In the nineteenth century, geophysics and empire building developed in tandem. As a result, empirical science could utilize the imperial structure to conduct research on a worldwide scale. Scientific motives for such studies included the need to confront both weaknesses in the i…
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of Saudi Arabian secondary preservice science teachers (SPSTs) toward a variety of science teaching practices. An ultimate, essential goal of this study was to use generated information and findings to improve the curren…
This dissertation provides a historical dimension to development studies by tracing, for one region, the emergence of official and popular discourses on rural poverty and “backwardness” and the prospect of their amelioration through science, social science and technology. Combin…
Drawing on the discipline of colonial science and medicine and on the historical sociology of class formation, this dissertation argues that science constituted a key discursive and practical framework for the formation of modern Iranian society. Part One illustrates how origina…
The primary concern of this study was to examine if there are significant difference in teachers' perceptions and students' attitudes toward technology integrated into the science classroom based on their school group and grade level. In addition, this study also examined studen…
This dissertation seeks to contribute to the understanding of two manuscript copies of the Kitab al-diryaq [Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, arabe 2964, dated 1199 CE, and Vienna, Nationalbibliothek, A.F. 10, thirteenth century CE] as illustrated books. This interdisciplinary stud…