactic Category; Three Basic Classes of Quantifiers; 2.3 Generalized Existential (Intersective) Quantifiers
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.1 D-Quantifiers2.3.1.1 Form of Existential Sentences; 2.3.1.2 Affirmative/Negative Existentials; 2.3.1.3 Pivot Position and Weak Determiners; 2.3.1.4 Numerals and Modified Numerals; 2.3.1.5 Value-Judgment Cardinals; 2.3.1.6 Interrogatives; 2.3.1.7 Boolean Compounds; 2.3.1.8 Numeral Classifiers; 2.3.1.9 Container Expressions; 2.3.1.10 Measure Phrases; 2.3.1.11 Units of Time and Distance; 2.3.2 A-Quantifiers; 2.4 Generalized Universal (Co-intersective) Quantifiers; 2.4.1 D-Quantifiers; 2.4.2 A-Quantifiers; 2.4.3 Forming Complex Universal Quantifiers; 2.5 Proportional Quantifiers
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.5.1 D-Quantifiers2.5.2 A-Quantifiers; 2.6 Follow-Up Questions; 2.6.1 Some Background; 2.6.1.1 Definite NPs; 2.6.1.2 Generic NPs; 2.6.2 Monomorphemic and Simplex Quantifiers; 2.6.2.1 Selectional Properties of D-Quantifiers; 2.6.3 Decreasing QNPs: Forming Decreasing QNPs - NPI Licensing; 2.6.4 Boolean Compounds; 2.6.4.1 D-Quantifiers; 2.6.4.2 A-Quantifiers; 2.6.5 Exception Phrases; 2.6.6 Only; 2.6.7 Partitives; 2.6.8 Quantifiers as Predicates; 2.6.8.1 Quantifiers as DPs; 2.6.9 Distribution; 2.6.9.1 Scope Ambiguities; 2.6.9.2 Numbers; 2.6.9.3 Forcing Collective/Distributive Readings
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.6.9.4 Modified Numerals in Object Position
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    ISBN: 9789400739321 , 1280798904 , 9781280798900
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 293
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Chang, Hasok, 1967 - Is water H2O?
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    Keywords: Science History ; Chemistry ; Science Philosophy ; Science Study and teaching ; Science, general ; Science History ; Chemistry ; Science Philosophy ; Science Study and teaching ; Wissenschaftsgeschichte ; Chemie ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Chemie ; Wasser ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie
    Abstract: Annotation, This book exhibits deep philosophical quandaries and intricacies of the historical development of science lying behind a simple and fundamental item of common sense in modern science, namely the composition of water as H2O. Three main phases of development are critically re-examined, covering the historical period from the 1760s to the 1860s: the Chemical Revolution (through which water first became recognized as a compound, not an element), early electrochemistry (by which waters compound nature was confirmed), and early atomic chemistry (in which water started out as HO and became H2O). In each case, the author concludes that the empirical evidence available at the time was not decisive in settling the central debates, and therefore the consensus that was reached was unjustified, or at least premature. This leads to a significant re-examination of the realism question in the philosophy of science, and a unique new advocacy for pluralism in science. Each chapter contains three layers, allowing readers to follow various parts of the book at their chosen level of depth and detail. The second major study in "complementary science", this book offers a rare combination of philosophy, history and science in a bid to improve scientific knowledge through history and philosophy of science
    Abstract: This book exhibits deep philosophical quandaries and intricacies of the historical development of science lying behind a simple and fundamental item of common sense in modern science, namely the composition of water as H2O. Three main phases of development are critically re-examined, covering the historical period from the 1760s to the 1860s: the Chemical Revolution (through which water first became recognized as a compound, not an element), early electrochemistry (by which waters compound nature was confirmed), and early atomic chemistry (in which water started out as HO and became H2O). In each case, the author concludes that the empirical evidence available at the time was not decisive in settling the central debates, and therefore the consensus that was reached was unjustified, or at least premature. This leads to a significant re-examination of the realism question in the philosophy of science, and a unique new advocacy for pluralism in science. Each chapter contains three layers, allowing readers to follow various parts of the book at their chosen level of depth and detail. The second major study in 'complementary science', this book offers a rare combination of philosophy, history and science in a bid to improve scientific knowledge through history and philosophy of science.
