"Teachers' Learning: Stories of Science Education is aimed at science educators who wish for a deeper understanding of how teachers learn to teach science and the role of stories in reporting science education research. It is fascinating look at the knowledge teachers have and u…
More than 100 leading scholars from the global science education community contributed 96 chapters in 11 sections of the Second International Handbook of Science Education, which contains a synthesis of cutting edge research that picks up from where the inaugural Handbook left o…
In "Science and Ethics", Bernard Rollin examines the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science. Providing an introduction to basic ethical concepts, he discusses a variety of ethical issues that are relevant to science and how they are ignored, to the detriment of …
"In Science and Ethics, Bernard Rollin historically and conceptually examines the ideology than denies the relevance of ethics to science. Providing an introduction to basic ethical concepts, he discusses a variety of ethical issues that are relevant to science and how they are …
Gender and career in science and engineering
Gender and career in science and engineering
What happens to women and men who become professional engineers and scientists and work for industrial organizations in Britain? This question is explored here by examining the career experiences of a group of engineers and scientists working for two large industrial companies. …
Gender and career in science and engineering
What happens to women and men who become professional engineers and scientists and work for industrial organizations in Britain? This question is explored here by examining the career experiences of a group of engineers and scientists working for two large industrial companies. …
An essential contribution to the study of the history of computers, this work identifies the computer's impact on the physical, biological, cognitive, and medical sciences. References fundamental to the understudied area of the history of scientific computing also document the s…
Using case studies of scientists in the Amazon analysing soil and studying the fermentation of lactic acid, the author shows the myriad steps by which events in the material world are transformed into items of scientific knowledge.
