The August IHPST newsletter is now available



Dear Colleagues,

The August IHPST newsletter is now available on the web at:


CONTENTS:

1.            Science & Education Journal, Volume 22 Number 8

OLIVIA LEVRINI & PAOLA FANTINI / Encountering Complexity in Learning Modern Physics
IGAL GALILI / On the Power of Fine Arts Pictorial Imagery in Science Education  
CATHERINE ELIZABETH KENDIG / Integrating History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences in Practice to Enhance Science Education: Swammerdam’s Historia Insectorum Generalis and the Case of the Water Flea                            
GEORGIOS TSAPARLIS, SOTIRIOS HARTZAVALOS & CANAN NAKIBOĞLU / Students’ Knowledge of Nuclear Science and its Connection with Civic Scientific Literacy in Two European Contexts: The Case of Newspaper Articles             
DIMITRIS SPANOS & TASOS PATRONIS / Exemplarity in Mathematics Education: from a Romanticist Viewpoint to a Modern Hermeneutical One                     
DAVID R LEGATES, WILLIE SOON & WILLIAM BRIGGS / Learning and Teaching Climate Science: The Perils of "Consensus" Knowledge Using "Agnotology"         
DANIEL BEDFORD & JOHN COOK / Agnotology, Scientific Consensus, and the Teaching and Learning of Climate Change: A Response to Legates, Soon and Briggs                     
2.            Science & Education Journal, Report
(a) Rationale and Purpose of the Journal
(b) Journal on the Web
(c) Manuscript Submissions
(d) Copyediting Assistance Required for Manuscripts from Non-Anglo Authors
(e) Article Downloads
(f) Thematic Issues
(g) Journal Reviewing
(h) New Book Review Editor Appointed
3.            Journal Thematic Issue, Call for Papers, Philosophy of Science Education: Issues and Possibilities
4.         The 2nd Asian Regional IHPST Conference, December 4 –7,  2014, Taipei, Taiwan
5.            First European Autumn School on History of Science and Education: Sources and Resources for Educational Purposes in the Era of Internet, Barcelona, 14 – 16 November 2013
6.            European Society of History of Science, 6th International Conference, Lisbon, 4-6 September 2014
7.            Conjoint Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association and History of Science Society, November 6-9, 2014, Chicago, USA
8.            Book Reviews

(i) Gustavo Bueno (2013). Sciences as Categorical Closures, Pentalfa Ediciones, Oviedo, Spain
[ÍÑIGO ONGAY DE FELIPE]

(ii) Paul Hoyningen-Huene (2013) Systematicity: The Nature of Science, Oxford University Press
[ESTHER M. VAN DIJK]

(iii) Jed Z. Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold (2011), Newton and the Origin of Civilization. Princeton University Press
[JOHN HENRY]

9.            Coming Conferences
10.         IHPST Council (2011-13)
11.         Newsletter Items

A/Professor Michael R. Matthews
School of Education
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052
Australia
Phone: 61-2-9418 3665

Editor Science & Education
President, Inter-Divisional Teaching Commission of DHST/DLMPS of IUHPS