UNSW Handbook Course - History and Philosophy in Science Education

History and Philosophy in Science Education - EDST5204


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of Education
	Contact: Matthews,Michael Robert
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 8
	EFTSL: 0.167 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Excluded: EDST2204, EDST3204
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 5 (more info)

Description

Examines some central philosophical questions raised by the Scientific Revolution - the role of authority in science, the place of mathematics in science, the relation of sensory evidence to theory, the place of metaphysics in science, the construction and interpretation of experiments and how these can bear upon school history and science courses. Examines the extent to which individual learning recapitulates the history of science.

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