(Post) Modern Science (Education) : Propositions and Alternative Paths,9780820449104

(Post) Modern Science (Education) : Propositions and Alternative Paths

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ISBN13: 9780820449104
ISBN10: 0820449105
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-12-01
Publisher(s): Peter Lang Pub Inc
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Summary

These original essays offer new perspectives for science educators, curriculum theorists, and cultural critics on science education, French post-structural thought, and the science debates. Included in this book are chapters on the work of Bruno Latour, Michel Serres, and Jean Baudrillard, plus chapters on postmodern approaches to science education and critiques of modern scientific assumptions in curriculum development.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction (Post) Modern Science (Education): Propositions and Alternative Paths 1(22)
John A. Weaver
Part One Science as Curriculum Theory
23(88)
Marla Morris
The Object(s) of Culture: Bruno Latour and the Relationship between Science and Culture
25(16)
William E. Doll, Jr.
France Feng
Stephen Petrina
Bachelard as Constructivist
41(16)
Eva Krugly-Smolska
The Simulacra of Science Education
57(38)
David W. Blades
Serres Bugs the Curriculum
95(16)
Marla Morris
Part Two Pastiche Science: Bringing Cultural Studies of Science to Education and Education to the Cultural Studies of Science
111(132)
Peter Appelbaum
Science Education Through Situated Knowledge
129(18)
Matthew Weinstein
Genre Analysis as a Way of Understanding Pedagogy in Mathematics Education
147(30)
Susan Gerofsky
A Feminist Revisioning of Infinity: Small Speculations on a Large Subject
177(16)
Elaine V. Howes
Bill Rosenthal
Cookbook Classrooms; Cognitive Capitulation
193(20)
Dave Pushkin
Modernist Traditions in Supervision and the Illusions of Science and Objectivity
213(30)
Jeffrey Glanz
Part Three Pedagogies of the Cultural Studies of Science
243(58)
John A. Weaver
Karen Anijar
Teaching in the (Crash) Zone: Manifesting Cultural Studies in Science Education
249(26)
Noel Gough
Pedagogies of Science (In)formed by Global Perspectives: Encouraging Strong Objectivity in Classrooms
275(26)
Annette Gough
Contributors 301(4)
Index 305

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