Overview
- Presents detailed ethnography of scientific discovery work
- Discusses new theoretical developments concerning graphing in uncertainty
- Describes direct implications for and applications in STEM education
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Graphing in a Discovery Science
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Retheorizing Graphing
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Uncertainty and Graphing in STEM Education
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Epilogue
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About this book
This book deals with uncertainty and graphing in scientific discovery work from a social practice perspective. It is based on a 5-year ethnographic study in an advanced experimental biology laboratory. The book shows how, in discovery work where scientists do not initially know what to make of graphs, there is a great deal of uncertainty and scientists struggle in trying to make sense of what to make of graphs. Contrary to the belief that scientists have no problem “interpreting” graphs, the chapters in this book make clear that uncertainty about their research object is tied to uncertainty of the graphs. It may take scientists several years of struggle in their workplace before they find out just what their graphs are evidence of. Graphs turn out to stand to the entire research in a part/whole relation, where scientists not only need to be highly familiar with the context from which their data are extracted but also with the entire process by means of which the natural world comes to be transformed and represented in the graph. This has considerable implications for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education at the secondary and tertiary level, as well as in vocational training. This book discusses and elaborates these implications.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Uncertainty and Graphing in Discovery Work
Book Subtitle: Implications for and Applications in STEM Education
Authors: Wolff-Michael Roth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7009-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7008-9Published: 01 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0103-5Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7009-6Published: 08 August 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 454
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations, 106 illustrations in colour
Topics: Science Education, Mathematics Education