Table of Contents

One: History Of Science, Education And Culture.- 1. History in Science Education, with Cautionary Tales about the Agreement of Measurement and Theory.- 2. Scientific Culture and Public Education.- 3. Galileo and the Rhetoric of Relativity.- 4. Fostering the History of Science in American Science Education.- 5. Nature-of-Science Literacy in Benchmarks and Standards: Post-modern/Relativist or Modern/Realist?.- 6. The Epic Narrative of Intellectual Culture as a Framework for Curricular Coherence.- 7. History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science in Science Education: Results from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study.- Two: Foundational Issues In Science Education.- 8. Instrumentality, Hermeneutics and the Place of Science in the School Curriculum.- 9. The Primacy of Cognition - or of Perception? A Phenomenological Critique of the Theoretical Bases of Science Education.- 10. Constructivism in School Science Education: Powerful Model or the Most Dangerous Intellectual Tendency?.- 11. Philosophy of Chemistry: An Emerging Field with Implications for Chemistry Education.- 12. Can the Theory of Narratives Help Science Teachers be Better Storytellers?.- 13. Values in Science: An Educational Perspective.- 14. Which Way is Up? Thomas Kuhn’s Analogy to Conceptual Development in Childhood.- 15. Saving Kuhn from the Sociologists of Science.- Three: History, Philosophy And Physics Education.- 16. The Effect of a History-Based Course in Optics on Students’ Views about Science.- 17. Scientific Controversies in Teaching Science: The Case of Volta.- 18. Newton and Colour: The Complex Interplay of Theory and Experiment.- 19. Methodology and Politics in Science: The Fate of Huygens’ 1673 Proposal of the Seconds Pendulum as an International Standard of Length, and SomeEducational Suggestions.- 20. Reconstructing the Basic Concepts of General Relativity from an Educational and Cultural Point of View.- 21. The Contribution of the History of Physics in Physics Education: A Review.- Contributors.- Name Index.

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