Scientific Process and Social Issues in Biology Education
This book complements fact-drive textbooks in introductory biology courses, or courses in biology and society, by focusing on several important points: (1) Biology as a process of doing science, emphasizing how we know what we know. (2) It stresses the ro
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Garland E. Allen Jeffrey J.W. Baker
Scientific Process and Social Issues in Biology Education
Springer Texts in Education
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Garland E. Allen Jeffrey J.W. Baker •
Scientific Process and Social Issues in Biology Education
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Jeffrey J.W. Baker Wesleyan University Middletown, CT USA
Garland E. Allen Department of Biology Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO USA
ISSN 2366-7672 Springer Texts in Education ISBN 978-3-319-44378-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-44380-5
ISSN 2366-7980
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ISBN 978-3-319-44380-5
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Foreword
I must disclose right from the start that I had a personal experience using the present book and so I am very glad to have it published in an updated edition in the series that I am editing. It was in 2001 when I started working as a secondary science teacher. I had no training in the history and philosophy of science, but for some reason I always felt that these were important and relevant for science teaching. As soon as I started teaching, besides the numerous difficulties that a new teacher has to deal with, I also faced the problem of making my teaching of biology interesting and relevant to my students’ lives. Not having the resources that I needed, I started looking for a book which I might use for this purpose. It will not be a surprise for you then to read that the present book was the one I chose, and the one from which I benefited enormously for my teaching. The book by Gar Allen and Jeff Baker helped me put the science content I was teaching in context, and to also find examples in order to teach about what science is and how it is done. By using conc
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