    Description / Table of Contents: Is Water H2O?; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; References; Chapter 1: Water and the Chemical Revolution; 1.1 The Premature Death of Phlogiston; 1.1.1 Joseph Priestley; 1.1.2 Water; 1.1.3 The Trouble with Lavoisier; 1.1.4 Could Water Be an Element?; 1.2 Why Phlogiston Should Have Lived; 1.2.1 Phlogiston vs. Oxygen; 1.2.1.1 Evaluating Systems of Practice; 1.2.1.2 Problem-Fields; 1.2.1.3 Divergent Epistemic Values; 1.2.1.4 Divergent Instantiations of the Same Value; 1.2.2 What Really Happened in the Chemical Revolution?; 1.2.3 Weights, Composition, and Chemical Practice
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.2.3.1 The Importance of Weight1.2.3.2 Compositionism vs. Principlism; 1.2.4 What Good Is Phlogiston?; 1.2.4.1 Benefits of Phlogiston; 1.2.4.2 Benefits of Phlogiston-Oxygen Interaction; 1.3 Choice, Rationality, and Alternatives; 1.3.1 Rationality; 1.3.2 Social Explanations of the Chemical Revolution; 1.3.3 Incommensurability; 1.3.4 Between Principlism and Compositionism; 1.3.5 Counterfactual History; References; Chapter 2: Electrolysis: Piles of Confusion and Poles of Attraction; 2.1 Electrolysis and Its Discontents; 2.1.1 The Distance Problem; 2.1.2 Electrolysis as Synthesis
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1.3 Lavoisierian Rescue-Hypotheses2.1.4 "No Winner" Is Not "No Win"; 2.2 Electrochemistry Undeterred; 2.2.1 How the Synthesis View Was Eliminated; 2.2.2 How the Lavoisierian Rescue-Hypotheses Fared; 2.2.3 The Character of Compound-Water Electrochemistry; 2.2.3.1 The Stabilization of Experiment; 2.2.3.2 The Diversification of Theory; 2.2.3.3 Pluralism: Benefits of Toleration and Interaction; 2.3 In the Depths of Electrolytic Solutions; 2.3.1 The Value of Studying Messy Science; 2.3.2 Was Priestley Deluded? A View from the Laboratory; 2.3.3 The Intricacies of Ion-Transport
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.4 Disputes on How the Battery Works2.3.5 Ritter and Romanticism; References; Chapter 3: HO or H2O? How Chemists Learned to Count Atoms; 3.1 How Do We Count What We Can't See?; 3.1.1 Unobservability and Circularity; 3.1.2 The Avogadro-Cannizzaro Myth; 3.1.3 Operationalism and Pragmatism in Atomic Chemistry; 3.1.4 From Underdetermination to Pluralism; 3.2 Variety and Convergence in Atomic Chemistry; 3.2.1 Operationalizing the Concept of the Chemical Atom; 3.2.1.1 Weighing by Equivalence; 3.2.1.2 Weighing by Combination; 3.2.1.3 Counting by Volumes; 3.2.1.4 Counting by Specific Heat
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2.1.5 Sorting by Electric Charge3.2.2 Competing Systems of Atomic Chemistry; 3.2.2.1 The Weight-Only System; 3.2.2.2 The Electrochemical Dualistic System; 3.2.2.3 The Physical Volume-Weight System; 3.2.2.4 The Substitution-Type System; 3.2.2.5 The Geometric-Structural System; 3.2.3 The H2O Consensus; 3.2.3.1 Chlorine-Substitution; 3.2.3.2 Atom-Fixing Power; 3.2.3.3 Valency, Realism and Compositionism; 3.2.4 Beyond Consensus; 3.3 From Chemical Complexity to Philosophical Subtlety; 3.3.1 Operationalism; 3.3.2 Realism; 3.3.3 Pragmatism; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 4: Active Realism and the Reality of H2O
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789400738898
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 418 p. 112 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 86
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax
    Abstract: This comprehensive treatment of several phenomena in Distributed Morphology explores a number of topics of high relevance to current linguistic theory. It examines the structure of the syntactic and postsyntactic components of word formation, and the role of hierarchical, featural, and linear restrictions within the auxiliary systems of several varieties of Basque. The postsyntactic component is modeled as a highly articulated system that accounts for what is shared and what exhibits variation across Basque dialects. The emphasis is on a principled ordering of postsyntactic operations based on their intrinsic properties, and on the relationship between representations in the Spellout component of grammar with other grammatical modules. The analyses in the book treat related phenomena in other languages and thereby have much to offer for a general morphology readership, as well as those interested in the syntax-morphology interface, the theory of Distributed Morphology, and Basque.
