Titlebook: Constructivism in Science Education; A Philosophical Exam Michael R. Matthews Book 1998 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998 cons

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,Constructivisms and Relativisms: A Shopper’s Guide,e — a unity in their negative identities — but a sometimes wild multiplicity and incompatibility regarding the positive proposals that they put forward. In particular, some constructivisms propose an epistemological idealism, with a concomitant relativism, while others are explicitly opposed to such

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Social Constructivism, the Gospel of Science, and the Teaching of Physics,c knowledge. This paper offers a critical examination of some of the basic claims of this branch of science studies and argues that social constructivists cannot explain some of the most characteristic features of the physical sciences. The implications of social constructivism for science education

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Coming to Grips with Radical Social Constructivisms, it is stressed that there is great ‘within group’ variation. More than half of the paper is devoted to general ‘clearing of the ground’, during which the reasons for the growing acrimony in the debates between social constructivists and their opponents are assessed, an important consequence of thes

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Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and Scientific Education: Part I,upon the rationale and practice of science teaching. It is maintained that if the claims of SSK are true then there are serious, and educationally and culturally deleterious, implications which follow. The two articles will argue that, fortunately, the claims of SSK for the external causation of sci

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Cognition, Construction of Knowledge, and Teaching, the subjective perspective on social interaction. In the concluding section it then suggests some of the consequences the shift of epistemological presuppositions might have for the practice of teaching.

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Educational Constructivism and Philosophy: Some References,philosophical matters in science education. Even so it is not an exhaustive list, but hopefully it will be useful for teachers and researchers in the field. The author welcomes additions or omissions being brought to his attention.