IHPST announcements
Dear Colleagues,
The following IHPST announcements might be of
interest.
# 13th Biennial International IHPST
Conference
The 2015 IHPST Biennial
Conference will be held in Rio de Janeiro, July 22-25, at The Federal Center of
Technological Education of Rio de Janeiro (CEFET/RJ) under the co-chairmanship
of Marco Braga and Andreia Guerra.
Closing date for
conference submissions is March 14.
Further details of
registration, accommodation, venue are available at: http://www.abq.org.br/ihpst2015/
# Science & Education Current Issue (Vol.
24 Nos. 1-2)
Thematic Issue: Mendel, Mendelism and Education: 150 years since the “Versuche”
Thematic Issue: Mendel, Mendelism and Education: 150 years since the “Versuche”
Contents and details at: http://link.springer.com/journal/11191/24/1/page/1
# Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society,
Open Access Issues on Landmark Papers
The world’s oldest scientific journal, Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society, celebrates its 350th anniversary this
month.
As part of the anniversary celebrations, the Royal
Society has published two special journal issues in which modern experts
revisit landmark papers published in Philosophical Transactions to
explore how they have impacted science across the globe.
·
Highlights in the two celebratory issues include:
science writer Philip Ball, writing on Alan Turing’s paper ‘Chemical Basis of
Morphogenesis’ on the spontaneous formation of patterns in the natural world;
Dr Nick Lane reflects on Leeuwenhoek’s first glance into the microscopic world
of bacteria; Patricia Fara explores Newton’s 1672 paper which presented his new
theory about light and colour; Jim Al-Khalili takes a look at Faraday’s
‘Experimental researches in electricity’ and John McEvoy on ‘Gases, God and the balance of
nature: a commentary on Priestley (1772) ‘Observations on different kinds of
air’ . All of these papers can be downloaded gratis from the Royal
Society sites below.
More details of these two open access issues are
available at:
Philosophical Transactions
pioneered the concepts of scientific priority and peer review which, together
with archiving and dissemination, provide the model for almost 30,000
scientific journals today.
To celebrate the anniversary the Royal Society is
holding a series of events looking back at the history of Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society and forwards to the future of scientific
publication. To find out more about celebrations around the anniversary visit: https://royalsociety.org/publishing350/
# HPS&ST Handbook
The Springer handbook of research in History,
Philosophy and Science and Mathematics Teaching has been published. There
are 2,544 pages in 3-volumes, with76 chapters, written by 125 authors from 30
countries. The extensive scope of the work is reflected in the Subject
Index which has 2,000 entries, the Name Index which has 3,600 entries, and the
10,200 references cited.
Where institutions purchase the e-version of the
handbook, their staff and students can download individual chapters
gratis. Further, such staff and students can purchase the whole 3-volume
printed work for EUR35 or USD35 (mail included). Please note that this
offer is only available for institutions purchasing the e-version, not the more
expensive printed version.
# Anthology: Contemporary Studies in HPS &
Science Teaching
The 76 chapters in the HPS&ST handbook cover a
good deal of the HPS&ST field, but they do not exhaust it. Topics
that were planned for the handbook, but that for different reasons did not make
the published version include:
‘Feminism
and Sc. Educ. Debates’
‘HPS
& Sc. Teacher Preparation’
‘The
Enlightenment Tradition in Science Education’
‘Lessons
from the History of Constructivism in Science Education Research’
‘Indoctrination:
Can and should it be avoided in science education?’
‘Science
and the Liberal Education Tradition’
There are other lacunae in the handbook that might be
identified, including other biographies (just five are in the handbook) and
other national studies (just eleven in the handbook).
Springer have agreed, in principle, to publish an
anthology provisionally titled Contemporary Studies in HPS & Science
Teaching in their Science: Philosophy, History and Education book
series (www.springer.com/series/13387
).
The anthology is intended to complement, not repeat,
topics covered in the handbook. Of particular concern is locating and publishing
research on The Enlightenment Tradition in Science Education – studies on
historical, philosophical, cultural, national and educational dimensions of the
topic.
The initial maximum length for anthology chapters will
be 12,000 words. A 1,500 word abstract (with references) to be
submitted to the editor by March 17 The final manuscript
submission date will be September 1st 2015. All submissions
will undergo multiple review.
Researchers working on any of the above topics (or
other relevant HPS&ST topics), or who know researchers who are, please
contact the anthology editor:
Michael R. Matthews m.matthews@unsw.edu.au
Michael R. Matthews m.matthews@unsw.edu.au
# Science Teaching: The Contribution of History
and Philosophy of Science
The 20th anniversary edition of this 1994
book has been published by Routledge. It has twelve chapters, 1,300
references, 500 pages, and 185,000 words; it provides a foundation for
HPS-informed research and teaching in science education; it has been well
received by philosophers, psychologists and educators.
Details at:
www.routledge.com/9780415519342
# Coming Conferences
March 12-16, 2015, Philosophy of Education Society (PES), annual
conference, Memphis.
Details at: http://www.philosophyofeducation.org/
April 11-14, 2015, National Association for Research in Science Teaching
(NARST) annual conference, Chicago
Details at: www.narst.org
June 15-18, 2015, ‘Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology
Education’, Siauliai, Lithuania
Details at: http://www.scientiasocialis.lt/balticste
July 22-25, 2015, 13th IHPST International Conference, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
Details
at: http://www.abq.org.br/ihpst2015/
August 3-8, 2015, 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology, and
Philosophy of Science, Helsinki, Finland
Details
at: http://www.helsinki.fi/clmps
August
31 – September 4, 2015, European Science Education Research Association,
Helsinki, Finland