Reflection, science and the virtues /

Reflection, science and the virtues / / by Tony Gibbons.

The word ‘reflect’ appears in curriculum documents, in texts, in proposals, and in plans. No proposal appears complete without the word. To reflect is evidently a good thing, but what does it mean? It is not just being reasonable. Without a grasp of what it means to reflect how is it possible to imp...

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Gibbons, Tony,
Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam ;, Boston ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Critical Essays across Education ; 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Structure
  • Understanding
  • Sociology Of Knowledge
  • Longino’s Constructivism
  • The Science Curriculum
  • Comparing Worlds
  • The Enlightenment
  • Induction And Natural Kinds
  • Science As Practice
  • Science As Narrative
  • Science As Tradition
  • Science As Function
  • Science And Culture
  • Why The Virtues Are Necessary
  • Reflection
  • The Hard Core
  • The Virtues
  • Science, The Virtues And The Hard Core
  • Learning The Virtues
  • Wisdom
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Index.

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