ISBN: 9789048169580

Currents such as epistemological and social constructivism, postmodernism, and certain forms of multiculturalism that had become fashionable within science education circles in the last d… Meer...

Currents such as epistemological and social constructivism, postmodernism, and certain forms of multiculturalism that had become fashionable within science education circles in the last decades lost sight of critical inquiry as the core aim of education. In this book we develop an account of education that places critical inquiry at the core of education in general and science education in particular. Since science constitutes the paradigm example of critical inquiry, we explain the nature of science, paying particular attention to scientific methodology and scientific modeling and at the same time showing their relevance in the science classroom. We defend a universalist, rationalist, and objectivist account of science against epistemological and social constructivist views, postmodernist approaches and epistemic multiculturalist accounts., Springer<

2005, ISBN: 9048169585

[EAN: 9789048169580], New book, [SC: 6.99], [PU: Springer Netherlands], 502 pages. 9.45x6.30x1.14 inches. In Stock., Books

2011, ISBN: 9789048169580

Paperback, New., 490 p. Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education , 28. XIV, 490 p. Intended for professional and scholarly audience., Dordrecht, [PU: Springer]

2011, ISBN: 9789048169580

Paperback, New., Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education . XIV, 490 p. Intended for professional and scholarly audience., Dordrecht, [PU: Springer]