ISBN10: 0306458802, ISBN13: 9780306458804, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Softcover
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2000]
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ISBN10: 0306458802, ISBN13: 9780306458804, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The book's argument depends, as do most proposals in education, upon cer tain positions in the philosophy of education. I believe that education should be primarily concerned with developing understanding, with initiation into worth while traditions of intellectual achievement, and with developing capacities for clear, analytic and critical thought. These have been the long-accepted goals of liberal education. In a liberal education, students should come to know and appre ciate a variety of disciplines, know them at an appropriate depth, see the interconnectedness of the disciplines, or the modes of thought, and finally have some critical disposition toward what is being learned, to be genuinely open minded about intellectual things. These liberal goals are contrasted with goals such as professional training, job preparation, promotion of self-esteem, social engineering, entertainment, or countless other putative purposes of schooling that are enunciated by politicians, administrators, and educators. The book's argument might be consistent with other views of education especially ones about the training of specialists (sometimes called a professional view of education)-but the argument fits best with a liberal view of education. The liberal hope has always been that if education is done well, then other per sonal and ...
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[Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2000]

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[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]

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[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]

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[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]

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[Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]
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ISBN10: 0306458802, ISBN13: 9780306458804, [publisher: Springer Science+Business Media] Softcover Demonstrates the importance of history and philosophy of science. This book provides a case study of the pendulum, showing the pivotal role played by the pendulum in the Scientific Revolution. It describes how the pendulum enabled the creation of accurate clocks that, among other things, enabled the long-standing problem of longitude to be solved. Series: Innovations in Science Education and Technology. Num Pages: 468 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNU; YQS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 630. . 2000. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]

ISBN10: 0306458802, ISBN13: 9780306458804, [publisher: Kluwer] Softcover 2000. Kluwer. Softback. Book- VG. 9x6. 439pp. Some b/w illus. The pendulum has played a significant role in the development of Western science, culture and society. This argues that teaching the history and philosophy of pendulum motion is an ideal vehicle for realising some of the more ambitious aspirations for scientific literacy.
[Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2000]

ISBN10: 0306458802, ISBN13: 9780306458804, [publisher: Kluwer Academic] Softcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:0306458802
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2000]

Dordrecht Springer 2000 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 440 p. Contains: Unspecified, Illustrations, black & white. Innovations in Science Education and Technology, 8.

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Springer 2000 Trade paperback New Demonstrates the importance of history and philosophy of science. This book provides a case study of the pendulum, showing the pivotal role played by the pendulum in the Scientific Revolution. It describes how the pendulum enabled the creation of accurate clocks that, among other things, enabled the long-standing problem of longitude to be solved. Series: Innovations in Science Education and Technology. Num Pages: 468 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNU; YQS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 630. 2000. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.

Kluwer Academic 2000 Trade paperback This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 0306458802.

Kluwer Academic, Date: 2000. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:0306458802 2000. Kluwer Academic ISBN 0306458802 9780306458804 [GB]