Imagination of Science in Education: From Epics to Novelization

by Wolff-Michael Roth and Michiel van Eijck

Book Overview

Researchers agree that schools construct a particular image of science, in which some characteristics are featured while others end up in oblivion. The result is that although most children are likely to be familiar with images of heroic scientists such as Einstein and Darwin, they rarely learn about the messy, day-to-day practice of science in which scientists are ordinary humans. Surprisingly, the process by which this imagination of science...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400753918
• ISBN13: 9789400753914
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"