    Description / Table of Contents: Morphotactics; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; Basque Orthography; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Structure of Spellout; 1.1 Major Claims of This Book; 1.2 Distributed Morphology and the Division of Labor in Word Formation; 1.2.1 An Overview of the Serial and Modular Components; 1.2.2 An Overview of DM Elements and Operations; 1.3 The Basque Language; 1.3.1 Geographic and Demographic Background; 1.3.2 Orthography and Other Conventions in Representing Basque Sentences; 1.3.3 Sources of Data; 1.4 Brief Overview of Basque Syntax and Morphology; 1.4.1 Argument Structure and Case
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.4.2 The Syntax and Morphology of DPs1.4.3 The Syntax of Auxiliaries: T, C, and Agreement; 1.4.4 The Syntax of Auxiliaries and Pronominal Clitics; 1.4.5 Other Aspects of Verbal Syntax; 1.4.5.1 Finite Main Verbs; 1.4.5.2 Nonindicative Auxiliaries; 1.4.5.3 Colloquial/Formal Distinctions and Allocutive Morphology; 1.4.5.4 Binding-Theoretic Considerations; 1.5 Overview of the Book; Chapter 2: The Syntax of Cliticization and Agreement; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Clitic Placement; 2.2.1 Clitic Generation; 2.2.2 Clitic Movement; 2.2.3 Alternative Analyses of Cliticization
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2.4 Summary: The Syntax of Cliticization2.3 The Person-Case Constraint and Absolutive Promotion; 2.3.1 The Person-Case Constraint in Basque; 2.3.2 Absolutive Promotion; 2.3.3 Movement Verbs and PCC Effects; 2.3.4 Other PCC Repairs; 2.4 Agreement; 2.4.1 Multiple Agree; 2.4.2 Agree-Copy; 2.4.3 Complementizer Agreement; 2.4.4 Summary: The Syntax of Agreement; 2.5 Default Agreement; 2.6 Complementizers Within the Auxiliary Complex; 2.7 Conclusion: Cliticization vs. Agreement; Chapter 3: The Morphophonology of Basque Finite Auxiliaries; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Vocabulary Insertion
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2.1 Contextual Restrictions and Linear Adjacency3.2.2 Competition Among Vocabulary Entries; 3.3 Clitic Realization in the Morphophonology; 3.3.1 Clitics and Morpheme Order in the Auxiliary; 3.3.2 The Realization of Clitics; 3.3.3 Dative Clitics and Dative Flags; 3.3.4 Plural Fission; 3.3.5 On the Absence of Third Person Absolutive Clitics; 3.3.6 On Plural Morphology in Basque Finite Verbs; 3.4 The Realization of Agreement on T; 3.4.1 Allomorphy in the Context of Ergative and Dative Clitics; 3.4.2 Lekeitio; 3.4.3 Ondarru and Zamudio; 3.4.4 Multiple Agreement in Lekeitio; 3.4.5 Summary
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5 The Realization of Auxiliary Morphemes in Previous Accounts3.6 Phonological Rules; 3.6.1 Morpheme-Specific Rules; 3.6.2 Syllabification and Related Processes; 3.6.3 Other Phonological Processes; 3.6.4 Rule Interaction; 3.6.5 Rules that Apply Across Word Boundaries; 3.6.6 Summary; 3.7 Conclusion; Chapter 4: Deletion Operations Targeting Morphological Markedness; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Distinctions Among Types of Postsyntactic Deletion Operations; 4.3 Paradigmatic Markedness; 4.3.1 Formal/Colloquial Neutralization; 4.3.2 Paradigmatic Impoverishment in First Singular Clitics
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4 Syntagmatic Markedness
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    ISBN: 9789400730021
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 268p, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 85
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen, 1952 - Redefining indefinites
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    Keywords: Romance languages ; Semantics ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Romance languages ; Semantics ; Romanische Sprachen ; Nominalphrase ; Unbestimmtheit ; Französisch ; Nominalphrase ; Unbestimmtheit ; Französisch ; Indefinitpronomen ; Französisch ; Indefiniter Relativsatz ; Indefinitpronomen ; Syntax ; Semantik
    Abstract: This volume explores the interpretation of indefinites and the constraints on their distribution by paying particular attention to key issues in the interface between syntax and semantics: the relation between the semantic properties of indefinite determiners and the denotation of indefinite DPs, their scope, and their behaviour in generic and conditional sentences. Examples come from French, other Romance languages and English. Central to the proposed analyses is a distinction between two types of entities, individualized entities and amounts. Weak indefinites are analyzed as existential generalized quantifiers over amounts and strong indefinites as either Skolem terms or generalized quantifiers over individualized entities. The up-to-date review of the literature and the new falsifiable proposals contained in this book will be of particular interest to linguistics students and scholars interested in the cross-linguistic semantics of indefinites.
