... and of course, as soon as I press send I remember about twelve
other strands to this issue.
Firstly: Anna, thanks for clarification. It's a while since I read
Layton, but I think he does make the point that Thatcher didn't invent
the idea. Actually, I think it's his point (just that first political
speech on topic was by her, and that it can be made to suit
Thatcherite policy very neatly).
There has been quite a bit on the nature study movement in the US,
which may or may not be relevant, depending on specific interests. For
example, chapter four of Elizabeth Keeney's (1992) The Botanizers
(Chapel Hill, NC & London: University of North Carolina Press).
In terms of health education, Elizabeth Toon did a useful synthesis of
issues/ research in Janet Golden et al (eds, 2004) Children and Youth
in Sickness and in Health (Westport, CT: Heather Greenwood Press)
85-106. But there is loads on this issue - do a search in any of the
history of medicine journals.
On creationism, there's Nelkin's (1982) The Creation Controversy:
Science or Scripture in the Schools (New York & London: WW Norton),
and possibly this chap's work, but it might not be historical enough -
http://sciencestudies.univie.ac.at/staff/joachim-allgaier/?L=2.
I found Julia Mickenberg's study of 20th century American left-wing
children’s literature really interesting on the politics of US science
teaching during the Cold War (there is a chapter just on science,
think it's chapter six).
* Mickenberg, Julia L (2006) Learning from the Left: Children’s
Literature, the Cold War and Radical Politics in the United States
(Oxford: Oxford University Press).
If you aren't already a member, the Institute of Education library is
a good source for history of education, especially in the UK. They
have pretty good histoy of education department, and Gary McCulloch
is apparently doing a history of Nuffield Science,
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/staff/EFPS/DIRE_15.html
Finally, Massimiano Bucchi did a paper in BJHS on the history of
classroom wallcharts a few years back:
* Bucchi, Massiniano (1998) ‘Images of science in the classroom:
wallcharts and science education 1850-1920’, British Journal for the
History of Science, vol. 31(2): 161-81.
Who wouldn't want to read a paper about this history of wallcharts? It's great.
Alice
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Dr Alice Bell
Lecturer in Science Communication
Imperial College, London
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/alice.bell
On 18 March 2010 13:33, Jon Agar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> mersenners -
>
> Could anyone point me towards:
>
> - any histories of science teaching/science education in different
> countries?
>
> - any suggestions of scholars currently working on the history of science
> teaching / science education?
>
> I'm aware of books such as Dorothy Mabel Turner's History of Science
> Teaching in England (1927) and have seen reference to DeBoer's A History of
> Ideas in Science Education (1991) for the US.
>
> cheers
>
> Jon
>
> Dr Jon Agar
> Editor, British Journal for the History of Science
> http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=BJH
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