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483	Chemistry Education Research and Practice (free peer-reviewed internet journal) ... Date: 03 March 2003 19:57 +0200 From: Georgios TSAPARLIS...	K-S-Taber drkeithtaber	Mar 3, 2003 6:28 pm
484	Perhaps the most dangerous situation in a deductive science is one in which conclusions are derived from a set of inconsistent premises (all the premises in...	pvalev	Mar 13, 2003 11:55 am
485	I think the rational side of science should be something we aim to get across in teaching sciences at all levels - to complement our teaching of the creative...	K-S-Taber drkeithtaber	Mar 13, 2003 2:06 pm
486	... hand ... limited ... Let me suggest a test. One is told to take for granted that Q is a corollary of P, where P and Q are some propositions. Then one is ...	pvalev drkeithtaber	Mar 13, 2003 3:36 pm
487	As a newcomer to these discussions and a teacher following the governments KS3 science strategy I am embarking on producing at least a bank of resources, at...	stephen kemp skemp193	Mar 15, 2003 9:17 am
488	In 2000 I taught in East Anglia. Having come from NZ where constructivists have captured the nation's curriculum (or at least made constructivist science...	drkeithtaber	Mar 17, 2003 6:28 pm
489	I find it amusing that somebody should show such unrestrained and indiscriminate support for constructivism in science education given for some of the highly...	Eric Scerri s842897	Mar 18, 2003 9:14 am
490	Yes John at the moment we are trained to teach by National Curriculum numbers. As with painting with numbers this gives a presentable canvas that can be...	Tony Cuthbert tony_cuff	Mar 18, 2003 9:16 am
491	Eric is quite right: however - the principles of constructivism in science education are derived from empirical evidence from science teaching/learning and...	K-S-Taber drkeithtaber	Mar 18, 2003 9:38 am
492	... I think in some cases this type of education is impossible. Consider, for instance, the concept of entropy. All textbooks define the entropy through dS =...	Pentcho Valev pvalev	Mar 18, 2003 11:35 am
493	OK - the constructivist theory of learning has a lot going for it. However, the way of teaching which has been developed in view of the theory clearly has a...	Jenny Cumming jenny.cumming@...	Mar 19, 2003 6:56 pm
494	I would need to know what Jenny means by THE way of teaching - I suspect she refers to the approach in the published CLiSP schemes(?) ... as Robin Millar...	K-S-Taber drkeithtaber	Mar 19, 2003 7:41 pm
495	... 1. Chemical Misconceptions: Prevention, Diagnosis and Cure (by someone called Taber, so not a disinterested suggestion I confess!) should be in all...	K-S-Taber drkeithtaber	Mar 19, 2003 7:46 pm
496	What is needed, in my view, is some serious theoretical work in which educational constructivism is clearly differentiated from philosophical constructivism or...	Eric Scerri s842897	Mar 20, 2003 4:59 pm
497	... I have the impression that the discussion is restricted to the abstraction called "constructivism" but everybody avoids discussing particular...	Pentcho Valev pvalev	Mar 20, 2003 4:59 pm
498	Yes, I was thinking of the approach begun by CLIS, but see also the SPACE research project (I am a primary specialist). I don't see how chalk & talk could be...	Jenny Cumming jenny.cumming@...	Mar 25, 2003 11:24 am
499	Sociologists believe that all knowledge is a human construct. Science is no different from other subjects in that all scientic theories, models, and...	Jenny Cumming jenny.cumming@...	Mar 25, 2003 2:18 pm
500	... I am afraid misconceptions emerge later. "Warmth on our skin" can be caused by heat as well. Perhaps the teacher would like children to know that light is...	Pentcho Valev pvalev	Mar 25, 2003 8:30 pm
501	... Or at least, not always. Consider light from the (hot) sun which is absorbed on the (cooler) earth. If we define heat as 'energy in the process of being...	Dr K.S. Taber drkeithtaber	Mar 25, 2003 8:42 pm
502	Concerning the conceptual problems commented in the message repeated below, I would like to add the following thoughts: One has to distinguish between the...	Carl Herrmann Weis germano12242	Mar 26, 2003 9:07 am
503	... The body emitting light could be cooler than the receiver. The essence of the problem: Thermodynamicists don't know how to apply the conceptual framework...	Pentcho Valev pvalev	Mar 26, 2003 5:15 pm
504	The misconceptions may appear later, but the point is that the everyday experiences on which they are based begin at birth!...	Jenny Cumming jenny.cumming@...	Mar 26, 2003 5:16 pm
505	Don't forget I was thinking of children aged 4-8!...	Jenny Cumming jenny.cumming@...	Mar 26, 2003 5:16 pm
506	... Let me disagree. Children's intuitions can be characterized as naive but they don't contain the embrio of the future misconception. Rather, the latter...	Pentcho Valev pvalev	Mar 26, 2003 5:18 pm
507	I think we should pause to consider the basic arguments here. The notion that all knowledge is a human construct is either so obvious as to be completely...	Eric Scerri s842897	Mar 26, 2003 5:46 pm
508	Eric may feel that the constructivist premise is trivial, and that may be a fair comment in philosophical terms. However, it is far from trivial in education,...	K-S-Taber drkeithtaber	Mar 26, 2003 5:59 pm
509	Keith's comments about educational constructivism are well taken. This is why I have urged the need to carefully distinguish between this and philosophical...	Eric Scerri s842897	Mar 27, 2003 10:44 am
510	Perhaps I should have said, All scientific theories, explanations and models are human constructs....	Jenny Cumming jenny.cumming@...	Apr 1, 2003 7:51 am
511	Thanks for the response Jenny. But I am now confused. It seems to me that you did more or less say that. How is your new version a clarification of your...	Eric Scerri s842897	Apr 1, 2003 10:35 am
512	Sorry, I'd forgotten what I'd said before. Someone seemed to suggest that there was science knowledge 'out there' which was not a human construct....	Jenny Cumming jenny.cumming@...	Apr 1, 2003 1:28 pm

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