Time for Science Education: How Teaching the History and Philosophy of Pendulum Motion can Contribute to Science Literacy

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Springer Science & Business Media, 6 dec 2012 - 440 pagina's
The book's argument depends, as do most proposals in education, upon cer tain positions in the philosophy of education. I believe that education should be primarily concerned with developing understanding, with initiation into worth while traditions of intellectual achievement, and with developing capacities for clear, analytic and critical thought. These have been the long-accepted goals of liberal education. In a liberal education, students should come to know and appre ciate a variety of disciplines, know them at an appropriate depth, see the interconnectedness of the disciplines, or the modes of thought, and finally have some critical disposition toward what is being learned, to be genuinely open minded about intellectual things. These liberal goals are contrasted with goals such as professional training, job preparation, promotion of self-esteem, social engineering, entertainment, or countless other putative purposes of schooling that are enunciated by politicians, administrators, and educators. The book's argument might be consistent with other views of education especially ones about the training of specialists (sometimes called a professional view of education)-but the argument fits best with a liberal view of education. The liberal hope has always been that if education is done well, then other per sonal and social goods will follow. The development of informed, critical, and moral capacities is the cornerstone for personal and social achievements.
 

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Learning about the Pendulum and Improving
1
Problems with Science Education
7
Science Literacy
13
Navigation and the Longitude Problem
19
Ancient and Medieval Timekeeping
47
Galileo and the Pendulum Clock
77
Galileos Analysis of Pendulum Motion
95
Christiaan Huygens and the Pendulum Clock
121
Poetry and the Design Argument
228
Some Lessons from the History
237
Epistemology and the Analysis of Pendulum Motion
243
Observation Theory and Experiment
251
Scientific Laws
261
Reductionist Accounts of Time
267
The Pendulum and Simple Harmonic Motion
302
Measuring Time in Junior High School
311

Perfecting Mechanical Timekeeping
157
Hookes Dispute with Huygens
164
Leibniz Clockwork Proposal
170
Determining Local Time
176
The Clock Analogy in Philosophy
214
Newtons Argument with Leibniz about Gods Involvement
221
CrossDisciplinary Teaching about Time
317
Appendix Some Significant Dates
353
Endnotes
357
References
381
Credits
419
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Michael Matthews is a weight trainer and fitness instructor who has authored several books to help individuals becomes healthier and stronger. His program combines weight lifting routines with cardio workouts to gain the maximum results. His books title's include: Bigger Leaner Stronger, Thinner, Leaner, Stronger, Beyond Bigger Leaner Stronger, and The Year 1 Challenge for Men.

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