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Challenging Science Standards - A Skeptical Critique of the Quest for Unity (Hardcover)
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Challenging Science Standards - A Skeptical Critique of the Quest for Unity (Hardcover)
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For several decades educators have struggled to identify the
attributes all sciences have in common. In the popular mind this
effort constitutes the importance of teaching "the" scientific
method. In the policy maker's world this pursuit yields standards
for all Americans that unify the sciences. For teachers, the quest
for unity has typically meant teaching science as process. However,
a curriculum that prioritizes what all sciences have in common
obscures their vital differences. For example, studying landslides
is very different from doing x-ray diffraction; climate science is
unlike medical research. Naive ideas about scientific unity
impoverish the public's ability to evaluate scientific enterprises.
Challenging Science Standards voices skepticism towards the quest
for unity. Through analyses of disciplinary knowledge, school
curricula, and classroom learning, the book uncovers flaws in the
unifying dimensions of the science standards. It proposes respect
for disciplinary diversity and attention to questions of value in
choosing what science to teach. Illuminated by vignettes of
children and adolescents studying topics ranging from snail
populations to horse fossils, Challenging Science Standards
proposes promising remedies.
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