Solar energy, technology policy, and institutional values / / Frank N. Laird

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970466703321
• Autore: Laird Frank N.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001
• ISBN: 1-107-12071-3; 0-521-03429-9; 0-511-04626-X; 9786610432608; 0-511-15269-8; 0-511-30212-6; 0-511-17357-1; 0-511-50986-3; 1-280-43260-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 333.792/3
• Soggetti: Solar energy; Energy policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Solar Energy, Ideas, and Public Policy -- pt. I. Before the Energy Crisis -- 1. Framing the Energy Problem Before the Energy Crisis -- 2. Creating Policy for the Future -- 3. Advocates Construct Solar Technology -- 4. Solar Energy's Incompatibility with Official Problem Frames -- pt. II. During the Energy Crisis -- 5. Problem Frames During the Energy Crisis -- 6. Solar Advocacy in the Crisis -- 7. Limited Access: Solar Advocates and Energy Policy Frames -- 8. Solar Policy in Crisis -- 9. New Technologies, Old Ideas, and the Dynamics of Public Policy.
• Sommario/riassunto: Energy policies that promote new technologies and energy sources are policies for the future. They influence the shape of emergent technological systems, and also condition our social, political and economic lives. Solar Energy, Technology Policy, and Institutional ; Values demonstrates the difficulties of deliberating such properties by providing a historical case study that analyses US renewable energy policy from the end of World War II through the energy crisis of the 1970s. The book illuminates the ways beliefs and values come to dominate official problem frames and get entrenched in institutions. In doing so it also explains why advocates of renewable energy have often faced ideological opposition, and why policy makers fail to take them seriously.

Challenges in primary science : meeting the needs of able young scientists at Key Stage Two / / David Coates and Helen Wilson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966034303321
• Autore: Coates David <1948->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon, : David Fulton Publishers, 2003; Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : David Fulton Publishers, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-136-59929-0; 0-203-06372-4; 1-283-88421-6; 1-136-59922-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (111 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): WilsonHelen
• Disciplina: 372.35044
• Soggetti: Science - Study and teaching (Elementary)
• 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: Cover; Challenges in Primary Science: Meeting the Needs of Able Young Scientists at Key Stage Two; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Planning for challenge; 3 Assessment; 4 Sc1 Scientific enquiry; 5 Sc2 Life processes and living things; 6 Sc3 Materials and their properties; 7 Sc4 Physical processes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This practical and easy-to-use book enables teachers to challenge able children to develop their potential and to extend their thinking in primary science. It links theory to practice to develop understanding of what it means to be an able scientist; and empowers teachers to build ; on their existing good practice to build an inclusive science curriculum for able children. Special features include: photocopiable resources that are linked to the National Curriculum and the QCA schemes of work; teacher guidance on the use of these resources and how they can be incorporated into no