The Internet and the Truth about Science: We Gave a Science War but Nobody Came

Creator

George Meadows
Aimee Howley

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

October 1998

Abstract

Even though sophisticated discussion of the nature of scientific claims is taking place in the academy, public school teachers of science and mathematics may harbor naive assumptions about the way that scientific processes function to construct the "truth." Reluctant to change their prior assumptions about science, such teachers may become vulnerable to information technologies (including "low-tech" media such as textbooks and films) that construe science as a collection of facts. An on-line lesson about constructivism provided a forum in which a group of teachers revealed well-established epistemologies seemingly inimical to the principles of conceptual change teaching. ...

Keywords

Information literacy

Extent

11

Volume

6

Issue

19

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

E11-00110

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Recommended Citation

Meadows, George and Howley, Aimee, "The Internet and the Truth about Science: We Gave a Science War but Nobody Came" (1998). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 23.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/23