Pedagogy and the practice of science : historical and contemporary perspectives /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
[2005]
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| Series: | Inside technology.
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Table of 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.