Good to see that this sort of thing still rates an exam subject.
In the early 1960s, my school was keen to maintain the torture, I mean to
keep us "exam fit". So in the year between O-level and A-level we did a
one-year O* GCE on history and philosophy of science. Way back then it was
all Galileo and stuff, but interesting all the same and one of the things
that made me realise that there is more to science than pissing about in a
laboratory.
Interestingly, I have just interviewed an 83-year old engineer who, when
appointed a professor at Dublin University, insisted on adding some history
to the four-year engineering course. His line is that you cannot really
master a subject unless you know something of its history. I agree
completely.
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Editor, The Science Reporter
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alice Bell
Sent: 10 August 2005 23:56
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] (Un)Intelligent Design (was [PSCI-COM] Content
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I've been trying to avoid this thread... but I've got some info (rather than
two cents) for anyone, like
Josh, who thinks there should be some philosophy of science in school
science
he mentions the Sci for Public Understanding A/S, but there is also a GCSE
syllabus along these lines
coming to a school near you: http://www.21stcenturyscience.org
This model won't please everyone, but seems to be the fashionable way
forward for english science
education, and models itself more than a little on post-PUS ideas. I have an
MA dissation on the
subject gathering dust somewhere if anyone has a real urge to know more.
alice
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Alice Bell
Science Communication Group, Imperial College London
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