Browsing Publications by Title
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Earth Grounds and Heavenly Spires: Lightning Rod Men, Patent Inventors and Telegraphers
(American Philosophical Society, 2009) -
Effects, Devices and Adventures
(2019) -
Experimenting with magnetism: Ways of learning of Joann and Faraday
(American Journal of Physics, 1997)This paper narrates learning as it evolved through experimental work and interpretation in two distinct investigations: the explorations of permanent magnets and needles conducted by a student, Joann, as I interactively ... -
Exploring mirrors, recreating science and history, becoming a class community
(Association of Teacher Educators, 2009)A teacher narrates from activities and discussions that arose among undergraduates and herself while doing critical explorations of mirrors. Surprised by light's behaviors, the students responded with curiosity, losing ... -
Faraday and Piaget: Experimenting in relation with the world
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Frances Gertrude Wick (1875-1941)
(Greenwood Press, 1993) -
Historical Experiments in Students’ Hands: Unfragmenting Science through Action and History
(Springer-Verlag, 2008-08)Two students, meeting together with a teacher, redid historical experiments. Unlike conventional instruction where science topics and practices often fragment, they experienced interrelatedness among phenomena, participants’ ... -
Introducing Investigation into the Teaching and Learning Experiences of New Teachers of Science
(Education Resources Information Center, 2001) -
Introductory paper on critical explorations in teaching art, science, and teacher education
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)The authors of the three papers in this issue discuss and analyze the practice underlying “critical exploration,” a research pedagogy applied in common within their separate art, science, and teacher education classrooms. ... -
Learning Science as Explorers: Historical Resonances, Inventive Instruments, Evolving Community
(Springer Netherlands, 2015-02)Doing science as explorers, students observe, wonder and question the unknown, stretching their experience. To engage students as explorers depends on their safety in expressing uncertainty and taking risks. I create these ... -
Metaphors of nature : the vision of Cézanne, Monet, and Poincaré.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978) -
Mirrors, swinging weights, lightbulbs…: Simple experiments and history help a class become a community
(https://www.frank-timme.de/en/programme/product/constructing_scientific_understanding_through_contextual_teaching, 2007) -
Nineteenth-Century Developments in Coiled Instruments and Experiences with Electromagnetic Induction
(Informa UK Limited, 2006)Faraday demonstrated electromagnetic induction in 1831 using an iron ring wound with two wire coils; on interrupting battery current in one coil, momentary currents arose in the other. Between Faraday’s ring and the induction ... -
Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Polymers
(Elsevier Press, 1989) -
Nonlinear optics and organic materials Part 2
(Elsevier, 1989) -
Observing, Exploring, and Learning in Science and Its History
(Teachers College Press, 2021) -
Opening Possibilities in Experimental Science and its History: Critical Explorations with Pendulums and Singing Tubes
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008-10)A teacher and a college student explore experimental science and its history by reading historical texts, and responding with replications and experiments of their own. A curriculum of ever-widening possibilities evolves ...