The result of misunderstanding science by students is their inability as future citizens to impact science public policies. The solution argued last year included creating courses in science studies serving two purposes: destroy students’ stereotypical certainties about science and help them become “historical realists” in regard to scientific practices. But we also speculated that dismissing t...

Teaching Introductory courses in Computer science in a Liberal Arts College faces a lot of problems: different way of thinking for most of the students, hard topics, and students’ unpreparedness for disciplined systematic thinking. Active learning – building knowledge on the previous with progressive assignments, based on a constructivist approach, seems to be the path of effective teaching int...

The present article addresses the typology of the approaches to the science of the interrelatedness of the qur’ānic chapters. To this end, this science has been bought under typological analyses from the viewpoints of the past and contemporary scholars. In the approaches of the past scholars, topics such as the narrative origins and the backgrounds of this science, the chainlike relationship be...

The article discusses the creation of expression and idea historical epistemology. It problematized context rise what would be epistemology who have been pioneer author in introduction expression, traditionally considered as resulting from Dominique Lecourt’s book, L’Épistémologie historique de Gaston Bachelard (1969). possible options for affiliating are explored, pertinence attributing invent...

This paper summarizes a two-year professional development project with twenty-three inservice teachers. Teachers were charged with the task of developing inquiry investigations correlated with the Illinois Standards in a state funded project titled “Connecting Outdoor Instruction to the Illinois Learning Standards” (COIILS). Scientific investigations on the school grounds were developed, pilote...

The Argument: In its reconstruction of scientific practice, philosophy of science has traditionally placed scientific theories in a central role, and has reduced the problem of mediating between theories and the world to formal considerations. Many applications of scientific theories, however, involve complex mathematical models whose constitutive equations are analytically unsolvable. The stud...