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History of Mathematics and History of Science [PDF]
Isis, 2011 This essay argues that the diversity of the history of mathematics community in the United Kingdom has influenced the development of the subject and is a significant factor behind the different concerns often evident in work on the history of mathematics when compared with that of historians of science.
Mann, Tony
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The History of Science and the History of Knowledge
KNOW A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, 2017 The article examines the state of the history of science as a discipline and its objectives in the context of its origins and current transformations. The establishment of this discipline and its assumptions about the nature of science together with its ...
L. Daston
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Report on a Boston University Conference December 7-8, 2012 on 'How Can the History and Philosophy of Science Contribute to Contemporary U.S. Science Teaching?' [PDF]
, 2014 This is an editorial report on the outcomes of an international conference sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) (REESE-1205273) to the School of Education at Boston University and the Center for Philosophy and History of ...
Benétreau-Dupin, Yann, Garik, Peter
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What Can Stories on History of Science Give to Students? Thoughts of Science Teachers Candidates
International Journal of Instruction, 2019 The aim of this study is to determine history of science related stories known by candidate science teachers and their opinions about educational values of those stories. The research is a descriptive study. Data was collected by open ended questions. In
Canan Laçin-Şimşek
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Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2018 The focus of this article is to expand María del Mar Aragón, José Antonio Acevedo-Díaz and Antonio García-Carmona’s paper “Prospective Biology teachers’ understanding of the nature of science through an analysis of the historical case of Semmelweis and ...
H. Gandolfi
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Women in the History of Science
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, 2019 From the EditorSpecial Issue – Women in Sciences: Historiography of Science and History of Science – on the Work of Women in Sciences and ...
M. Condé
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On the Pursuit of Academic Research across all the Disciplines
Journal of Big History, 2017 This article is about similarities and differences in the pursuit of academic research across all the disciplines. It forms part of my efforts in the field of big history to find a common language and understanding for all its practitioners, both big ...
Fred Spier
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The Paranoid Style in American History of Science [PDF]
, 2012 Historian Richard Hofstadter’s observations about American cold-war politics are used to contextualize Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and argue that substantive claims about the nature of scientific knowledge and scientific change ...
Reisch, George
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History of Science and Science Education
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, 2018 From the ...
M. Condé, M. Salomon
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Humanising the nature of science: an analysis of the science curriculum in Norway
International Journal of Science Education, 2022 If students are to acquire deep learning in science, they need to know about the nature of science (NOS), particularly not only the cognitive-epistemic but also the social-institutional aspects of NOS.
Sonja M. Mork +4 more
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