What is scientific thinking? : a discussion paper / by Hugh Munby.
What is scientific thinking? : a discussion paper / by Hugh Munby.
Corporate Author
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Science Council of Canada.
Publication Date
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1982
Publication Information
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Ottawa, Ont. : Supply & services Canada,
Physical Description
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43 p.
Subject Term
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Science -- Study and teaching.
Additional Contributors
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Munby, Hugh.
Summary
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Since science knowledge is growing in a way that makes it imperative for everyone to know how to handle knowledge itself, the task of getting clear about scientific thinking is imperative. Suggesting that scientific thinking (or critical thinking in science) is more than puzzle-solving and logic-wielding and avoiding a detailed philosophical and psychological treatise on the nature of thinking, some examples of what appears to pass for thinking are presented. These examples show that conventional ways of talking about "thinking" in science education are inadequate to the task of showing what students have to know as base to think scientifically. The nature of scientific knowledge is then considered to build some ideas about what it means to hold scientific knowledge, the essential points illustrated with extracts from science teaching.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780662120049
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic Prov Ref | Adult Non-Fiction Provincial Reference | 507 SCI2 | Being Weeded |