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Owens, Kim Hensley – Written Communication, 2009
Through its analysis of birth plans, documents some women create to guide their birth attendants' actions during hospital births, this article reveals the rhetorical complexity of childbirth and analyzes women's attempts to harness birth plans as tools of resistance and self-education. Asserting that technologies can both silence and give voice,…
Descriptors: Criticism, Documentation, Birth, Planning
Klose, Robert – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
In contrast to mainstream science, paranormal phenomena have the effect of "blowing things up" because they offer big, grand, gorgeous images that even the uninitiated can grasp and thrill to at first blush. It makes little difference if one has never seen Bigfoot, an alien, or a human clone. There are those who claim they have, and…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Scientific Attitudes, Scientific Methodology, Scientific Research
Bereiter, Carl; Scardamalia, Marlene – Education Canada, 2009
Teaching "scientific method" has long been a regular part of science education, and many curriculum standards call for it. But it has run into a variety of criticisms, which add up to the charge that it conveys an unrealistic and unappealing view of science. In this article, the authors discuss how science really works and provide different ways…
Descriptors: Scientific Methodology, Science and Society, Science Process Skills, Science Instruction
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Cordero, Alberto – Science & Education, 2009
This paper discusses the impact of contemporary scientific knowledge on worldviews. The first three sections provide epistemological background for the arguments that follow. Sections 2 and 3 discuss the reliable part of science, specifically the characterization, scope and limits of the present scientific canon. Section 4 deals with the mode of…
Descriptors: World Views, Scientific Methodology, Scientific Literacy, Beliefs
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Tomas, Louisa; Ritchie, Stephen M.; Tones, Megan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
The development of scientifically literate citizens remains an important priority of science education; however, growing evidence of students' disenchantment with school science continues to challenge the realization of this aim. This triangulation mixed methods study investigated the learning experiences of 152 9th grade students as they…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Science Education, Role of Education, Evidence
Wongsri, Piyaluk; Nuangchalerm, Prasart – Online Submission, 2010
Problem statement: Socioscientific issues-based learning activity is essential for scientific reasoning skills and it could be used for analyzing problems be applied to each situation for more successful and suitable. The purposes of this research aimed to compare learning achievement, analytical thinking and moral reasoning of seventh grade…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills, Moral Values
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Koepfler, Jes A.; Heimlich, Joe E.; Yocco, Victor S. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2010
This article reports findings on visitors' preferences for content presentation of a future global warming and climate change exhibit. The study was conducted with two groups: one from the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, and the other at the Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio. The…
Descriptors: Science Teaching Centers, Museums, Exhibits, Climate
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Eisenberg, Michael – New Directions for Youth Development, 2010
"Educational technology" is often equated in the popular imagination with "computers in the schools." But technology is much more than merely computers, and education is much more than mere schooling. The landscape of child-accessible technologies is blossoming in all sorts of directions: tools for communication, for physical construction and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Definitions, Technology Uses in Education, Time
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Oloruntegbe, K. O.; Ikpe, Adakole; Kukuru, J. D. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2010
The ability to relate school and home science as a way of enhancing students' performance in chemistry prompted this investigation. 200 high school chemistry students drawn from an urban center in Ondo State, Nigeria constituted the sample. They were made to respond to validated structured questionnaire that sought to discover the ability of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Concept Teaching
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Lapp, David R. – Physics Teacher, 2010
This paper provides examples of naturally radioactive items that are likely to be found in most communities. Additionally, there is information provided on how to acquire many of these items inexpensively. I have found that the presence of these materials in the classroom is not only useful for teaching about nuclear radiation and debunking the…
Descriptors: Radiation, Business, Science Instruction, Science Activities
Lindahl, Britt; Rosberg, Maria; Ekborg, Margareta; Ideland, Malin; Malmberg, Claes; Rehn, Agneta; Ottander, Christina; Silfver, Eva; Winberg, Mikael – Online Submission, 2011
According to many documents, there is a strong need to renew science education. One way could be to work with SSI (socio-scientific issues). This paper reports on both students' and teachers' experiences and learning when working with socio-scientific issues in science education in secondary school (aged from 13 to 16). The approach is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students
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Palmer, Mark H. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2012
The centering processes of geographic information system (GIS) development at the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was an extension of past cartographic encounters with American Indians through the central control of geospatial technologies, uneven development of geographic information resources, and extension of technically dependent…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, United States History, American Indian History, American Indians
Berman, Elizabeth Popp – Princeton University Press, 2012
American universities today serve as economic engines, performing the scientific research that will create new industries, drive economic growth, and keep the United States globally competitive. But only a few decades ago, these same universities self-consciously held themselves apart from the world of commerce. "Creating the Market University" is…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Industry, Universities, Intellectual Property
Zijlstra, Hielkje – Online Submission, 2009
In 2006, we launched the [R]MIT Research Centre (Modification, Intervention Transformation) at the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. [R]MIT was founded to respond to the need for an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to the transformation of the built environment. [R]MIT aims to bring momentum to the renewal of…
Descriptors: Architecture, Conservation (Environment), Interdisciplinary Approach, Physical Environment
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Pouliot, Chantal – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2009
In the first part of this article I propose a conceptual framework--based on the deficit, public debate and co-production of knowledge models articulated by (Callon, 1999)--with which to examine students' appropriation of de socioscientific issues (SSI). The second part of this article presents the way a group of three…
Descriptors: Science and Society, College Bound Students, Student Attitudes, Debate
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