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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Fouad Abd-El-Khalick. A Longitudinal Study of the Representation of Nature of Science in High School Biology and Physics Textbooks

Augustin Aduriz-Bravo and Leonardo Gonzalez Galli. Teaching Darwin’s Ideas as Epitomes of Abductive Reasoning

Behiye Akcay. Effectiveness of Nature and History of Science Course on Turkish Pre-Service Science Teachers' Understanding of the Nature of Science Concepts

Hakan Akcay. How to Improve Turkish Science Teachers' Implementation of Lab Activities: A Case of History of Science

Diego Alamino Ortega. An overview about physics teachers preparation in Cuba

Ben Almassi. ‘Revolution in Science’ – Pedagogical and epistemological lessons of Eddington’s eclipse expedition

Maria Almeida, Roberto Nardi and Leandro da Silva. The function of scientific divulgation texts with historical approach as possibility to comprehend the role played by experimentation in the scientific production

Allison Antink and Daniel Meyer. Scientists' perceptions of the relevance of their research in pre-college classrooms

Xenia Arapaki and Dimitris Koliopoulos. Popularization and teaching of the relation between visual arts and natural sciences: historical, philosophical and didactical dimensions of the problem

Oktay Aslan, Mehmet Tasar and Necati Yalcin. Science and Technology Teachers’ Views on the Nature of Science and How They are Being Reflected in Classroom Practices

Varda Bar and Barbara Zinn. From Gilbert to Franklin: Early ideas about Electricity

Varda Bar and Barbara Zinn. How were high temperatures of solar atmospheres established by early spectroscopy?

Abhijeet Bardapurkar. Causal Structure of the Student’s Explanatory Narrative of Evolutionary Change: Towards the problematic of understanding Darwin’s theory of natural selection

Michel Belanger. History of Science and the Benefits of having Multiple Explications

Larry Bencze and Steve Alsop. Towards Communitarian Science Education: Epistemological & Ethical Arguments

Wendy Benoit. Teaching Introductory Science Students about the Process of Science

Pierre Boulos. The Rise of Academic Societies: Euler, d’ Alembert, Clairaut, and the Solution to Newton’s Headache

Melissa Braaten and Mark Windschitl. Towards a Stronger Conceptualization of Scientific Explanation for Science Education