An overview of the full conference schedule is available here:
Thursday June 25 |
All sessions will take place in McKenna Hall. Room assignments will be posted as soon as they are available.
To view an abstract for a presentation, please click on the title.
Thursday June 25th
9:00 - 10:30 |
Concurrent Sessions |
Session 1.1.1 (Auditorium)
Symposium: The Search for a Philosophy of Science Education: Issues and Possibilities
Panelists: Roland Schulz, Michael Matthews,
Robert Carson,
Mansoor Niaz,
Peter Davson-Galle (Davson-Galle manuscript)
Session 1.1.2 (Rooms 100-104)
• Mehmet Tasar, History of Superconductivity and Possible Contributions to Teaching and Learning the Nature of Science
• Todd Timberlake, Exploring the Copernican Revolution through computer simulations
Session 1.1.3 (Rooms 210-214)
• Burcu Guney and Hayati Seker, The Use of History of Science as a Cultural Tool to Promote Students’ Empathy with the Culture of Science• Vivian Mozol, Can one improve a student’s value of pre-requisite knowledge by emphasing the historical role of pre-requisite knowledge in scientific discovery?
• Ami Friedman, But What Does It Look Like? Exploring the Use of the History of Science in One High School’s Biology Classrooms
Session 1.1.4 (Rooms 112-114)
• Zuraya Monroy-Nasr, et al., The Challenge of Teaching History of Psychology: a New Curriculum, a New Program and the Students' Previous Ideas (manuscript, slides)
• Jerrid Kruse, Teaching and Assessing Philosophical Issues of Technology in an 8th Grade Science Classroom
• Jose Chamizo, Heuristic Diagrams as a Tool to Teach History of Chemistry
10:30 - 11:00 |
Mid-Morning Break |
11:00 - 12:30 |
Concurrent Sessions |
Session 1.2.1 (Auditorium)
• Peter Heering, Developing and Evaluating Training Materials on Historical Experiments for Teaching Purposes
• 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
• Laura Welsh and Hayati Seker, Historical Ways of Doing Experiments for the Concept of Acceleration
Session 1.2.2 (Rooms 100-104)
• Andreas Quale, On the role of mathematics in physics: a constructivist epistemic perspective (manuscript)
• Sadhna Saxena, Constructivism and Science Education in the Indian Context
Session 1.2.3 (Rooms 210-214)
• Edvin Ostergaard, Darwin meets Wagner: the evolutionary idea and its expressions in biology and music
• Cathy Ezrailson, Explicitly Evolutionary: Blogging in the Classroom with Darwin and Wallace
Session 1.2.4 (Rooms 112-114)
• Calvin Kalman, Promoting Students’ Understanding of Science (slides)
• Ben Herman, Accurately Conveying to Secondary School Students Methodological Pluralism and the Importance of the Research Context
Session 1.2.5 (Room 202)
Graduate Student Session
• Anastasios Siatras, Science Education Curricula in the Context of Social Perspectives
• Glenn Dolphin, A preliminary look at the efficacy of a new instructional model for conceptual change
• Vassilis Koulountzos, Atlaswiki - An Educational Wiki for Teacher Training in Scientific Literacy
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch | |
12:30 - 2:00 |
IHPST Council Meeting |
2:00 - 3:30 |
Springer Lecture: Robert Pennock, "'Reason Enough for Scientific Researches': Darwin and the Scientific Virtues." For more information, click here. Location: Auditorium |
3:30 - 4:00 |
Mid-Afternoon Break |
4:00 - 5:00 |
Concurrent Sessions |
Session 1.3.1 (Rooms 100-104)
• Ana Coulo, et al., Teaching the Nature of Science in Upper Secondary Education: Implementation of A Research-Based Textbook Chapter
• Gultekin Cakmakci, et al., Facilitating an Inclusive Image of Scientists among Students: Towards Research Evidence-Based Practice
Session 1.3.2 (Rooms 210-214)
• Mustafa Cakir, Inquiry Experiences: A Dialogic Approach to Teaching Nature of Science
• Hayati Seker, A Facilitator Approach for Science Teachers to Integrate the History of Science in Science Teaching
Session 1.3.3 (Rooms 112-114)
• Hugh Lacey, ‘Science and Democracy’: Its place in curricula for the formation of scientists? (manuscript)
• Kamal Mahendroo, Scientific Temper and Science Education: Exploring the Concept and Linkages in a Multicultural Context
• Brett Merritt, Mind the Gap: An Examination of Scientific Concepts in Forests and in Lecture Halls
• Steven Tuckey and Brett Merritt, It’s About Time: Notions of Time and Classroom Inquiry
