Dewey's "Science as Method" a Century Later: Reviving Science Education for Civic Ends

Autor/in	Rudolph, John L.
Titel	Dewey's "Science as Method" a Century Later: Reviving Science Education for Civic Ends
Quelle	In: American Educational Research Journal, 51 (2014) 6, S.1056-1083 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-8312
DOI	10.3102/0002831214554277
Schlagwörter	Educational Theories; Scientific Methodology; Science Education; Science Education History; Scientific Literacy; Civics; Role of Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Staatsbürgerkunde; Bildungsauftrag
Abstract	Over a hundred years ago, John Dewey delivered his now-well-known address "Science as Subject-Matter and as Method" to those assembled at the Boston meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in which he lamented the nearly exclusive focus on content knowledge in early-20th-century school science classrooms. This article revisits Dewey's talk and examines the development of science education in the United States in the years since that address. Dewey's critique of science education in 1909 provides fertile ground for a renewed critique of science education practices today. It is argued that there is, specifically, a need to recover the rapidly fading civic aims of science teaching, which requires greater attention to the methods of science--the idea Dewey highlighted so strongly back then. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10