University Science and Mathematics Education in Transition

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Skovsmose, Ole (Editor), Valero, Paola (Editor), Christensen, Ole Ravn (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Science education.; Higher education.; Higher Education.; Science Education.; Mathematics Education.

More than ever, our time is characterised by rapid changes in the organisation and the production of knowledge. This movement is deeply rooted in the evolution of the scientific endeavour, as well as in the transformation of the political, economic and cultural organisation of society. In other word...

Table of Contents:

• Changes in Teaching and Learning
• The Multi-Layered Transitions of Knowledge Production and University Education in Science and Mathematics
• From Assenting to Asserting
• A Reflective Science Education Practice
• The Development of a New Laboratory Course in Chemistry
• Assessment and Contract-Like Relationships in Undergraduate Mathematics Education
• Changes in Academic Cultures
• Cultural Models of Physics
• The Gap Between University and the Workplace
• The Culture of Mathematics and the Mathematical Culture
• Becoming a Teaching Scholar
• Changes in Structures and Organisations
• Conceptions of Universities as Organizations and Change in Science and Mathematics Education
• Reforming University Studies
• The Role and Means for Tertiary Didactics in a Faculty of Science
• Problem-Based and Project-Based Learning
• Changes in Views of Science and Mathematics
• From Anomaly to Paralogy
• Modernities, Sciences, and Democracy
• Towards a Critical Professionalism in University Science and Mathematics Education.