Teaching the nature of science: perspectives & resources

Preface

Part I. Perspectives

1. The Nature of Science: From Test Tubes to YouTube

2. History as a Tool

3. Myth-Conceptions

4. How Not to Teach History in Science

5. Pseudohistory and Pseudoscience

6. Sociology, Too

7. Kettlewell's Missing Evidence: A Study in Black and White

8. Teaching Lawless Science

9. Nature of Science in an Age of Accountability

Part II. Resources

10. Christiaan Eijkman and the Cause of Beriberi

11. Rekindling Phlogiston

12. Debating Galileo's Dialogue: The 1633 Trial

13. Debating Rachel Carson's Silent Spring 1963

14. Collecting Cases

Notes

References

Acknowledgements

Index