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Conference Workshop in Science in General Education (1950 : Harvard University)

Title General education in science / edited by I. Bernard Cohen and Fletcher G. Watson; with a foreword by James Bryant Conant.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1952.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  Q181 .W86 1950a    Available  ---
Description xviii, 217 pages ; 22 cm
Note "Papers ... presented at the Workshop in Science in General Education, held at the Harvard Summer School in July 1950."
Bibliography Contains references.
Contents Science and the layman / Rene Dubos -- General education and special education in the sciences / Sidney J. French -- The assimilation of science into general education / Paul B. Sears -- The role of philosophy in a general education course in physical science / Edwin C. Kemble -- What teachers of general education courses in the sciences should know about philosophy / Philipp Frank -- The history of science and the teaching of science / I. Bernard Cohen -- The use of historical cases in science teaching / Leonard K. Nash -- Acquiring a knowledge of the history of science / Frederick G. Kilgour -- Applications of science and the teaching of science / Philippe Le Corbeiller -- What the layman needs to know about science / S. A. Goudsmit -- Education for citizenship in a technical civilization / Edward C. Fuller -- An approach to the teaching of biology to nonscientists / Edward S. Castle -- The general education course in biology: Laboratory work and general objectives / George E. Erikson -- Can general education courses in the sciences be evaluated? / Henry S. Dryer -- What the instructor can do about evaluation: Techniques and examples / Fletcher G. Watson
Subject Science -- Study and teaching.
Science -- Study and teaching.
Added Author Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914-2003.
Watson, Fletcher G. (Fletcher Guard)