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  • Constructing Worlds through Science Education

    The Selected Works of John K. Gilbert

    by John K. Gilbert ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    Internationally renowned and award-winning author John Gilbert has spent the last thirty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the central and enduring issues in science education. He has contributed over twenty books and 400 articles to the field and is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Science Education. For the first time he brings together sixteen of his key ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Satellite Technology in Education

    Edited by John K. Gilbert, Annette Temple, Craig Underwood ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Broadcasting
    Satellite Technology in Education (1991) provides a coherent introduction to the potential of satellite technology in education. It begins with a brief technical history of some of the different systems, making distinctions between remote sensing, telecommunications and amateur radio satellites. It then examines the uses of satellite technology in the teaching of geography and environmental ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Communication and Engagement with Science and Technology

    Issues and Dilemmas - A Reader in Science Communication

    Edited by John K. Gilbert, Susan M. Stocklmayer ...
    Science communication seeks to engage individuals and groups with evidence-based information about the nature, outcomes, and social consequences of science and technology. This text provides an overview of this burgeoning field ─ the issues with which it deals, important influences that affect it, the challenges that it faces. It introduces readers to the research-based literature about science ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Science Teachers’ Use of Visual Representations

    Edited by Billie Eilam, John K. Gilbert ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the diverse use of visual representations by teachers in the science classroom. It contains unique pedagogies related to the use of visualization, presents original curriculum materials as well as explores future possibilities.The book begins by looking at the significance of visual representations in the teaching of science. It then goes on to detail two recent innovations in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Modelling-based Teaching in Science Education

    by John K. Gilbert, Rosária Justi ...
    Series Book 9 - Models and Modeling in Science Education
    This book argues that modelling should be a component of all school curricula that aspire to provide ‘authentic science education for all’. The literature on modelling is reviewed and a ‘model of modelling’ is proposed. The conditions for the successful implementation of the ‘model of modelling’ in classrooms are explored and illustrated from practical experience. The roles of argumentation, ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Supporting Self-Directed Learning in Science and Technology Beyond the School Years

    by Léonie J. Rennie, Susan M. Stocklmayer, John K. Gilbert ...
    Series series
    While much has been written about science education from pre-K through to postgraduate study, interaction with science and technology does not stop when schooling ends. Moving beyond scholarship on conventional education, this book extends the research and provides an original in-depth look at adult and lifelong learning in science and technology. By identifying the knowledge and skills that ... Read more

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  • Learning Through Teaching Mathematics

    Development of Teachers' Knowledge and Expertise in Practice

    Edited by Roza Leikin, Rina Zazkis ...
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  • New Dark Age

    Technology and the End of the Future

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    “New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about contemporary life.” – New YorkerAs the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is ... Read more

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  • Engineering

    A Beginner's Guide

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    Series series Beginner's Guides
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  • A Degree in a Book: Electrical And Mechanical Engineering

    Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject - in One Book!

    by Dr David Baker ...
    Series series Degree in a Book
    Written by former NASA engineer Dr David Baker, A Degree in a Book: Electrical and Mechanical Engineering is presented in an attractive landscape format in full-color. With timelines, feature spreads and information boxes, readers will quickly get to grips with the fundamentals of electrical and mechanical engineering and their practical applications.The separate ages of engineering are divided ... Read more

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  • Illustrated Guide to Home Biology Experiments

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    by Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson ...
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