SECTION ON HISTORICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES (L)

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Historical Perspectives on Games and Education from the Learning Sciences

This paper reviews three classic theorists’ writing on games, learning, and development. Piaget, Vygotsky, and Bruner all wrote about games and play as important to thinking and learning. This review attempts to synthesize their perspectives as a means to revisit underused theoretical perspectives on the role of games in education. The views of Piaget and Vygotsky are applied with respect to th...

Special Section on Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

With the possible exception of gambling, meteorology, particularly precipitation forecasting, may be the area with which the general public is most familiar with probabilistic assessments of uncertainty. Despite the heavy use of stochastic models and statistical methods in weather forecasting and other areas of the atmospheric sciences, papers in these areas have traditionally been somewhat unc...

Historical Research in the Atmospheric Sciences

JULY 2004 AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY | T his paper originated from a talk given at the sixth annual meeting of the Atmospheric Science Librarians International, at the 2003 American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meeting, on 13 February 2003. Because one of the themes of the meeting was the history of the atmospheric sciences, I was asked to give a talk about doing research on the his...

Testing times: regularities in the historical sciences.

The historical sciences, such as geology, evolutionary biology, and archaeology, appear to have no means to test hypotheses. However, on closer examination, reasoning in the historical sciences relies upon regularities, regularities that can be tested. I outline the role of regularities in the historical sciences, and in the process, blur the distinction between the historical sciences and the ...