Pedagogy and the practice of science : historical and contemporary perspectives / edited by David Kaiser. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaiser, David, Author.

Contributor:

Kaiser, David.

Series:

Inside technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Study and teaching (Higher)--History--19th century.

Science.

Science--Study and teaching (Higher)--History--20th century.

Science--Philosophy--History--19th century.

Science--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 426 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-262-27668-2

1-4237-2997-8