Title Rethinking science education : philosophical perspectives / by Roland M. Schulz, Imaginative Education Research Center (IERG) at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver

Published Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 297 pages) Series Science & engineering education sources Science and engineering education sources. Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.1. Philosophy of Science Education Framework -- 1.2. Relation to Philosophy -- 1.3. Relation to Philosophy of Science -- 1.4. Relation to Philosophy of Education -- 1.5. Nature of Philosophy of Science Education (PSE): Scope and Possibilities -- 2.1. Surveying the Issues -- 2.2. Overview of Science Education Reforms: A Recycling of Competing Ideas? -- 2.3. Philosophy of Science Education and Educational Theory -- 2.4. What is a Metatheory? -- 2.5. Why Does Science Education Require a Metatheory? -- 2.6. Summary -- 3.1. Locating Philosophy of Science Education: Bildung, Educational Metatheory, and Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) -- 3.2. Kieran Egan's Educational Metatheory -- 3.3. Egan's Metatheory and HPS Science Education -- 3.4. Summary -- 4.1. Philosophy of Science Education, Epistemology, PCK, and Content Knowledge -- 4.2. Philosophy of Science Education and Nature of Science (NoS) -- 4.3. Kuhn, Schwab, and Siegel on Science Education and Textbooks -- 4.4. Epistemology, HPS, and Student Learning Theories -- 4.5. Epistemology and Curriculum Design: Scientism and Nature of Science -- 4.6. Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Objectivism and Representation -- 4.7. PSE Case Study: The Realism/Instrumentalism Controversy in Philosophy of Science and its Value for Science Pedagogy -- 4.8. Summary -- 5.1. Introduction-The Shift from Epistemology to Ontology: The "Interpretative Turn" and Hermeneutics -- 5.2. PSE Case Study: Science Education, Dewey, Gadamer, and Language -- 5.3. Deweyan Legacy in Science Education -- 5.4. John Dewey's Linguistic Assumptions -- 5.5. Dewey's Linguistic Progressivism -- 5.6. Hans-Georg Gadamer on the Nature of Language -- 5.7. Relevancy of Gadamer's Language Theory to Science Education -- 5.8. Summary Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-295) Notes Print version record Subject Science -- Study and teaching -- Philosophy SCIENCE -- Study & Teaching. Science -- Study and teaching -- Philosophy Genre/Form Science Form Electronic book ISBN 9781623967161 1623967163

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