Virtues as Integral to Science Education: Understanding the Intellectual, Moral, and Civic Value of Science and Scientific Inquiry

ISBN-13: 9780367421397 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 176 str.

Wayne Melville; Donald Kerr

Opis

This text challenges the increasing professionalization of science; questions the view of scientific knowledge as objective; and highlights the relationship between democracy and science. Scholars in the fields of Philosophy of Science, Ethics and Philosophy of Education, as well as Science Education, will find this book to be highly useful.

Spis treści

Foreword;  Acknowledgements;  1: Science Education and the Virtues;  2: The Links Between the Virtues, Science, and Science Education;  3: The Good, the Bad and the Study;  4: Vocation, Science, and the Good Life;  5: The Rise Of Neoliberalism and the Changing Emphasis On What Is Valued In Science Education;  6: Countering Scientism And Skepticism in Teaching the Nature Of Science Through Its Virtues;  7. Teachers, Virtues and Professional Practice;  8: Informal Science Learning Environments and Contextualized Innovation Spaces (Jugaad): Exploring Phronesis and a Virtue-based Theory Of Knowledge;  9: The Virtue Of Citizenship: The Deficit Of Democratic Politics In Science Education;  10: Science Teaching as a Moral Endeavor: Making Sense from Critical Sociocultural and Heritage Perspectives