Pedagogy and the Practice of Science - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-262-11288-8
Verlag: MIT Press

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 865 g

Reihe: Inside Technology

Studies examining the ways in which the training of engineers and scientists shapes their research strategies and scientific identities.Pedagogy and the Practice of Science provides the first sustained examination of how scientists' and engineers' training shapes their research and careers. The wide-ranging essays move pedagogy to the center of science studies, asking where questions of scientists' training should fit into our studies of the history, sociology, and anthropology of science. Chapter authors examine the deep interrelations among training, learning, and research and consider how the form of scientific training affects the content of science. They investigate types of training—in cultural and political settings as varied as Victorian Britain, interwar Japan, Stalinist Russia, and Cold War America—and the resulting scientific practices. The fields they examine span the modern physical sciences, ranging from theoretical physics to electrical engineering and from nuclear weapons science to quantum chemistry.The studies look both at how skills and practices can be transferred to scientists-in-training and at the way values and behaviors are passed on from one generation of scientists to the next. They address such topics as the interplay of techniques and changing research strategies, pedagogical controversies over what constitutes "appropriate" or "effective," the textbook as a genre for expressing scientific creativity, and the moral and social choices that are embodied in the training of new scientists. The essays thus highlight the simultaneous crafting of scientific practices and of the practitioners who put them to work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaiser, David

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gordin, Michael

Kaiser, David

Gusterson, Hugh

Gooday, Graeme

Ito, Kenji

Mody, Cyrus C. M.

Garcia-Belmar, Antonio

Bertomeu-Sánchez, Jose Ramón

Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette

Hall, Karl

Park, Buhm Soon

Olesko, Kathryn M.

Traweek, Sharon

Warwick, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Datenanalyse, Datenverarbeitung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines

Über Autor(innen)

Warwick, Andrew
Andrew Warwick is Lecturer in the History of Science at Imperial College, London.

Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent is Professor of History at the University of Paris X. She is the author of A History of Chemistry and other books.

Gusterson, Hugh
Hugh Gusterson is Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of Nuclear Rites and People of the Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex.

Kaiser, David
David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, Department Head of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at MIT. He is the author of Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of the Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics, and editor of Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (MIT Press).

Kaiser, David
David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, Department Head of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at MIT. He is the author of Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of the Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics, and editor of Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (MIT Press).

Mody, Cyrus C. M.
Cyrus C. M. Mody is Professor and Chair in the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation at Maastricht University. He is the author of Instrumental Community: Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology (MIT Press).

Gooday, Graeme
Graeme Gooday is Professor of the History of Science and Technology in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds.

John Paul Slosar, M.A., is the Director of Ethics for Ascension Health in St. Louis, MO. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University. His research interests include organizational ethics, ethical issues in genomics, healthcare reform, and ethical issues in end-of-life care.