IHPST

2005

International History, Philosophy, Sociology & Science Teaching Conference

The Papers

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Papers are listed alphabetically by the lead author.

Cláudio AMORIM: Beyond Algorithmic Thinking: An Old New Challenge for Science
Education

Abhijeet BARDAPURKAR: REALITY, TRUTH and THE LOGIC of SCIENCE: EXPLORING STUDENTS’
VIEWS ABOUT SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
Abhijeet BARDAPURKAR: UNDERSTANDING NATURAL SELECTION VIA VARIATION AND ARTIFICIAL
SELECTION
Anthony BARTLEY: Examining Systems of Inquiry in Pre-service Teacher
Education
Larry BENCZE, Steve ALSOP, and Kelli HAZZARD: Influences of the Profit Motive on the Nature of Science:
Ethical and Methodological Compromises Requiring Attention
Sandie BERNARD, Pierre CLÉMENT: TEACHING HUMAN REPRODUCTION and SEXUALITY: A
HISTORICAL APPROACH in FRANCE since 1950
Janet BOND-ROBINSON, Amy Preece STUCKYA: Grounded Model of Authentic Inquiry for Science Educators
Agneta BOSTRÖM: CHEMISTRY STUDENTS’ NARRATIVES - HOW CHEMISTRY NARRATIVES
CREATE MEANING IN THE CLASSROOM

James CARIFIO: Towards A Standard Integrated Information Processing/ Cognitive Model of Learning
Robert CARSON, Stuart ROWLANDS: TEACHING THE CONCEPTUAL REVOLUTIONS IN GEOMETRY
Graca S. CARVALHO, Rui SILVA, Pierre CLÉMENT: Historical analysis of Portuguese primary school textbooks (1920-2005) on the topic of digestion
Elizabeth CAVICCHI: Historical Experiments in Students’ Hands:
Integrating Phenomena and Experiences
José A. CHAMIZO: We, teachers of chemistry, have become teachers of the history of chemistry … but which type of history must we teach?
Marjee U. CHMIEL, Trevor J. OWENS: ONLINE ANTI-EVOLUTION FORUMS: ANALYZING A SOURCE OF
NATURE OF SCIENCE MISCONCEPTIONS
Theodore CHRISTOFILIS, Margarita KOUSATHANA: Models in Science Teaching
Pierre CLÉMENT: Introducing the cell concept by both animal and plant cells:
a historical and didactic approach
Michael P. CLOUGH: Teaching the Nature of Science to Secondary and Post-Secondary Students: Questions Rather Than Tenets
William W. COBERN, Cathleen C. LOVING : Thinking about Science and Christian Orthodox Beliefs: a survey study of preservice elementary teachers
Harry COLLINS: THE USES OF SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE FOR SCIENTISTS AND EDUCATORS
Rick CONNOR: The Pendulum: Promoting Nature of Science Understanding and Professional
Development in Practicing Elementary Teachers

Kevin C de BERG: WRITING HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES for SCIENCE STUDENTS WHICH
GIVE DUE CONSIDERATION to TEACHING-LEARNING ISSUES and
NATURE of SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES
Sharon DOTGER: Using theories of epistemic cognition to evaluate the goals for teaching the nature of
science
Maria DRAKOPOULOU, Constantine SKORDOULIS, Krystallia HALKIA: HISTORY of SCIENCE in 20TH C. GREEK SCIENCE TEXTBOOKS of PRIMARY EDUCATION

Sibel ERDURAN: BEYOND PHILOSOPHICAL CONFUSION: ESTABLISHING THE ROLE OF PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY IN CHEMICAL EDUCATION RESEARCH
Sibel ERDURAN, Agustin ADURIZ-BRAVO, Rachel MAMLOK-NAAMAN: DEVELOPING EPISTEMOLOGICALLY EMPOWERED TEACHERS: EXAMINING THE ROLE OF PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY IN TEACHER EDUCATION

