Foundations of Science Education
BTNY/CHEM/GEO/MICR/PHYS/ZOOL 3570
Adam Johnston
Assignments and course materials:
Labs:
Readings:
- Electronic Reserve
- Other:
- Umbrellaolgoy (class handout)
- McComas, "The Principal Elements of the Nature of Science: Dispelling the Myths"
- Settlage & Southerland, "The Nature of Science"
- Johnston & Southerland, "Multiple Meanings of the Tentative Nature of Science"
- Gould, S. J., "Evolution as Fact and Theory"
- Notes on constructivism and conceptual change
- Carlone, H.B. (2004), "The cultural production of science in reform-based physics: Girls' access, participation, and resistance" Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 41(4), 392-414.
- Ladson-Billings (2003). I used to love science . . . and then I went to school. Keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching. Philadelphia, PA.
- Settlage, J. (2007). Demythologizing science teacher education: Conquering the false ideal of open inquiry. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 18(4), 461-467.
- Johnston, A. (in press). Demythologizing or dehumanizing? A response to Settlage and the ideals of open inquiry.
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