Overview
- Introduces many of the philosophical underpinnings of modern biology in detail
- Provides a clear and complete discussion of socio-scientific issues in biology education
- Discusses various case studies in different research contexts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Education (SPTE)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- Biology education
- Creationism
- Educational philosophy
- Genetics Mendel
- Inquiry learning
- Intelligent design
- Learning biology
- Logic of science
- NOS
- Nature of Science
- Philosphy of biology
- Science and religion
- Science and society
- Science education
- Social responsibilty of scientists
- Socio-scientific issues
- Sociology of education
- Teaching and teacher education
- Teaching evolution
- Tuskegee experiment
About this book
This book complements fact-drive textbooks in introductory biology courses, or courses in biology and society, by focusing on several important points: (1) Biology as a process of doing science, emphasizing how we know what we know. (2) It stresses the role of science as a social as well as intellectual process, one that is always embedded in its time and place in history.
In dealing with the issue of science as a process, the book introduces students to the elements of inductive and deductive logic, hypothesis formulation and testing, the design of experiments and the interpretation of data. An appendix presents the basics of statistical analysis for students with no background in statistical reasoning and manipulation. Reasoning processes are always illustrated with specific examples from both the past (eighteenth and nineteenth century) as well as the present.
In dealing with science and social issues, this book introduces students to historical, sociological and philosophical issues such as Thomas Kuhn’s concept of paradigms and paradigm shifts, the social-constructions view of the history of science, as well as political and ethical issues such human experimentation, the eugenics movement and compulsory sterilization, and religious arguments against stem cell research and the teaching of evolution in schools.
In addition to specific examples illustrating one point or another about the process of biology or social-political context, a number of in-depth case studies are used to show how scientific investigations are originated, designed, carried out in particular social/cultural contexts. Among those included are: Migration of monarch butterflies, John Snow’s investigations on the cause of cholera, Louis Pasteur’s controversy over spontaneous generation, the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, and the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scientific Process and Social Issues in Biology Education
Authors: Garland E. Allen, Jeffrey J.W. Baker
Series Title: Springer Texts in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44380-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44378-2Published: 04 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44380-5Published: 23 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2366-7672
Series E-ISSN: 2366-7680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 232
Number of Illustrations: 61 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science Education, History of Science, Philosophy of Biology