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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"representations of science"”.
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Representing science education in UK newspapers : a case study on the controversy surrounding teaching the theory of evolution and creationism in science classes
The thesis examines representations of science education in UK newspapers and focuses on the role of expert sources in a controversy about the teaching of creationism alongside the theory of evolution in science classrooms. The newspaper reporting revolved around the City Technology College …
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From erewhon to nowhere: the impact of science on late-Victorian science fiction
The aims of this research are as follows: • To investigate how late Victorian science fiction texts emerged in a period of dynamic epistemological change • To critique how representations of science were appropriated and naturalised in late Victorian science fiction texts. • To undertake a …
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The relationship between knowledge and power in the work of Amitav Ghosh
… published a monograph charting the development of Amitav Ghosh's fiction. Yet Ghosh is one of the most distinctive and influential writers to come out of India since Rushdie and, with five novels already published at the age of forty-seven, his fiction is continuing to develop in ambition and …
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(Re)presenting Human Population Database Projects: virtually designing and siting biomedical informatics ventures
This dissertation examines the politics of representation in biotechnosciences. Through web representations, I examine three emerging endeavors that propose to create large-scale human population genomic databases to study complex, common diseases and conditions. These projects were initiated in …