Browsing Publications by Title
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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 ... -
Organic materials for nonlinear optics Part 1
(Elsevier, 1989) -
Painting the moon
(Sky and Telescope, 1991) -
Peter Heering and Roland Wittje (eds): Learning by Doing: Experiments and Instruments in the History of Science Teaching [book review]
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2012-05)Essays in this volume address how instruments and experimenting were manifested in science teaching in the nineteenth century, with extensions by a half-century earlier or later. Both science and education underwent ... -
Playing with Light
(Educational Action Research, 2001)The authors conducted action research by developing workshops that involved teacher-participants in their own exploratory learning. The authors facilitated participants in researching of what they noticed, and wanted to ... -
Reflections on the Teaching of Gerbert of Aurillac
(Universitalia, 2010)For one born to French peasants, Gerbert took advantage of exceptional educational opportunities: monastic training at Aurillac; mathematical studies in Spain; tutoring the Pope and Emperor in Rome. Serving Reims cathedral ...