Charles R. Ault Jr.

Beyond Science Standards (eBook, ePUB)

Play, Art, Coherence, Community

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Beyond Science Standards captures a vision of science education both whimsical and serious. Ranging across examples from elementary to university level classrooms and grounded in philosophy and history, the stories address dimensions beyond the realm of bureaucratic standards. Its thesis brings into question the premise of scientific unity and its representation in school as notions of method, process, nature, and practice. Schools, no less than the sciences, profit from playful exploration-of musical instruments in fourth grade physical science, for example, and hotel lobby decorative rock in a college geology course. Aesthetic expression permeates geologic interpretation and evolutionary insight-in depicting dentition, for instance, in the history of the horse family and linking this history to changing landscapes. Participating in collecting local, high altitude weather data enhances trust in climate science, especially when the observations benefit the local farming community. Allied with historical examples of the conduct of science, Beyond Science Standards offers the reader inspiring stories of science teaching, varying from place to place, time to time, discipline to discipline, and purpose to purpose.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475859980
• Artikelnr.: 62801246

Autorenporträt

Charles R. Ault, Jr. ("Kip"), professor emeritus, Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, coordinated the school's Master of Arts in Teaching program for science teachers for more than two decades. Kip began his career teaching primary grades and middle school science in Connecticut and Colorado. Author of Do Elephants Have Knees? and Challenging Science Standards, his writing reflects an interest in paleontology and the value of subject diversity in the reform of school science.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Jack Hassard
Introduction: The Cheshire Cat's Grin
Part I: Paradigm Lost
Chapter One: Descartes' Dream
Chapter Two: Complicated Truths
Chapter Three: Discipline Diversity
Chapter Four: Menacing Mudflats
Part II: Playful Exploration
Chapter Five: Wavy Elephants
Chapter Six: Binary Banjos
Chapter Seven: Harmful Haste
Chapter Eight: Serious Whimsy
Chapter Nine: Salted Alcohol
Chapter Ten: Squirrel Tales
Part III: Aesthetic Expression
Chapter Eleven: Skull sockets
Chapter Twelve: Crowned Molars
Chapter Thirteen: Hell's Pig
Chapter Fourteen: Vivid Canyons
Chapter Fifteen: Fossil Imagery
Chapter Sixteen: Inspiring Invertebrates
Chapter Seventeen: Clawed Wings
Chapter Eighteen: Pesky Pillbugs
Chapter Nineteen: Flashy Plumage
Part IV: Conceptual Coherence
Chapter Twenty: Poetic Rocks
Chapter Twenty-one: Vast Moments
Chapter Twenty-two: Storied Geology
Part V: Community Purpose
Chapter Twenty-three: Simple Automata
Chapter Twenty-four: Egg Balloons
Chapter Twenty-five: Competing Forecasts
Chapter Twenty-six: Wicked Extinctions
Chapter Twenty-seven: Harvesting Oysters
Chapter Twenty-eight: Caring Communities
Conclusion: Paradigm's Progress
Index