Are Science And Mathematics Socially Constructed

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Are Science And Mathematics Socially Constructed

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Author : Richard C. Brown
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2009

Are Science And Mathematics Socially Constructed written by Richard C. Brown and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Mathematics categories.

This book is a history, analysis, and criticism of what the author calls OC postmodern interpretations of scienceOCO (PIS) and the closely related OC sociology of scientific knowledgeOCO (SSK). This movement traces its origin to Thomas Kuhn''s revolutionary work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), but is more extreme. It believes that science is a OC social constructionOCO, having little to do with nature, and is determined by contextual forces such as the race, class, gender of the scientist, laboratory politics, or the needs of the military industrial complex.

Making 20th Century Science

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Author : Stephen G. Brush
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015

Making 20th Century Science written by Stephen G. Brush and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Science categories.

Historically, the scientific method has been said to require proposing a theory, making a prediction of something not already known, testing the prediction, and giving up the theory (or substantially changing it) if it fails the test. A theory that leads to several successful predictions is more likely to be accepted than one that only explains what is already known but not understood. This process is widely treated as the conventional method of achieving scientific progress, and was used throughout the twentieth century as the standard route to discovery and experimentation. But does science really work this way? In Making 20th Century Science, Stephen G. Brush discusses this question, as it relates to the development of science throughout the last century. Answering this question requires both a philosophically and historically scientific approach, and Brush blends the two in order to take a close look at how scientific methodology has developed. Several cases from the history of modern physical and biological science are examined, including Mendeleev's Periodic Law, Kekule's structure for benzene, the light-quantum hypothesis, quantum mechanics, chromosome theory, and natural selection. In general it is found that theories are accepted for a combination of successful predictions and better explanations of old facts. Making 20th Century Science is a large-scale historical look at the implementation of the scientific method, and how scientific theories come to be accepted.

Three Plays Of Maureen Hunter

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Author : Hunter, Maureen
language : en
Publisher: OIBooks-Libros
Release Date : 2003

Three Plays Of Maureen Hunter written by Hunter, Maureen and has been published by OIBooks-Libros this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Drama categories.

Book is clean and tight. No writing in text. Like New

Proof And Proving In Mathematics Education

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Author : Gila Hanna
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-06-14

Proof And Proving In Mathematics Education written by Gila Hanna and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-14 with Education categories.

*THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE AS OPEN ACCESS BOOK ON SPRINGERLINK* One of the most significant tasks facing mathematics educators is to understand the role of mathematical reasoning and proving in mathematics teaching, so that its presence in instruction can be enhanced. This challenge has been given even greater importance by the assignment to proof of a more prominent place in the mathematics curriculum at all levels. Along with this renewed emphasis, there has been an upsurge in research on the teaching and learning of proof at all grade levels, leading to a re-examination of the role of proof in the curriculum and of its relation to other forms of explanation, illustration and justification. This book, resulting from the 19th ICMI Study, brings together a variety of viewpoints on issues such as: The potential role of reasoning and proof in deepening mathematical understanding in the classroom as it does in mathematical practice. The developmental nature of mathematical reasoning and proof in teaching and learning from the earliest grades. The development of suitable curriculum materials and teacher education programs to support the teaching of proof and proving. The book considers proof and proving as complex but foundational in mathematics. Through the systematic examination of recent research this volume offers new ideas aimed at enhancing the place of proof and proving in our classrooms.

Social Constructivism As A Philosophy Of Mathematics

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Author : Paul Ernest
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01

Social Constructivism As A Philosophy Of Mathematics written by Paul Ernest and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Philosophy categories.

Extends the ideas of social constructivism to the philosophy of mathematics, developing a powerful critique of traditional absolutist conceptions of mathematics, and proposing a reconceptualization of the philosophy of mathematics.

The Social Construction Of What

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Author : Ian Hacking
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2000-11-15

The Social Construction Of What written by Ian Hacking and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-15 with Science categories.

Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Ian Hacking’s book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality—especially regarding the status of the natural sciences.

Philosophy Of Science

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language : en
Publisher: PediaPress
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Philosophy Of Science written by and has been published by PediaPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.

Thinking Like A Mall

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Author : Steven Vogel
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2015-05

Thinking Like A Mall written by Steven Vogel and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05 with Business & Economics categories.

A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the built environment. Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached “the end of nature,” as Bill McKibben and other environmental thinkers have declared, what is there left to protect? In Thinking like a Mall, Steven Vogel argues that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the “environment”—that is, the world that actually surrounds us, which is always a built world, the only one that we inhabit. We need to think not so much like a mountain (as Aldo Leopold urged) as like a mall. Shopping malls, too, are part of the environment and deserve as much serious consideration from environmental thinkers as do mountains. Vogel argues provocatively that environmental philosophy, in its ethics, should no longer draw a distinction between the natural and the artificial and, in its politics, should abandon the idea that something beyond human practices (such as “nature”) can serve as a standard determining what those practices ought to be. The appeal to nature distinct from the built environment, he contends, may be not merely unhelpful to environmental thinking but in itself harmful to that thinking. The question for environmental philosophy is not “how can we save nature?” but rather “what environment should we inhabit, and what practices should we engage in to help build it?”

Issues Of Curriculum Reform In Science Mathematics And Higher Order Thinking Across The Disciplines

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Author : Ronald D. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 1994-12

Issues Of Curriculum Reform In Science Mathematics And Higher Order Thinking Across The Disciplines written by Ronald D. Anderson and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-12 with Education categories.

An extensive review of the literature in the area of curriculum reform in science, math. & higher order thinking across the disciplines. Extensive bibliography.

Issues Of Curriculum Reform In Science Mathematics And Higher Order Thinking Across The Disciplines

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

Issues Of Curriculum Reform In Science Mathematics And Higher Order Thinking Across The Disciplines written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Critical thinking categories.