    Description / Table of Contents: Redefining Indefinites; Foreword; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Why Indefinites?; 1.1 Typology of DPs; 1.1.1 Referential DPs; 1.1.2 Quantified DPs; 1.1.2.1 Tripartite Structures; 1.1.2.2 Generalized Quanti fi ers; 1.1.3 Indefinite DPs; 1.2 The Representation of Inde fi nite DPs; 1.2.1 Indefinites and Existential Quanti fi cation; 1.2.2 Indefinites as Free Variables; 1.2.3 Indefinites as Choice Functions; 1.2.4 Indefinites as Skolem Terms; 1.2.5 Indefinites and Properties; 1.2.6 Indefinites as Existential Generalized Quanti fi ers over Amounts; 1.2.7 Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.3 Semantic Properties of Nominal Determiners1.3.1 Conservativity; 1.3.2 Intersectivity; 1.3.3 Symmetry; 1.3.4 Proportional Determiners; 1.3.5 Monotonicity; 1.3.5.1 Monotone Increasing with respect to A; 1.3.5.2 Monotone Increasing with respect to B; 1.3.5.3 Monotone Decreasing with respect to A; 1.3.5.4 Monotone Decreasing with Respect to B; 1.3.6 The Semantic Characterization of Inde fi nites; 1.4 The Interpretation of Inde fi nites; 1.4.1 The Interpretation of Inde fi nites and Presupposition; 1.4.1.1 Assertion and Presupposition
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.4.1.2 Presupposition of Existence and Assertion of Existence1.4.1.3 Presupposition and Partitivity; 1.4.2 Distributive and Collective Readings; 1.4.3 Scope Ambiguities; 1.4.4 Specific/Non-specific/Generic Readings; 1.5 Conclusion; Chapter 2: Bare Noun Phrases; 2.1 Bare Noun Phrases across Languages; 2.1.1 An Overview of Crosslinguistic Variation; 2.1.2 The Distribution of Bare NPs in Romanian, Spanish and Catalan; 2.1.3 The Syntactic Structure of Bare NPs; 2.2 Bare Plurals Are not the Plural Counterparts of Singular Indefinites; 2.2.1 Opacity; 2.2.2 Scope; 2.2.3 Aspect
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2.4 Anaphoric Relations2.3 Count Bare Singulars Are not the Singular Counterparts of Bare Plurals; 2.3.1 Distribution; 2.3.2 Crosslinguistic Variation; 2.3.3 Interpretation: Narrow Scope with respect to Negation; 2.3.4 Conclusions; 2.4 The Semantics of Bare Plurals; 2.4.1 Bare Plurals and Reference to Kinds; 2.4.1.1 The Carlsonian Analysis; 2.4.1.2 Bare Plurals in Romance Languages Are Not Kind-Referring; 2.4.2 Bare Plurals and Property Denotation; 2.4.2.1 Existential Predicates; 2.4.2.2 Accounting for Carlson's Observations Regarding Scope; 2.4.2.3 Problems
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4.2.4 The Property Analysis of Count Bare Singulars2.4.3 Bare Plurals and VP-level Existential Closure; 2.4.3.1 VP-Level Existential Closure and Scope; 2.4.3.2 VP-Level Existential Closure and Aspect; 2.4.3.3 Problems with Generic Objects; 2.4.4 Bare Plurals as Amount-Referring Expressions; 2.4.4.1 Individuals vs. Amounts; 2.4.4.2 Bare Plurals as Existential Generalized Quantifiers over Amounts; 2.5 Existential Predicates and Entity Predicates; 2.5.1 Individual-Level and Stage-Level Predicates; 2.5.2 Space Localization; 2.5.3 Some Apparent Problems
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.6 French Indefinites Headed by du/de la/des
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    ISBN: 9789400743960 , 1280799161 , 9781280799167
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 46p, digital)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Education
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    Keywords: Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: Cecilia Marcano
    Abstract: It goes without saying that atomic structure, including its dual wave-particle nature, cannot be demonstrated in the classroom. Thus, for most science teachers, especially those in physics and chemistry, the textbook is their key resource and their students' core source of information. Science education historiography recognizes the role played by the history and philosophy of science in developing the content of our textbooks, and with this in mind, the authors analyze more than 120 general chemistry textbooks published in the USA, based on criteria derived from a historical reconstruction of wave-particle duality. They come to some revealing conclusions, including the fact that very few textbooks discussed issues such as the suggestion, by both Einstein and de Broglie, and before conclusive experimental evidence was available, that wave-particle duality existed. Other large-scale omissions included de Broglie's prescription for observing this duality, and the importance of the Davisson-Germer experiments, as well as the struggle to interpret the experimental data they were collecting. Also untouched was the background to the role played by Schrödinger in developing de Broglie's ideas. The authors argue that rectifying these deficiencies will arouse students' curiosity by giving them the opportunity to engage creatively with the content of science curricula. They also assert that it isn't just the experimental data in science that matters, but the theoretical insights and unwonted inspirations, too. In addition, the controversies and discrepancies in the theoretical and experimental record are key drivers in understanding the development of science as we know it today.
