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Faraday and Piaget: Experimenting in relation with the world
(MIT Press, 2006)
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’ ...
Observing, Exploring, and Learning in Science and Its History
(Teachers College Press, 2021)
A witness account of solar microscope projections: collective acts integrating across personal and historical memory
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)
The paper describes the author's witnessing of images projected from an eighteenth-century solar microscope made by John Dollond, now at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Peter Heering facilitated this session as part of his ...
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 ...
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 ...
Classroom Explorations: Pendulums, Mirrors, and Galileo’s Drama
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2011-02)
What do you see in a mirror when not looking at yourself? What goes on as a pendulum swings? Undergraduates in a science class supposed that these behaviors were obvious until their explorations exposed questions with no ...
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 ...