Scientific and Technological Thinking

Zusatztext "...recommend this volume and hope that it indeed opens up greater discussion about scientific and technical thinking and where! how! and why it matters."—Science Education Informationen zum Autor Michael E. Gorman, Ryan D. Tweney, David C. Gooding, Alexandra P. Kincannon Klappentext This book describes empirically ways to analyze and then to effectually utilize cognitive processes to advance discovery and invention in the sciences. It also explains how to teach these principles to students. Zusammenfassung This book describes empirically ways to analyze and then to effectually utilize cognitive processes to advance discovery and invention in the sciences. It also explains how to teach these principles to students. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface. M.E. Gorman, R.D. Tweney, D.C. Gooding, A.P. Kincannon, Editors' Introduction. N.J. Nersessian, Interpreting Scientific and Engineering Practices: Integrating the Cognitive, Social, and Cultural Dimensions. K.N. Dunbar, J.A. Fugelsang, Casual Thinking in Science: How Scientists and Students Interpret the Unexpected. D. Klahr, A Framework for Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology. S.B. Trickett, C.D. Schunn, J.G. Trafton, Puzzles and Peculiarities: How Scientists Attend to and Process Anomalies During Data Analysis. J. Shrager, On Being and Becoming a Molecular Biologist: Notes From the Diary of an Insane Cell Mechanic. R.D. Tweney, R.P. Mears, C. Spitzmüller, Replicating the Practices of Discovery: Michael Faraday and the Interaction of Gold and Light. P. Thagard, How to Be a Successful Scientist. D.C. Gooding, Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Visualization, Cognition, and Scientific Inference. M.F. Ippolito, Problem Representation in Virginia Woolf's Invention of a Novelistic Form. G. Bradshaw, What's So Hard About Rocket Science? Secrets the Rocket Boys Knew. T.P. Hughes, A Systems Ordered World. M.E. Gorman, Levels of Expertise and Trading Zones: Combining Cognitive and Social Approaches to Technology Studies. B. Allenby, Technology at the Global Scale: Interactive Cognitivism and Earth Systems Engineering and Management. M.E. Gorman, R.D. Tweney, D.C. Gooding, A.P. Kincannon, The Future of Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology. ...

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• Authors: Michael E. Tweney Gorman
• Assisted by: David C Gooding (Editor), David C. Gooding (Editor), Gooding David C. (Editor), Michael E Gorman (Editor), Michael E. Gorman (Editor), Gorman Michael E. (Editor), Alexandra P Kincannon (Editor), Alexandra P. Kincannon (Editor), Kincannon Alexandra P. (Editor), Ryan D Tweney (Editor), Ryan D. Tweney (Editor), Tweney Ryan D. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.07.2013
• EAN: 9780415654159
• ISBN: 978-0-415-65415-9
• No. of pages: 472
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Teaching of a specific subject, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Science & Technology