Representing Science Literacies: An Introduction

Introduction Digital Literacies—Concepts, Policies and Practices

Th is book supports an emerging trend toward emphasizing the plurality of digital literacy; recognizing the advantages of understanding digital literacy as digital literacies. In the book world this trend is still marginal. In December 2007, Allan Martin and Dan Madigan’s collection Digital Literacies for Learning (2006) was the only English-language book with “digital literacies” in the title ...

Presumptive literacies in technology-integrated science curriculum

More than traditional curriculum modern inquiry-based technology supported curricula require that learners be literate. To design progressive technology integrated science curriculum for use and for learnability, it is necessary to understand the presumed literacies in the designed artifact and the ways that the designed artifact engages students in various literate activities... We explore the...

Modern Science and Vedic Science: An Introduction

T his journal provides a forum for research on the forefront of mankind's expanding knowledge of the universe. It is devoted to exploration of the unified field of all the laws of nature through the combined approaches of modern science and ancient Vedic science, as brought to light by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The identification of the unified field by modern physics is only the first glimpse of ...

Philosophy of Science : An Introduction

Representing Student Achievements in Science

In what follows, we develop a conceptual argument for expanding current visions of performance assessment to include the following three ideals: that performance/assessment addresses the value-laden decisions about what and whose science is learned and assessed and include multiple worldviews, that performance/assessment in science simultaneously emerges in response to local needs, and that the...