Learning Science

• Main Author: White, Richard T. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Basil Blackwell 1988
• Subjects: Science > Study and teaching; Learning, Psychology of
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• Item Description: Includes bibliographies and index
• Physical Description: xii, 227 pages illustrations 23cm
• ISBN: 0631156984; 0631156992

This book is about our learning of science; about how we interpret and acquire information about the universe in which we find ourselves. The scope includes, but is not limited to, formal schooling, for an important development in recent thinking about the learning of science is the recognition that people form views of the world from experiences outside the classroom, and that this learning may be more permanent and influential in their lives than anything they are told in school. Nor does the book only address learning by a restricted age group. Learning does not occur in stages, nor at only one period, but throughout life. It is an accident of social history that we concentrate formal learning of science in the second decade of life, and it is one of the tragedies of this century that for many people learning almost stops before they are 20 years old. Avoidance of that tragedy is a theme that recurs throughout the book. The psychology described here applies to all ages.