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ERIC Number: EJ835400
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 6
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ISSN: ISSN-1195-4353
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Making Interdisciplinary Courses Work with Constructivism and Science, Technology and Society (STS)
Hollenbeck, James E.
College Quarterly, v9 n2 Spr 2006
Educators expect students to question, explain, hypothesize, and devise tests to determine validity concerning science and its applications. The traditional approach of presenting individual courses concentrating on single disciplines and ignoring linkages to other disciplines is abysmal. If we expect students to understand how science is related to the humanities, it is important to provide the links and bring the disciplines together in a coherent interdisciplinary course using Science, Technology, and Society together in a constructivist methodology. Science, Technology, and Society and constructivism recognize that science does not operate in a vacuum nor does student learning. Knowledge is continuing being assembled by learners and science learning must be taught in the scope of the human experience and understanding.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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