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HOW DO SCIENTISTS WORK?
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Williams, James |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Description | Children must understand how science works in real life so that distinctions can be drawn easily between the fictional characterizations that abound in books, plays, and films and how scientists really function. Understanding the work of scientists necessarily involves understanding the language of science and how science related terminology, which may have a vernacular meaning, can also have a specific, yet different, meaning when used in a scientific context. For most children, how scientists work is dominated by laboratory settings. This is reinforced by a pupil's own experience of science at secondary school level, where the activity of science or science lessons almost always takes place in a laboratory setting. R. D. Haynes notes also that the depictions of scientists often represent societal attitudes to science at the time of depiction. Science proceeds often by argument, by inference, by induction and by deduction. Book Name: How Science Works |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9780203838266-3&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 43 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| Starting Page | 31 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203838266-3 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2010-12-02 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: How Science Works History and Philosophy of Science Children Science Depictions Work of Scientists Laboratory Settings Real Life Really Function Societal Attitudes |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
