| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 426 pages) : illustrations |
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Inside technology |
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Inside technology.
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| Contents |
Introduction, Moving pedagogy from the periphery to the center / David Kaiser -- Beilstein unbound : the pedagogical unraveling of a man and his Handbuch / Michael D. Gordin -- Making tools travel : pedagogy and the transfer of skills in postwar theoretical physics / David Kaiser -- Pedagogy of diminishing returns : scientific involution across three generations of nuclear weapons science / Hugh Gusterson -- Fear, shunning, and valuelessness : controversy over the use of "Cambridge" mathematics in late Victorian electro-technology / Graeme Gooday -- Geist in the institute : the production of quantum physicists in 1930s Japan / Kenji Ito -- Instruments in training : the growth of American probe microscopy in the 1980s / Cyrus C.M. Moody -- Power of didactic writings : French chemistry textbooks of the nineteenth century / Antonio García-Belmar, José Bertomeu-Sánchez, and Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent -- "Think less about foundations" : a short course on Landau and Lifshitz's Course of Theoretical Physics / Karl Hall -- In the "context of pedagogy" : teaching strategy and theory change in quantum chemistry / Buhm Soon Park -- Foundations of a canon : Kohlrausch's Practical Physics / Kathryn M. Olesko -- Generating high-energy physics in Japan : moral imperatives of a future pluperfect / Sharon Traweek -- Conclusion, Kuhn, Foucault, and the power of pedagogy / Andrew Warwick and David Kaiser |
| Summary |
"Pedagogy and the Practice of Science provides the first sustained examination of how scientists and engineers training shapes their research and careers. The wide-ranging essays move pedagogy to the center of science, studies, asking where questions of scientists' training should fit into our studies of the history, sociology, and anthropology of science. Chapter authors examine the deep interrelations among training, learning, and research and consider how the form of scientific training affects the content of science. They investigate types of training - in cultural and political settings as varied as Victorian Britain, interwar Japan, Stalinist Russia, and Cold War America - and the resulting scientific practices |
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The fields they examine span the modern physical sciences, ranging from theoretical physics to electrical engineering and from nuclear weapons science to quantum chemistry."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 19th century
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Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century
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Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century
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Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century
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SCIENCE -- Study & Teaching.
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Science -- Philosophy
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Science -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kaiser, David
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| LC no. |
2004061364 |
| ISBN |
9780262276689 |
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0262276682 |
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1423729978 |
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9781423729976 |
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