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Imagination of Science in Education: From Epics to Novelization

Imagination of Science in Education: From Epics to Novelization

Hardcover

Series: Cultural Studies of Science Education, Book 7

General EducationGeneral ScienceHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 9400753918
ISBN13: 9789400753914
Publisher: Springer
Published: Oct 10 2012
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Researchers agree that schools construct a particular image of science, in which some characteristics are featured while others end up in oblivion. The result is that although most children are likely to be familiar with images of heroic scientists such as Einstein and Darwin, they rarely learn about the messy, day-to-day practice of science in which scientists are ordinary humans. Surprisingly, the process by which this imagination of science in education occurs has rarely been theorized. This is all the more remarkable since great thinkers tend to agree that the formation of images -- imagination -- is at the root of how human beings modify their material world. Hence this process in school science is fundamental to the way in which scientists, being the successful agents in/of science education, actually create their own scientific enterprise once they take up their professional life.

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