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
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
Sydney 2052
Australia
Phone: 61-2-9418 3665
Email: m.matthews@unsw.edu.au
Editor Science &
Education
President,
Inter-Divisional Teaching Commission of DHST/DLMPS of IUHPS