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One Legacy of Paul F. Brandwein

Creating Scientists

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  1. Deborah C. Fort

    1. Washington, USA

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  • Essays about Paul F. Brandwein’s teaching that encouraged a number of the high school students he taught between 1944 and 1954 at Forest Hills High School in New York to become some of America’s most important scientists
  • This volume points the way to a replicable method that teachers can follow in encouraging their pre-college students with a bent for science to choose to follow that inclination

Part of the book series: Classics in Science Education (CISE, volume 2)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Remembering Paul F. Brandwein: Essays

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      PDF

    3. Brief Encounters, Lasting Effects

      1. One Year
        • Deborah C. Fort
        Pages 37-38
      2. Research at a Tender Age
        • Deborah C. Fort
        Pages 39-40
      4. Encouraging the Uncertain
        • Deborah C. Fort
        Pages 43-44
      5. Saturdays at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
        • Deborah C. Fort
        Pages 45-46
      6. Question Everything
        • Deborah C. Fort
        Pages 47-49
      7. One Class Was Enough
        • Deborah C. Fort
        Pages 51-52
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About this book

Once again, our nation has a powerful need for a revolution devoted to creating scientists. As we face the challenges of climate change, global competitiveness, biodiversity loss, energy needs, and dwindling food supplies, we ?nd ourselves in a period where both scienti?c literacy and the pool of next-generation scientists are dwindling. To solve these complex issues and maintain our own national security, we have to rebuild a national ethos based on sound science education for all, from which a new generation of scientists will emerge. The challenge is how to create this transformation. Those shaping national policy today, in 2009, need look no further than what worked a half-century ago. In1957,SputnikcircledandsentaclarioncallforAmericatobecometheworld’s most technologically advanced nation. In 1958, Congress passed the National Defense Education Act, which focused the national will and called for scholars and teachers to successfully educate our youth in science, math, and engineering. It was during this time period that Paul F. Brandwein emerged as a national science e- cation leader to lay the foundation for the changes needed in American education to create the future scientists essential to the nation’s well-being.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Washington, USA

    Deborah C. Fort

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: One Legacy of Paul F. Brandwein

  • Book Subtitle: Creating Scientists

  • Authors: Deborah C. Fort

  • Series Title: Classics in Science Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2528-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2527-2Published: 05 February 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3160-8Published: 04 May 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2528-9Published: 16 February 2010

  • Series ISSN: 1875-3035

  • Series E-ISSN: 2213-2252

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 300

  • Topics: Science Education

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