    Description / Table of Contents: Reconstruction of Wave-Particle Dualityand its Implications for General ChemistryTextbooks; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Reconstruction of Wave-Particle Duality and its Implications for General Chemistry Textbooks; Abstract; Introduction; A Brief Review of Textbook Analyses Based on a History and Philosophy of Science Perspective; Historical Reconstruction of Wave-Particle Duality; Wave-Particle Duality and its Origins; Experimental Evidence to Support de Broglie's Theory; De Broglie's Reputation as an Obstacle in the Acceptance of his Theory; Einstein's Support of de Broglie's Ideas
    Description / Table of Contents: Why was it Schrödinger who Developed de Broglie's Ideas?Criteria for Evaluation of General Chemistry Textbooks; Procedure for Applying the Criteria; Criteria for Selection of Textbooks; Evaluation of General Chemistry Textbooks: Results and Discussion; Comparison of Textbooks Published in Different Time Periods; Conclusions and Educational Implications; Narrative in Future General Chemistry Textbooks; Uncertainty in Scientific Progress; Role of Historical Reconstructions; Classroom Activities: Going Beyond the Historical Reconstruction
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix A ist of General Chemistry Textbooks Analyzed in this Study (n = 128)Appendix B Reliability of Evaluation of General Chemistry Text books Basedon Inter-Rater Agreement; References;
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    ISBN: 9789400743878
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 253 p. 22 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 87
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    Keywords: Chinese language ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Chinese language ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Kantonesisch ; Partikel ; Quantifizierung
    Abstract: Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong and its neighboring province, has an unusually rich repertoire of verbal particles. This volume significantly augments the academic literature on their semantics, focusing on three affixal quantifiers, -saai, -hoi and -maai. The author shows how these verbal suffixes display a unique interplay of syntax and semantics: used in a sentence with no focus, they quantify items flexibly, according to an accessibility hierarchy; with focus, focus comes into effect after syntactic selection. This fresh and compelling perspective in the study of particles and quantification is the first in-depth analysis of Cantonese verbal suffixes. It compares the languageâs affixal quantification to the alternative determiner and adverbial quantifiers. The bookâs syntax-semantics mapping geography deploys both descriptive and theoretical approaches, making it an essential resource for researchers studying the nexus of syntax and semantics, as well as Cantonese itself
    Abstract: Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong and its neighboring province, has an unusually rich repertoire of verbal particles. This volume significantly augments the academic literature on their semantics, focusing on three affixal quantifiers, -saai, -hoi and -maai. The author shows how these verbal suffixes display a unique interplay of syntax and semantics: used in a sentence with no focus, they quantify items flexibly, according to an accessibility hierarchy; with focus, focus comes into effect after syntactic selection. This fresh and compelling perspective in the study of particles and quantification is the first in-depth analysis of Cantonese verbal suffixes. It compares the languages affixal quantification to the alternative determiner and adverbial quantifiers. The books syntax-semantics mapping geography deploys both descriptive and theoretical approaches, making it an essential resource for researchers studying the nexus of syntax and semantics, as well as Cantonese itself.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification; Abstract; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Problem; 1.2 Major Ideas to Be Proposed; 1.3 Organization; Chapter 2: Previous Analyses on Quantification and Cantonese Verbal Suffixes; 2.1 Introduction: Quantification in Natural Language; 2.2 Generalized Quantifiers; 2.3 D-Quantification and A-Quantification; 2.3.1 D-Quantification: Assimilating A-Quantification with D-Quantification; 2.3.2 A-Quantification; 2.3.3 Tripartite Structures
