This book deals with uncertainty and graphing in scientific
discovery work from a social practice perspective. It is based on a
5-year ethnographic study in an advanced experimental biology
laboratory. The book shows how, in discovery work where scientists
do not initially know what to make of graphs, there is a great deal
of uncertainty and scientists struggle in trying to make sense of
what to make of graphs. Contrary to the belief that scientists have
no problem "interpreting" graphs, the chapters in this book make
clear that uncertainty about their research object is tied to
uncertainty of the graphs. It may take scientists several years of
struggle in their workplace before they find out just what their
graphs are evidence of. Graphs turn out to stand to the entire
research in a part/whole relation, where scientists not only need
to be highly familiar with the context from which their data are
extracted but also with the entire process by means of which the
natural world comes to be transformed and represented in the graph.
This has considerable implications for science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics education at the secondary and
tertiary level, as well as in vocational training. This book
discusses and elaborates these implications.
General
| Imprint: |
Springer
|
| Country of origin: |
Netherlands |
| Release date: |
September 2016 |
| First published: |
2014 |
| Authors: |
Wolff-Michael Roth
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
454 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-9402401035 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
Teaching of a specific subject
|
| LSN: |
9402401032 |
| Barcode: |
9789402401035 |
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