An overview of the full conference schedule is available here:
Saturday June 27 |
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.
Saturday June 27th
9:00 - 10:30 |
Concurrent Sessions |
Session 3.1.1 (Auditorium)
Symposium: Science, Worldviews and Education
Panelists: Michael Matthews, Robert Nola, Hugh Lacey, Peter Slezak
Session 3.1.2 (Rooms 100-104)
• Fouad Abd-El-Khalick, A Longitudinal Study of the Representation of Nature of Science in High School Biology and Physics Textbooks
• Serhat Irez, Nature of Science in Turkish Biology Textbooks
Session 3.1.3 (Rooms 210-214)
• Christopher Phillips, The New Math and the Cultivation of the American Mind
• Robert Carson and Stuart Rowlands, On Abstraction, Formalism, and Proof – What can eleven year olds understand?
• Stuart Rowlands, Some Reflections on the Philosophy of Mathematics Education
Session 3.1.4 (Rooms 202)
Graduate Student Poster Session
10:30 - 11:00 |
Mid-Morning Break |
11:00 - 12:30 |
IHPST Business Meeting Location: Auditorium |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch |
2:00 - 3:30 |
Concurrent Sessions |
Session 3.2.1 (Auditorium)
• Renee Schwartz, The Approach and Effectiveness of Integrating Nature of Science Instruction during an Undergraduate Biology Course
• Wendy Benoit, Teaching Introductory Science Students about the Process of Science
• Devrim Guven, Assessing Epistemological Views
Session 3.2.2 (Rooms 100-104)
• Wendy Sherman Heckler, Does Professional Teaching Need a Scientific Foundation?
• Catherine Lange, A Study of Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understanding of Scientists
• Barbara Rascoe, History and Nature of Science Expansion with Inquiry
Session 3.2.3 (Rooms 210-214)
• Mike Smith, et al., Did Darwin understand the nature of science? Use of the terms knowledge, belief, acceptance, and understanding in Darwin’s Origin of Species
• Kostas Kampourakis and William McComas, Charles Darwin and the Human Elements of Science
• David Rudge, et al., A Study on Using the History of Industrial Melanism to Teach the Nature of Science
Session 3.2.4 (Rooms 112-114)
• Varda Bar and Barbara Zinn, From Gilbert to Franklin: Early ideas about Electricity
• Pierre Boulos, The Rise of Academic Societies: Euler, d’ Alembert, Clairaut, and the Solution to Newton’s Headache
• Varda Bar and Barbara Zinn, How were high temperatures of solar atmospheres established by early spectroscopy?
Session 3.2.5 (Room 202)
• Jesse Wilcox and Jerrid Kruse, Investigating teachers’ ability to reflect on authentic research experiences regarding their nature of science understanding and classroom implementation: A collective case study
• Oktay Aslan, et al., Science and Technology Teachers’ Views on the Nature of Science and How They are Being Reflected in Classroom Practices
3:30 - 4:00 |
Mid-Afternoon Break |
4:00 - 6:30 |
Symposium: HIPST: A European Research Project on the Contribution of History and Philosophy of Science in Science Teaching Panelists: Agustín Adúriz-Bravo, Sotiris Dossis, Andreas Henke, Dietmar Höttecke, Dimitris Koliopoulos, Vassilis Koulountzos, Panos Pantidos, Falk Reiss, Fanny Seroglou, Cibelle Celestino Silva, Giorgos Vleioras, Gábor Á. Zemplén Discussant: Michael Matthews Location: Auditorium |
7:00 - 10:00 |
Conference Banquet |