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.4 Distinguishing D-Quantification from A-Quantification: The Role of Focus in D-Quantification and A-Quantification2.4 Where Does Affixal Quanti fi cation Stand? A- or D-Quantification?; 2.4.1 Previous Literature of Af fi xal Quanti fi cation; 2.4.2 Verbal Suffixes in Cantonese: What Is Special About Cantonese?; 2.4.2.1 An Overview: A Rich Inventory of Verbal Suffixes in Cantonese; 2.4.2.2 Morpho-Syntactic Properties of Cantonese Affixal Quantifiers; 2.5 Previous Analyses of Quantifying Verbal Suf fi xes in Cantonese - - hoi , - maai and - saai
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.5.1 Previous Analyses of - hoi and Their Limitations2.5.1.1 - Hoi as a Progressive Marker; 2.5.1.2 - Hoi as a Continuative Marker; 2.5.1.3 - Hoi as a Habitual Marker; 2.5.2 Previous Analyses of - maai and Their Limitations; 2.5.2.1 - Maai Marks an "Extension"; 2.5.2.2 - Maai Marks the Completion of an Event; 2.5.2.3 - Maai Marks an "Accumulation"; 2.5.2.4 - Maai and " lin … je "; 2.5.3 Previous Analyses of - saai and Their Limitations; 2.5.3.1 The Definiteness/Specificity of the Associated NPs; 2.5.3.2 The Telicity Requirement of - saai; 2.5.3.3 The Divisibility Requirement of - saai
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.5.3.4 Two Derived Meanings of - saai2.5.3.5 Quantification of - saai : - saai as a Nominal Quantifier or an Anti-quantifier; - Saai as a Nominal Quantifier (cf. T. Lee 1994, 1995); - Saai as an A-Quantifier Over Events or as an Anti-quantifier; - Saai Is Neither an Event Quantifier Nor a Pure Nominal Quantifier; Chapter 3: The Quantification Accessibility Hierarchy for Affixal Quantifiers; 3.1 - Saai , - hoi and - maai as Quantifiers; 3.2 A Selectional Restriction of Universal Quantifier - saai : The Part Structure Requirement
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3 A Selectional Restriction of Generic Quantifier - hoi : A Plurality Condition for Affixal Quantifiers3.3.1 Does - hoi Require an Event or a Situation Variable?; 3.3.2 A Plurality Condition for Affixal Quantifiers; 3.3.2.1 A Plurality of Events or Situations; 3.3.2.2 A Plurality of Events Given by the Subevent Property or [+Part] Objects; 3.3.2.3 Plurality Satis fi ed by a Set of Time Points; 3.4 A Selectional Restriction of Additive Quantifier - maai : The Definiteness Requirement; 3.4.1 - Maai Imposes No Restriction on Its Co-occurring Predicate
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4.2 - Maai Requires a [+Definite] Argument
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    ISBN: 9789400739802 , 1280798963 , 9781280798962
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 350p. 44 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: Mijung Kim
    Abstract: In contemporary society, science constitutes a significant part of human life in that it impacts on how people experience and understand the world and themselves. The rapid advances in science and technology, newly established societal and cultural norms and values, and changes in the climate and environment, as well as, the depletion of natural resources all greatly impact the lives of children and youths, and hence their ways of learning, viewing the world, experiencing phenomena around them and interacting with others. These changes challenge science educators to rethink the epistemology and pedagogy in science classrooms today as the practice of science education needs to be proactive and relevant to students and prepare them for life in the present and in the future. Featuring contributions from highly experienced and celebrated science educators, as well as research perspectives from Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia, this book addresses theoretical and practical examples in science education that, on the one hand, plays a key role in our understanding of the world, and yet, paradoxically, now acknowledges a growing number of uncertainties of knowledge about the world. The material is in four sections that cover the learning and teaching of science from science literacy to multiple representations; science teacher education; the use of innovations and new technologies in science teaching and learning; and science learning in informal settings including outdoor environmental learning activities. Acknowledging the issues and challenges in science education, this book hopes to generate collaborative discussions among scholars, researchers, and educators to develop critical and creative ways of science teaching to improve and enrich the lives of our children and youths.
