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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 ... -
Review of Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation
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Shadows of Light and History in Explorative Teaching and Learning
(Tipographia Editora Expressa, 2013)Shadows are everyday phenomena that intrigued people in the past and remain accessible today. Shadows and history provided the context for Jab activities among two teachers who participated with me as learners under the ... -
Shaping and being shaped by environments for learning science: continuities with the space and democratic vision of a century ago
(2017)Environments of learning often remain unnoticed and unacknowledged. This study follows a student and myself as we became aware of our local environment at MIT and welcomed that environment as a vibrant contributor to our ... -
The spiral conductor of Charles Grafton Page: Reconstructing experience with the body, more options, and ambiguity
(National Museums Scotland, 2011)Following discoveries of self-induction made by Faraday (1834) and Henry (1832/1835), Harvard medical student Charles Grafton Page took bodily shocks in 1836 from his homemade spiralled conductor while interrupting its ... -
Teaching about the Nature of Science through Historical Experiments
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Time traveling––An intuitive grasp of time takes time
(2011)Seeking to understand the experience of time and instruments of its measure, three students of today traveled in past, present and future in analogy to the Time Traveller of nineteenth century novelist H.G. Wells. Like ...