Std-8 Science -Gujarati Medium
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Textbook Name: Science -Gujarati Medium Textbook pdf
Language: Gujarati
Class: Standard -8
Published by: Gujarat State Board of School Textbooks (GSSTB)
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Official Website: gujarat-education.gov.in
Std 8 Science textbook
We wanted to involve them as participants in these debates Further, we wanted prospective teachers of science to construct more complex understandings of science, particularly the understanding of science they would us as a basis for making pedagogical decisions. It is in everyone’s interest that students, and trainee teachers, develop ‘a more complex understanding of science’. William McComas’s contribution on ‘Dispelling the Myths of Science’ is a nice beginning to this task.
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We all know science is a complex matter: that metaphysics is an indispensable part of science, that theories are under-determined by empirical evidence, that science makes enormous use of metaphorical reasoning, that observation is colored by theoretical preconceptions, that political and personal factors enter into scientific decision making, and so on. Science effects culture, and is in turn effected by it.
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Any half-decent study of Newton’s mechanics illustrates all of these matters. But recognition of this complexity simply does not mean that ‘anything goes’, or ‘all ideas and world views are equal’, or ‘science is just a social construction’. The recognition that science is a complex human construction by no means implies the relativism and instrumentalism frequently associated with constructivist philosophy.
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The choice is not, as it is often put, simplistic understanding of science, or constructivist understanding of science. If, in the course of studying science, children are routinely made aware of its intellectual complexity, then they might be more immune to snake-oil merchants, and others, who gain adherents by promising to initiate followers into complex and ‘mind-blowing’ ideas.
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If children have thought carefully enough about simple old Newtonian ‘action-at-a-distance’, then their interest in complexity and metaphysics is being productively encouraged. One important consideration in teaching about the nature of science is that pointed out by Karen Dawkins and Allan Glatthorn in their contribution, namely:
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