Everyday Thoughts about Nature
Department
Biological Sciences
Document Type
Book
Files
Description
The primary goal of Everday Thoughts about Nature is to understand how typical ninth-grade students and their science teachers think about Nature or the natural world, and how their thoughts are related to science. In pursuing this goal, the book raises a basic question about the purpose of science education for the public. Should science education seek to educate `scientific thinkers' in the pattern of science teachers? Or, should science education seek to foster sound science learning within the matrices of various cultural perspectives? By carefully examining the ideas about Nature held by a group of students and their science teachers, Cobern argues that the purpose of science education for the public is `to foster sound science learning within the matrices of various cultural perspectives'. Cobern's two books, World View Theory and Science Education Research and now Everyday Thoughts about Nature, provide complementary accounts of theoretical and empirical foundations for worldview theory in science education. While many graduate students and researchers have benefited from his earlier work, many more will continue to benefit from this book.
Call number in WMU's library
QH51 .C63 2000
ISBN
978-0792363453
Publication Date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers
City
Dordrecht
Disciplines
Education
Citation for published book
Cobern, W. (2000). Everyday thoughts about nature : A worldview investigation of important concepts students use to make sense of nature with specific attention of science / by William W. Cobern. (Science & technology education library ; v. 9).
Recommended Citation
Cobern, W. W., "Everyday Thoughts about Nature" (2000). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 524.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/524