Analysis and case studies show that including different orientations toward the natural world
makes for more effective scientific practice and science education. The answers to scientific …

In recent years a set of radical new approaches to public policy has been developing. These
approaches, drawing on discursive analysis and participatory deliberative practices, have …

In the course of a decade of research on learning in technology‐centered classrooms, my
research group has gained considerable understanding of why and how students learn …

Gary Lee Downey investigates the body/machine interface in his remarkable ethnography of
computer engineers. Drawing on interviews, observations and personal interaction with …

This essay defines and critiques 'methodocentrism', the belief that predetermined research
methods are the determining factor in the validity and importance of educational research …

What does it take to be an international relations (IR) scholar? IR discourses have tackled
this question with focus on very different problems: the role and function of IR scholars for …

Focusing on the practices of Israeli archaeology in Jerusalem's Old City and the building of
the new Jewish Quarter (post‐1967), I situate the work of archaeology within a wider …

This book seeks to improve the way science is taught in the elementary school. It suggests
that there are three main contradictions that make it difficult for teachers and students to …

An analogy exists between today's “defenders” of science in the “science/culture wars” and
19th‐century “defenders” of euclidean geometry. Current critics have appointed themselves …

In 1996 the physicist Alan Sokal planted a hoax article in the journal Social Text, mimicking
the social constructionist view of science popular in the humanities, and sparked into life …