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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459078103321

Titolo

Exploring the landscape of scientific literacy / / edited by Cedric Linder. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-91174-X

1-136-91175-8

1-282-91277-1

9786612912771

0-203-84328-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Teaching and learning in science series

Altri autori (Persone)

LinderCedric J. <1954->

Disciplina

507.1

Soggetti

Science - Study and teaching - Research

Research

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Overview: Scientific Literacy and the State of the Art in School Science Education; Part I: Curriculum Policy and Scientific Literacy; 2 Competing Visions of Scientific Literacy: The Influence of a Science Curriculum Policy Image; 3 Scientific Literacy for a Knowledge Society; 4 Scientific Literacy: Content and Curriculum Making; Part II: Exploring Language Perspectives; 5 Scientific Literacy, Discourse, and Epistemic Practices; 6 Scientific Literacy and Students' Movability in Science Texts

7 Literacy as Metaphor and Perspective in Science Education8 Bilingual Scientific Literacy; Part III: Exploring Themes of Scientific Literacy; 9 The Development of Scientific Literacy: A Function of the Interactions and Distinctions Among Subject Matter, Nature of Science, Scientific Inquiry, and Knowledge About Scientific Inquiry; 10 Scientific Literacy as Action: Consequences for Content Progression; 11 What Do Values and Norms Have to Do with Scientific Literacy?; 12 An Inclusive View of Scientific Literacy: Core Issues and Future Directions

13 Scientific Literacy for Bringing in the OutsidersPart IV: Science



Teachers' Professional Development; 14 In the Path of Linnaeus: The Development and Nurturing of Science Educators for a Complex World; 15 The Vietnam Consortium Fellowship Program; 16 Making an Innovation Grow: On the Shared Learning Within and Between Communities; 17 Professional Development of Teachers and Researchers in Collaborative Development of Teaching Resources; 18 "Struggling Up Mount Improbable": A Cautionary (Implementation) Tale of a Vision II Scientific Literacy Curriculum in South Africa

About the Editors and ContributorsIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Scientific literacy is part of national science education curricula worldwide. In this volume, an international group of distinguished scholars offer new ways to look at the key ideas and practices associated with promoting scientific literacy in schools and higher education. The goal is to open up the debate on scientific literacy, particularly around the tension between theoretical and practical issues related to teaching and learning science. Uniquely drawing together and examining a rich, diverse set of approaches and policy and practice exemplars, the book takes a pragmatic and inclusi

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910132083603321

Autore

Rousseau Jean-Jacques

Titolo

Essai sur l'origine des langues : où il est parlé de la mélodie, et de l'imitation musicale / / Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicoutimi : , : J.-M. Tremblay, , 2002

ISBN

1-55442-309-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Classiques des sciences sociales

Disciplina

400

Soggetti

Language and languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapitre I. Des divers moyens de communiquer nos pensées. -- Chapitre II. Que la première invention de la parole ne vient pas des besoins, mais des passions. -- Chapitre III. Que le premier langage dut être figuré.8 -- Chapitre IV. Des caractères distinctifs de la première



langue et des changemens qu'elle dut éprouver. -- Chapitre V. De l'Écriture. -- Chapitre VI. S'il est probable qu'Homère ait su écrire. -- Chapitre VII. De la Prosodie moderne. -- Chapitre VIII. Différence générale et locale dans l'origine des langues. -- Chapitre IX. Formation des langues méridionales. -- Chapitre X. Formation des langues du nord. -- Chapitre XI. Réflexions sur ces différences. -- Chapitre XII. Origine de la musique, et ses rapports. -- Chapitre XIII. De la Mélodie. -- Chapitre XIV. De l'Harmonie. -- Chapitre XV. Que nos plus vives sensations agissent souvent par des impressions morales. -- Chapitre XVI. Fausse analogie entre les couleurs et les sons. -- Chapitre XVII. Erreur des musiciens nuisibles à leur art. -- Chapitre XVIII. Que le système musical des Grecs n'avait aucun rapport au nôtre. -- Chapitre XIX. Comment la musique a dégénéré. -- Chapitre XX . Rapport des langues aux gouvernemens.