Juliana Mesquita Hidalgo FERREIRA, Ana Paula Bispo da SILVA: Teaching Multidimensional Spaces and Non-Euclidean Geometry by Analogies: Limits in Conceiving and Explaining Ideas

Richard GRANDY, Richard DUSCHL: Reconsidering the Character and Role of Inquiry in School Science:
Analysis of a Conference

Lena HANSSON, Andreas REDFORS: Students’ Views of Presuppositions in Physics A Report from Students’ Group Discussions
Eric M. HOWE: UNTANGLING SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA AND THE DISCOVERY OF
HETEROZYGOTE PROTECTION

Mercè IZQUIERDO-AYMERICH, José Antonio CHAMIZO: TOULMIN’S CONCEPTS AND PROBLEM CHARACTERIZATION IN CHEMISTRY AND CHEMISTRY TEACHING

Kostas KAMPOURAKIS, Vasso ZOGZA: Students’ Preconceptions about Evolution: Comments on the Accuracy of
Characterization “Lamarckian” in Connection with the History of Evolutionary Thought
huey-lien KAO, ming-chou SU, chih-hsien HUANG: A STUDY for DEVELOPING PRACTICABLE INSTRUCTIONAL MODULES to PROMOTE STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING of the NATURE of SCIENCE
Shoshana KEINY: HOW to INTEGRATE HISTORY and PHILOSOPHY of SCIENCE In the SCIENCE CURRICULUM
Nahum KIPNIS: Discovery in Science and in Teaching Science
Panagiotis KOKKOTAS, Panagiotis PILIOURAS: Bridging History of Science and Science Education: “The MAP prOject”
Margarita KOUSATHANA: Recent reforms in Greece and constructivist influence in chemical education

Catherine LANGE: Mission 2061: The Story of Science Reformer, F. James Rutherford
Pierre LAUGINIE: MEASURING: WHY? HOW? WHAT?
Ling L. LIANG, Sufen CHEN, Xian CHEN, Nafiz KAYA, April Dean ADAMS, Monica MACKLIN, Jazlin EBENEZER: Student Understanding of Science and Scientific Inquiry (SUSSI)
Lena LÖFGREN, Gustav HELLDÈN: Students’ Ideas and Reflections about Transformations of Matter

Katerina MALAMITSA, Panagiotis KOKKOTAS, Efthymios STAMOULIS: The Use of Aspects of History of Science in Teaching Science Enhances the Development of Critical Thinking – a Proposal
Lisa M. MARTIN-HANSEN: First-Year College Students’ Conflict with Religion and the Nature of Science
Lilian Al-Chueyr Pereira MARTINS: The Dissemination of the Chromosome Theory of Mendelian Heredity by Morgan and his Collaborators Around 1915: A Case Study on the Distortion of Science by Scientists
Roberto de Andrade MARTINS: Philosophy in the Physics Laboratory: Measurement Theory Versus Operationalism
Ralph MASON, Evan Janzen ROTH: Thinking like Archimedes: An Instructional Design Experiment
Laurence MAURINES, Arnaud MAYRARGUE: How the investigations of the students’ reasoning on waves and the history of physics can help us to develop research-based innovative units for secondary students on the velocity of light?
William F, McCOMAS: Teaching the Nature of Science: What Illustrations and Examples
Exist in Popular Books on the Subject?
V Mendizábal, E Sanfeliu and S Mendez: New Strategies To Promote Debate And Social Engagement In Science And Technology Issues Among The General Public
Pavlos MIHAS: Use of History in Developing ideas of refraction, lenses and rainbow
Juliette Mirzoyan: History and Philosophy of Science and Secondary Physics Education in Armenia

