Dear Mersenne Colleagues,

 

The May IHPST newsletter is now available on the web at:

 

http://ihpst.net/newsletters/

 

Please note at item #1 that the current journal issue contains Select Proceedings of the First IHPST Latin American regional conference.  And at item  #4 that submission date for the First IHPST Asian regional conference is June 1^st. 

 

CONTENTS

 

1.            Science & Education Journal, Volume 21 Number 5

2.            Science & Education Journal, Report

(a) Rationale and Purpose of the Journal

(b) Journal on the Web

(c) Manuscript Submissions

(d) Copyediting Assistance Required for Manuscripts from Non-Anglo Authors

(e) Article Downloads

(f) Journal Indexing

(g) Thematic Issues

(h) Journal Reviewing

3.            Journal Special Issue: Mendel, Mendelism and Education: 150 years since the “Versuche”

4.            First IHPST Asian Regional Conference, Seoul October 18-20, 2012

5.            Second IHPST Latin American Regional Conference, Mendoza, 3-6 October 2012

6.         Second IHPST Nordic Regional Meeting, Helsinki, 24 -26 October 2012

7.         Ninth International Conference for the History of Science in Science Education, Flensburg July 30–August 3, 2012

8.            5th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Athens November 1-3, 2012

9.            Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation, Third Conference, October 5-6, 2012, University of Colorado, Boulder

10.         British Society for the History of Science, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, History of Science Society, Pennsylvania, 11-14 July, 2012

11.       epiSTEME 5: Fifth International Conference on Science,Technology and Mathematics Education Research, January 7-11, 2013, Mumbai, India

12.         Book Reviews

 

(i)           Peter Heering and Roland Wittje (eds.) (2011):  Learning by Doing:  Experiments and Instruments in the History of Science Teaching, Franz Steiner Verlag,

[ELIZABETH CAVICCHI]

(ii)          Heather E. Douglas (2009): Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal. University of Pittsburgh Press

[JOSÉ LUIS LUJÁN]

(iii)         Sandra Mitchell (2009) Unsimple Truths. Science, Complexity, and Policy. The University of Chicago Press

[JEROEN VAN BOUWEL]

(iv)         Myint Swe Khine (ed.) (2012): Advances in Nature of Science Research: Concepts and Methodologies, Springer

[ESTHER M. VAN DIJK]

(v)       Dennis R. Alexander and Ronald L. Numbers.(eds) (2010): Biology and Ideology: From Descartes to Dawkins, University of Chicago Press

[MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI]

(vi)         Steffen Ducheyne (2012) The Main Business of Natural Philosophy: Isaac Newton’s Natural-Philosophical Methodology. Springer

[JOHN HENRY]

 

13.         Coming Conferences

14.         IHPST Council (2011-13)

15.         IHPST Email List

16.         Newsletter Items

 

 

Regards,

 

 

 

Michael Matthews

 

 

 

 

 

A/Professor Michael R. Matthews

School of Education

University of New South Wales
Australia

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Editor Science & Education

http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/science+education/journal/11191

President, Inter-Divisional Teaching Commission of DHST/DLMPS of IUHPS

www.idtc-iuhps.org