    Description / Table of Contents: Issues and Challenges in Science Education Research; Contents; Chapter 1: Issues and Challenges in Science Education Research; 1.1 Science Education Research; 1.2 The Structure of the Book; References; Chapter 2: Science Literacy for All: More than a Slogan, Logo, or Rally Flag!; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Background; 2.3 Disciplinary Literacy in Science Education Reforms; 2.4 Derived Sense of Scientific Literacy; 2.4.1 Big Ideas and Unifying Concepts; 2.4.2 Nature of Science; 2.4.3 Scientific Inquiry and Technological Design; 2.4.4 Relationships Among Science, Technology, Society, and Environment
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.5 Fundamental Sense of Scientific Literacy2.5.1 Cognitive and Metacognitive Abilities; 2.5.2 Critical Thinking/Plausible Reasoning; 2.5.3 Habits of Mind; 2.5.4 Scientific Language; 2.5.4.1 Talking-Listening in Science Literacy; 2.5.4.2 Writing-Reading in Science Literacy; 2.5.4.3 Representing-Interpreting in Science Literacy; 2.5.5 Information Communication Technologies; 2.6 Closing Remarks; 2.6.1 Relations Between Language in Science and Understanding Science; 2.6.2 Promising Classroom Practices; 2.6.3 Second-Generation Science Education Reforms; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3: Moving the Essence of Inquiry into the Classroom: Engaging Teachers and Students in Authentic Science3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Theoretical Framework; 3.2.1 Social-Constructivist Perspectives of Learning; 3.2.2 Authenticity; 3.3 Building upon a Research Agenda Focused on Inquiry; 3.3.1 The Nature of the Studies; 3.3.2 Assertions from These Studies; 3.4 The Fossil Finders Project: Research to Practice; 3.5 Supporting Teachers Through Professional Development; 3.6 Collecting Multiple Forms of Data; 3.7 Teachers' Changes in Views and Knowledge and Practice
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.8 Teachers Translating Their Views to Their Classrooms3.8.1 Kristen's Teaching Practice: Pre; 3.8.2 Kristen's Teaching Practice: Post; 3.9 Impact on Student Learning of Scientific Inquiry; 3.10 Conclusion; Appendix; Lesson Description; An Excerpt of the Lesson; Data Analysis; Explain; References; Chapter 4: Conceptual Change: Still a Powerful Framework for Improving the Practice of Science Instruction; 4.1 Introductory Remarks; 4.2 Theoretical Developments in the Area of Conceptual Change; 4.2.1 Students' Conceptions: Towards Multiple Conceptual Changes
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.2 Teachers' Conceptions: A Major Obstacle for Efficient Teaching4.2.3 The 'Classical' Conceptual Change Approach; 4.2.4 Affective Variables; 4.2.5 Constructivist Views and Conceptual Change; 4.2.6 Towards More Inclusive Conceptual Change Views; 4.3 Efficiency of Conceptual Change-Oriented Instructional Design; 4.4 Embedding Conceptual Change into Models of Instructional Planning; 4.5 Conceptual Change and Instructional Practice; 4.6 Conceptual Change and Teacher Professional Development; 4.7 Challenges for Future Research and Development; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: Multimodality in Problem Solving
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789048190263
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 492p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi, 1961 - Handbook of descriptive linguistic fieldwork
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Linguistik ; Feldforschung ; Linguistik ; Feldforschung
    Abstract: The Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork is the most comprehensive reference on linguistic fieldwork on the market bringing together all the reader needs to carry out successful linguistic fieldwork. Based on the experiences of two veteran linguistic fieldworkers and advice from more than a twenty active fieldwork researchers, this handbook provides an encyclopedic review of current publications on linguistic fieldwork and surveys past and present approaches and solutions to problems in the field, and the historical, political, and social variables correlating with fieldwork in different areas of the world. The discussion of the ethical dimensions of fieldwork, as well as what constitutes the 'typical' linguistic fieldwork setting or consultant is explored from multiple perspectives relevant to fieldwork on every continent. Included is information omitted in most other texts on the subject such as the collection, representation, management, and methods of extracting grammatical information from discourse and conversational data as well as the relationship between questionnaire-based elicitation, text-based elicitation, and philology, and the need for combinations of these methods. The book is useful before, during and after linguistic field trips since it provides extensive practical macro and micro organization and planning fieldwork tips as well as a handy sketch of major typological features for use in linguistic analysis. Comprehensive references are provided at the end of each chapter as resources relevant to the reader's particular interests.
