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Pedagogy and the practice of science : historical and contemporary perspectives
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Pedagogy and the practice of science : historical and contemporary perspectives

Author: David Kaiser
Publisher: Cambridge, Ma : MIT Press, 2005.
Series: Inside technology
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Kaiser
ISBN: 0262112884 9780262112888
OCLC Number: 56956362
Description: vi, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction, Moving pedagogy from the periphery to the center / David Kaiser -- Beilstein unbound : the pedagogical unraveling of a man and his Handbuch / Michael D. Gordin -- Making tools travel : pedagogy and the transfer of skills in postwar theoretical physics / David Kaiser -- Pedagogy of diminishing returns : scientific involution across three generations of nuclear weapons science / Hugh Gusterson -- Fear, shunning, and valuelessness : controversy over the use of "Cambridge" mathematics in late Victorian electro-technology / Graeme Gooday -- Geist in the institute : the production of quantum physicists in 1930s Japan / Kenji Ito -- Instruments in training : the growth of American probe microscopy in the 1980s / Cyrus C. M. Moody -- Power of didactic writings : French chemistry textbooks of the nineteenth century / Antonio García-Belmar, José Bertomeu-Sánchez, and Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent -- "Think less about foundations" : a short course on Landau and Lifshitz's Course of Theoretical Physics / Karl Hall -- In the "context of pedagogy" : teaching strategy and theory change in quantum chemistry / Buhm Soon Park -- Foundations of a canon : Kohlrausch's Practical Physics / Kathryn M. Olesko -- Generating high-energy physics in Japan : moral imperatives of a future pluperfect / Sharon Traweek -- Conclusion, Kuhn, Foucault, and the power of pedagogy / Andrew Warwick and David Kaiser.
Series Title: Inside technology
Responsibility: edited by David Kaiser.

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