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The following speakers are currently scheduled to present at the 2009 IHPST conference. To read an abstract, please click on the title of the presentation. Abstracts are sorted by the author's name.

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Alvaro Garcia Martinez and Mercè Izquierdo Aymerich. Scientific instruments and experiments from the eighteen century used as tools in a training program of chemistry teachers in higher education

Ron Good, Peter Slezak, Mike Smith, Ana Coulo, Michael Matthews, and Larry Scharmann. Symposium: Pseudoscience in Society and Classroom

Burcu Guney and Hayati Seker. The Use of History of Science as a Cultural Tool to Promote Students’ Empathy with the Culture of Science

Devrim Guven. Assessing Epistemological Views

Peter Heering. Developing and Evaluating Training Materials on Historical Experiments for Teaching Purposes

Ben Herman. Accurately Conveying to Secondary School Students Methodological Pluralism and the Importance of the Research Context

Serhat Irez. Nature of Science in Turkish Biology Textbooks

Calvin Kalman. Promoting Students’ Understanding of Science

Kostas Kampourakis. What is adaptation and what to teach about it?

Kostas Kampourakis and William McComas. Charles Darwin and the Human Elements of Science

Nahum Kipnis. Errors in Science and their Treatment in Science Education

Stephen Klassen, Don Metz, Peter Heering, Mansoor Niaz and Barbara McMillan. Symposium: Rethinking Historical Experiments: A Case for Didactic Analysis

Karynne Kleine. Reconciling Evolutionary Theory and Faith: A Case Study of the PhD Preparation of a Evangelical Baptist Molecular Biologist

Damjan Kobal. The Teacher’s Authority and Responsibility – A Historical Perspective on Recent Pseudo-scientific Metrics in Education

Vassilis Koulountzos. Atlaswiki - An Educational Wiki for Teacher Training in Scientific Literacy

Jerrid Kruse, Michael Clough, Joanne Olson, and Jim Colbert. Investigating the Impact of Historical Short Stories on College Biology Majors’ Nature of Science Conceptions

Jerrid Kruse, Michael Clough, Joanne Olson, and Jim Colbert. Student and instructor reactions to the use of historical short stories in a post-secondary introductory biology course

Jerrid Kruse. Teaching and Assessing Philosophical Issues of Technology in an 8th Grade Science Classroom

Hugh Lacey. ‘Science and Democracy’: Its place in curricula for the formation of scientists?

Catherine Lange. A Study of Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understanding of Scientists

Mark Lattery. Research on Student Model Formation and Development in Physics

Pierre Lauginie, Serge Guyon, Christine Azemart, Laurent Baraton and Alain Sarfati. “Les Magiciens de la Lumière”: A Film tracing the History of the Speed of Light

Mats Lindahl. Of pigs and men – understanding students’ values regarding the use of GM-pigs as organ donors

David Long. Darwin’s Hammer: An Existential Analysis of Resistance to Evolution