    Description / Table of Contents: Handbook of DescriptiveLinguistic Fieldwork; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter Synopsis of a Handbookof Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork; Chapter 3: The History of Linguistic Fieldwork; Chapter 4: Choosing a Language; Chapter 5: Field Preparation: Philological, Practical, and Psychological; Chapter 6: Fieldwork Ethics: The Rights and Responsibilities of the Fieldworker; Chapter 7: Native Speakers and Fieldworkers; Chapter 8: Planning Sessions, Note Taking, and Data Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 9: Lexicography in FieldworkChapter 10: Phonetic and Phonological Fieldwork; Chapter 11: What to Expect in Morphosyntactic Typology and Terminology; Chapter 12: Grammar Gathering Techniques; Chapter 13: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Text Collection; Index;
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789400719200
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 43p, digital)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Education 2
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: Arelys Maza
    Abstract: Research in science education has recognized the importance of history and philosophy of science (HPS). Nature of science (NOS) is considered to be an essential part of HPS with important implications for teaching science. The role played by textbooks in developing students' informed conceptions of NOS has been a source of considerable interest for science educators. In some parts of the world, textbooks become the curriculum and determine to a great extent what is taught and learned in the classroom. Given this background and interest, this monograph has evaluated NOS in university level gene
    Description / Table of Contents: Nature of Science in GeneralChemistry Textbooks; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Nature of Science in General Chemistry Textbooks; Appendix B; Appendix A;
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789048125289 , 1282839225 , 9781282839229
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (300p, digital)
    Edition: 1
    Series Statement: Classics in Science Education 2
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching
    Abstract: This book includes a brief biography of Paul Brandwein, but its most vital contribution are the essays about Paul F. Brandwein's teaching that encouraged a number of the high school students he taught between 1944 and 1954 at Forest Hills High School in New York to become some of America's most important scientists. In addition to the individual essays, there are cross-sectional study of the surveys returned by the 29 "Brandwein alumni," located by Richard Lewontin, James Friend, the late Walter Rosen, and Deborah Fort over the years since Paul Brandwein's death in 1994. Creating Scientists mi
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Part I Remembering Paul F. Brandwein: Essays; Brandwein Alumni; Turning a Dream (Deftly, Subtly, and Effectively) into Reality; How Dr. Paul Brandwein's Mentorship and Guidance AffectedMy Scientific Interests and Career; How to Win Converts and Influence Students; Paul F. Brandwein's Influence on My Life: The Essential Spark; Paul Brandwein's Influence on My Life; Brief Encounters, Lasting Effects; One Year; Research at a Tender Age; Intellectually Exciting Years at Forest Hills High School; Encouraging the Uncertain; Saturdays at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens; Question Everything
    Description / Table of Contents: One Class Was EnoughScience Education and Beyond: Colleagues; Paul F. Brandwein-A Personal Reflection; Paul Brandwein and the National Science Teachers Association; Dr. Paul F. Brandwein: Messages on Teaching and Learning forAll Educators; Some Reflections on Paul F. Brandwein's Impact on Science Education; Paul F. Brandwein and Conservation Education; Environmental Education and Paul F. Brandwein's Ekistics; Watershed Education for Sustainable Development; The Paul F-Brandwein Institute: Continuing a Legacyin Conservation Education
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II Paul F. Brandwein in His Own Words - Reprints 1955-1995The Gifted Student as Future Scientist; Science Talent: In an Ecology of Achievement; Science Talent in the Young Expressed Within Ecologies ofAchievement: Executive Summary; Part III The Surveys; Remembrances from More than a Half-Century Back: The Surveys; Part IV Appendixes; Appendix A: The Survey; Appendix B: Bibliographies of the Works of Paul F. Brandwein; Index
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