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Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 10, Issue 1,
Foreword (Jun., 2009) Michael R. MATTHEWS History, philosophy, and science teaching: The new engagement
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Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 10, Issue 1,
Foreword (Jun., 2009) Michael R. MATTHEWS History, philosophy, and science teaching: The new engagement
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I have given here an account of what I see as the current engagement of HPS with science teaching and research; elaborations of this account can be found in Matthews (1994, 2000a, 2009a). New curricula are attempting to bring this engagement into the science classroom. The success of this will depend upon first introducing appropriate HPS courses into pre-service and in-service teacher education programmes. Science is one of the great achievements of human culture. If a richer HPS-informed understanding and appreciation of science, its methods and ‘habits of mind’, conjoined with familiarity with science-informed Enlightenment ideals, can be developed in science classrooms, then some beginning might be made in overcoming the well-documented crisis in contemporary science education, and also the daily newspaper and television documented myriad social and cultural crises the world faces.
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