Joanne K. OLSON, Michael P. CLOUGH, Crystal N. BRUXVOORT, David W. VANDERLINDEN:
Improving Students’ Nature of Science Understanding Through Historical Short Stories in an Introductory Geology Course
Christiana N. OMOIFO, Andrew O UREVBU: Assessing Teachers’ Knowledge Base for Teaching and Communicating
Science as Human and Social Institution: Nigerian Case Study
Diego de Jesús Alamino ORTEGA, David Mario Díaz CALVO: Physics Teaching in Cuba: historical roots
Daniel OSEWOLD: DISCOVERING STUDENTS’ AND HISTORICAL CONCEPTIONS OF
MECHANICAL WAVES

Ioannis L. PARKOSIDIS, Constantine D. SKORDOULIS: Greek Primary School Students’ Knowledge on Scientific Instruments and their History. Implementation of Activities for Developing Spatial Skills
Rocco J. PERLA, James CARIFIO: Pseudo-science and Metaphoric Operativity: Making the Case for a Cognitive
Model of Scientific Change
Rocco J. PERLA, James CARIFIOA: Macro Model for Developing, Validating and Evaluating Nature of Science
Curricula and Instructional Materials
Demetris PORTIDES: The Relation between the Notions of Idealisation and Approximation in Science
Lucia PRINOU, Lia HALKIA, Constantine SKORDOULIS: Teaching the Theory of Evolution: Secondary Teachers’ Attitudes, Views and Difficulties

Andreas QUALE: RADICAL CONSTRUCTIVISM, and the SIN OF RELATIVISM
Marie-Pierre QUESSADA, Pierre CLEMENT: An Epistemological Approach to French Syllabi on Human Origins
During the 19th and 20th Centuries
Mario Quintanilla, Mercè Izquierdo, Agustín Adúriz-Bravo: Characteristics and methodological discussion about a theoretical model that introduces the history of science at an early stage of the experimental science teachers’ professional formation.

Falk RIESS, Peter HEERING, Dennis NAWRATH: Reconstructing Galileo’s Inclined Plane Experiments for Teaching Purposes
Jim RYDER and John LEACH: TEACHING ABOUT THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF SCIENCE IN UPPER
SECONDARY SCHOOLS: AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ CLASSROOM TALK

Jostein SÄTHER, John Harald MARIDAL: Controversial conceptual change described as action – A model proposal in the context of science education inspired by Icek Ajzen’s theory of planned behaviour
Hal SCHEINTAUB, Kali WILSON: MODERN PHYSICS TRANSFORMS a NINTH GRADE PHYSICS COURSE
Hayati SEKER, Laura C. WELSH: THE COMPARISION of EXPLICIT and IMPLICIT WAYS of USING HISTORY of SCIENCE for STUDENTS UNDERSTANDING of THE NATURE OF SCIENCE
Cibelle Celestino SILVA: The Role of Models in the Electromagnetic Theory: a Historical Case Study
Vasiliki Spiliotopoulou: Models of the Universe: Children’s experiences and evidence from the history of Science

Constantine M. TAMPAKIS, Constantine D. SKORDOULIS: The History of Teaching Quantum Mechanics in Greece
Andréa TEIXEIRA, Sonia KRAPAS: Electrostatics in Brazilian Textbooks

A.O. UREVBU, C.N. OMOIFO: Depictions of Philosophy and History of Science in Curriculum and Texts
in Secondary Schools in Nigeria

Athanasios VELENTZAS, Krystallia HALKIA, Constantine SKORDOULIS: Thought Experiments in the Theory of Relativity and in Quantum Mechanics: Their Presence in Textbooks and in Popular Science Books
Jérôme VIARD: USING THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE TO TEACH THERMODYNAMICS AT THE
UNIVERSITY LEVEL: THE CASE OF THE CONCEPT OF ENTROPY

Yalcin YALAKI: Science Teachers’ Worldviews: A Way to Understand Beliefs and Practices

Alfonso Claret ZAMBRANO: A CURRICULAR SEQUENCE BASED ON A HISTORICAL STUDY OF CONCEPTUAL CHANGE IN SCIENCE