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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"New Science"”.
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The Constellations of Empiricism, New Science, and Mind in Hobbes, Locke, and Hume
… and negative tensions among the “unit-ideas” of New Science and empiricism are explored as they relate to explanations of aspects of mind in the Modern period. Some constellations of ideas are mutually supporting, and provide fruitful discussion on how mind can fit into the natural world. This …
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Satire of the New Science in England, France, and Spain During the Enlightenment
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William Dean Howells and the New Science: Darwinian Evolution and the Rise of Realism
… the possibility of a scientific foundation for a new literature combining close observations of the immediate environment with a method of interpreting these observations based on evolutionary science as Howells understood it. Charles Sprague's "The Darwinian Theory," published in the Atlantic in …
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Factors Associated With the Adoption of New Science Courses in New York State High Schools
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New Science Teacher Experiences in a Mentor Program with Same Content vs Different Content Mentors: A Qualitative Study
… knowledge on the experiences of novice secondary science teachers and what qualities novice science teachers find important in a mentor. This study investigates whether having a content-specific mentor affects a new science teacher’s self-efficacy, teaching practices, and career satisfaction …
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A new science curriculum : a study of pupils and teachers' perceptions of gender and science education, from a feminist, reflective practitioner's perspective
Concerns about the low representation of women in science and technology have been voiced for many years by scientists and non-scientists alike and have been the subject of much debate and research in education by governments and individuals. Current concerns about the underachievement of boys have …
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"A cognitive study of an elementary teacher's first experience teaching a ""new science"" unit and its relevance to the implementation of science programs"
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UNM Shock Tube Modernization
… to continue to push boundaries and discover new science.
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Massachusetts High School Teachers’ Perceptions Of Transitions In Teaching And Assessment Related To The Next Generation Science Standards
<p>The experiences and perceptions of high school science teachers with the transitions in teaching and assessment related to the adoption of the 2016 Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering Framework based on the Next Generation Science Standards were studied in this interpretative …
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How Do Secondary Science Teachers Understand and Implement Technological Design in Their Classrooms?
… study examined how ten secondary science teachers from a variety of different schools around the country understand and implement technological design in their classrooms. The results of this study indicate that these teachers were drawn to the tenets of technological design …
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Shifting worlds: Leading educational *change in a quantum universe
… educational leaders have been trapped in the old Newtonian paradigm. The conceptual portion of this study bridges the paradigms to suggest new ways to view school leadership for the twenty-first century, using New Science constructs, systems thinking, and leadership concepts of business writers …
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Vico's Narrative Art: From the Forests to the Academies
… The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico and The New Science. Finally, I conclude by showing the relevance of Vico’s pedagogical call to cultivate the child’s narrative imagination in childhood education today. It is my contention that Vico’s narrative art can revive the lost art of storytelling …
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The Political Aspects of Ibn Khaldun's Study of Culture and History
… in his Muqaddima the establishment of a new science called the science of culture ('ilm al-'umran). The primary subject of investigation of this science is aspects of human social organization. The ostensible purpose of this science is to provide historians with new analytical tools to …
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Stories of Miscegenation: Fact and Fiction of Interracial Life and Art
… is unconsciously informed by the same pseudo-science that is in dialogue with American literature, wonders what is real and looks to the biographical for comparison to the imaginary of literature. What she finds is a landscape of images and counterimages that suggest that the real of …
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Science on television : A representational site for mediating ideology
The emergence of a new science paradigm has been identified. It is characteristically described as structuring an organic, holistic and ecological framework for understanding the nature of reality. The modern scientific paradigm with its characteristic underlying inorganic, reductive, and …
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When You See It: Intersections of Formal and Informal Science Learning
… learning environments in the development of new science teachers. The context for the research is the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program, specifically; the first two-year post-graduation new teacher induction. This manuscript style dissertation …
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Complexity: Theoretical and methodological applications for sociology
… examines the usefulness of Complexity as a new tool for sociology. Complexity, as its own branch of study, developed from the new science of Chaos. Recent paradigmatic disputes occurring in the scientific community have been the force of a growing sense of change in the way many different …
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Eavesdroppers : how scientists are learning to listen in on the animal kingdom : four stories on wildlife and sound
… or birds at night. Sound gives scientists a new way of knowing what is swimming, roaming, and flying where. And some scientists are using these sounds for conservation, to identify the habitats animals need to survive and to protect the animals from human activity. Of course, as with any new …
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Losing the Cosmos: Arendt and Voegelin on the Origins of Modernity
… The Human Condition and Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics: i) the reversal of orders; ii) gnostic alienation; and iii) history. Chapter one situates the crisis in the work of Hannah Arendt, who contends that three pre-modern events––the discovery of America, the Reformation, and the …
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