Index Catalog // Arch : Northwestern University Institutional Repository

Description:: The reforms called for by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) (National Research Council, 2012; NGSS Lead States, 2013) involve students using scientific and engineering practices to construct disciplinary knowledge with others. For this work to be meaningful, students need to understand what they were doing and how their actions...
Keyword:: professional development,, epistemology, argumentation, and modeling
Subject:: Learning Sciences
Creator:: Abraham Sillan Lo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/09/2019
Date Modified:: 02/09/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The goal of science education is to prepare students to make decisions about the complicated socioscientific issues that are an inescapable part of modern life, from personal medical decisions to evaluating a political candidate's environmental platform. We cannot expect adults to maintain a deep conceptual understanding of the current state...
Keyword:: media literacy, epistemology, science journalism, science education, and assessment
Subject:: Learning Sciences
Creator:: Brandy Liane Evans Buckingham
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/09/2019
Date Modified:: 01/09/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This project examines how early modern writers mobilize race as a vehicle for investigating far-reaching epistemological questions about the limits and parameters of human knowledge. While dominant trends in early modern race studies have focused on racial knowledges or particular identifications or formulations of human difference, I break new ground...
Keyword:: epistemology, history of science, race, literature and science, and colonialism
Subject:: English
Creator:: Meghan Daly Costa
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/09/2019
Date Modified:: 01/29/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

LIBRARIES | ARCH