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Title Pedagogy and the practice of science : historical and contemporary perspectives / edited by David Kaiser.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 426 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Inside technology
Inside technology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 19th century.
Science -- Study and teaching (Higher)
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century.
Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Kaiser, David.
Other Form: Print version: Pedagogy and the practice of science. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005 0262112884 (DLC) 2004061364 (OCoLC)56956362
ISBN 9780262276689 (electronic book)
0262276682 (electronic book)
1423729978 (electronic book)
9781423729976 (electronic book)