How We Teach Science: What Changed, and Why it Matters

摘要

In this well researched and informative book, John Rudolph, a former high school science teacher, and now a university professor specializing in science education, shows that what goes on, or should go on, in the American high school science classroom has been the subject of vigorous debate ever since science first became a taught subject in the 1880s.Over the years, a long string of science educators, policy makers, and reformers have championed one method or another for conveying science to young students. Rudolph carefully chronicles the succession of methods, the personalities and agendas behind them, the arguments made, and how the methods succeeded or fell short, to be replaced by something else.