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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 712 avhandlingar innehållade orden Educational science.
6. Different Images of Science - A study of how science is constituted in exhibitions
Sammanfattning : Within the science and technology centre (STC) movement there exists explicit aims and ambitions to enhance visitors’ interest in and knowledge about science. Meanwhile, several researches question the choice of the scientific content in exhibitions when arguing that a too unproblematic view of science commonly is presented. LÄS MER
7. Staging Science : Some aspects of the production and distribution of science knowledge
Sammanfattning : The dissertation presents a phenomenological view on the interaction between science knowledge and prescientific knowledge. Drawing on Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Lévinas the human bodily grounded existence is described, the central feature of this existence being its responsivity to the Other. LÄS MER
8. Cultivating humanity in science education : A capabilities approach to students' critical examination of public issues in science education
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about science education as an education for citizenship with a particular focus on the potential of inviting students to participate in critical examination of public issues in the media. Through digital media, a vast amount of health-related information is readily available to the public. LÄS MER
9. Is College Science Teaching Women's Work? : Gender Inequity in the Physical Sciences
Sammanfattning : After decades of virtual exclusion from participation in STEM, women have majored in, earned graduate degrees in, and forged careers in male-dominated fields such as the physical sciences in increasing numbers. At each step of the way, however, women’s participation diminishes, and this is especially apparent in the workforce. LÄS MER
10. Educational imaginaries : a genealogy of the digital citizen
Sammanfattning : This thesis makes use of a genealogical approach to map out and explainhow and why computers and citizenship have become so closely connected.It examines the historical continuities and disruptions, and the role thatpopular education has played in this interrelation. LÄS MER