A new account of the enduring cultural, legal, and scientific legacy of the 1925 Scopes Trial.In The Hundred Years Trial, Alexander and Harold Gouzoules explore the century-long impacts of the historic 1925 Scopes...Daugiau...
Certain scientific fields have long been battlegrounds of controversy, echoing a deep-seated public distrust towards science. This distrust is especially pronounced in areas of policy science, that is, science that informs policy decisions such as v...Daugiau...
This book proposes a comparative reading between formal, or non-formal, structures of learning and individual agency abilities, highlighting influences and entanglements in different geographies from multiple spheres of knowledge and practices....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-May-2025, Other book format, Leidėjas: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780197787120)
In todays world of social media and information overload, certain science topics related to policy decisions, such as vaccination, ignite controversy. Beyond the usual explanations of science denial and ideological battles lies a deeper issue: a wid...Daugiau...
Although difficult, change in academic structures is necessary today, especially in fast-changing fields today such as biology, computing, management, the social sciences, and others. This includes changes within existing organizations as well as...Daugiau...
In 1925, when Tennesse lawmakers banned the teaching of evolution in public schools, teacher John Scopes challenged the law--and set off a gripping circus of a legal battle. Two masterminds faced off in court in a blistering debate over creationism...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jan-2025, Other book format, Leidėjas: Bloomsbury YA, ISBN-13: 9781547612222)
One hundred years ago, a small-town science teacher ignited a nationwide debate over what students should learn in school--and who should decide.* Compelling. -School Library Journal, starred review* Time...Daugiau...
This book provides a case study on how to design and build an introductory geology course for non-science majors. The book presents a foundation with the status of geoscience education and research in geoscience conceptual development as a backdro...Daugiau...
This book sheds new light on the importance of Black representation in the US science curriculum from a social, cultural, cognitive, and scientific perspective.Weaving together content, new methodologies, and science education pedagogies, i...Daugiau...
This book presents the process of circulation and adoption of Newtonianism in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia) in the eighteenth century by examining José Celestino Mutiss lectures at the Colegio del Rosario between the 1760s and...Daugiau...
History is generally defined as the study of past events, particularly in human affairs and is mostly understood when presented chronologically. Thats why someone also defined it as the chronological record of the past. Knowing the past is extre...Daugiau...
This book provides readers with a justification for using science fiction films and texts as a primary source for teaching history-- Science fiction literature and film are an underappreciated source for the teaching of history. Finding...Daugiau...
Science fiction literature and film are an underappreciated source for the teaching of history. Finding material that can excite a students curiosity can be a key towards greater student engagement, especially among students who are taking histor...Daugiau...
Although difficult, change in academic structures is necessary today, especially in fast-changing fields today such as biology, computing, management, the social sciences, and others. This includes changes within existing organizations as well as...Daugiau...
This Variorum volume reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. They address four major themes: the ancient sciences in educational insti...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Sep-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781636671529)
This edited collection sheds new light on the complex dialogue between religion and science that played out at universities in South-East Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This discourse took place against a backdrop of great politi...Daugiau...
Foundational and accessible, this book equips pre-service and practicing teachers with the knowledge, understanding, and tools they need to help students in grades 4 12 develop reading proficiency in the core academic subjects of literature, his...Daugiau...
Foundational and accessible, this book equips pre-service and practicing teachers with the knowledge, understanding, tools, and resources they need to help students in grades 412 develop reading proficiencies in four core academic subjectslitera...Daugiau...
This book presents the process of circulation and adoption of Newtonianism in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia) in the eighteenth century by examining José Celestino Mutiss lectures at the Colegio del Rosario between the 1760s and...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Feb-2023, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Association for Asian Studies, ISBN-13: 9781952636356)
This book is a comparative approach to Japanese politics. Grounded in a discussion of democracys historical development since the Meiji period, each chapter encourages readers to think critically and comparatively about political processes and their...Daugiau...
This book provides a political history of Chinas Nationalist government through officials trained at the Central Politics School. The author examines how these officials engaged in such matters as land administrative reform, the challenges of state...Daugiau...
This book explores a range of issues central to STEM and 21st Century education. It explores research into the relationships between creativity, critical thinking and STEM Education from both a theoretical and practical perspective. It examines ma...Daugiau...
This book, first published in 1980, examines issues such as the definition of the genre, its function as social criticism and as an embodiment and critique of the scientific outlook. In order to work towards a more comprehensive view of the genre,...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Nov-2022, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700633777)
The field of political science underwent a behavioralist transformation in the postwar period due to the influence of private philanthropic foundations that funneled large amounts of money to public universities. Drawing extensively on the archival...Daugiau...
This book is an historical narrative of academic appointments, significant personal and collaborative research endeavours, and important editorial and institutional engagements. For forty years Michael Matthews has been a prominent international r...Daugiau...
This book explores a range of issues central to STEM and 21st Century education. It explores research into the relationships between creativity, critical thinking and STEM Education from both a theoretical and practical perspective. It examines ma...Daugiau...
Kantian Genesis of the Problem of Scientific Education terms the dominant educational paradigm of our time as scientific education and subjects it to historical analysis to bring its tacit racial, colonial and Eurocentric biases into view...Daugiau...
Serija: American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Oct-2021, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812225099)
Race and the Making of American Political Science shows that changing scientific ideas about racial difference were central to the academic study of politics as it emerged in the United States. From the late nineteenth century through the 1...Daugiau...
