Design for Professional Reading - Griff Jones 12/98

This is an informal, incomplete list of readings and links related to my research interests.

1. Journals and Periodicals:

General Education Research:

Journal of Educational Research

Cognition and Instruction

Kappan - Phi Delta Kappa Journal

Science Education Research:

Journal of Research in Science Teaching - NARST Journal

International Journal of Science Education

Science & Education - Contributions from History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science & Ed.

Practioner Journals:

The Physics Teacher- American Association of Physics

Journal of College Science Teaching- NSTA Journal

Science & Children- NSTA Journal

Science Scope- NSTA Journal

Science Teacher- NSTA Journal

Science Process & Content Journals:

Discover Magazine - general science journal

Scientific American - general science journal

Science Process & Content Electronic Journals:

Breakthrough -newsletter about important developments in science and technology

http://www.lucifer.com/~sean/BT/

Cornell Science & Technology Magazine

http://www.englib.cornell.edu/scitech/

Exploratorium's What's New in the World

http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/news

2. Books:

History of Science

Harre', R. The Philosophies of Science

Henry, John. The Scientific Revolution & the Origins of Modern Science

Kuhn, Thomas. The Copernican Revolution

Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of the Scientific Revolution

Lindberg, David. The Beginnings of Western Science

Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World

Schiebinger, Londa. The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science

Toulmin & Goodfield. The Fabric of the Heavens

Westfall, Richard. The Construction of Modern Science

Science Content and Process

Asimov, Issac. New Guide to Science

Einstein, Albert. Relativity, The Special and the General Theory

Feynman, Richard. Six Easy Pieces

Feynman, Richard. Lectures on Physics

Hawkins, Stephen. A Brief History of Time

Weinburg, Steven. The First Three Minutes

Philosophy of Education

Darling-Hammond, Linda. The Right To Learn

Palmer, Parker. The Courage To Teach

Marshal, H. (Ed.). Redifining Student Learning: Roots of Educational Change

Rhoton, Jack and Patricia Bowers, Issues in Science Education, NSTA, 1995

Science Education

Matthews, Michael. (1994) Science Teaching - The Role of History and Philosophy of Science

Tobin, Kahle, Fraser. (1990) Windows into Science Classrooms: Problems Associated with Higher Cognitive Learning

3. Bibliographic Tools:

General Education:

Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database

http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/index.html

EDUCAUSE -Tansforming Education Through Information Technologies

http://www.educause.edu/

U.S. Department of Education

http://www.ed.gov/index.html

Instructional Technology Research Online

http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwitr/research.html

World Wide Web Sites for Educators

http://www.coe.ufl.edu/Courses/EdTech/Sites/EdResources.html

History:

History of Science Society

http://weber.u.washington.edu/~hssexec/

Eighteenth Century Resources

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/

Ancient World Web

http://www.julen.net/aw/

Argos - Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet

http://argos.evansville.edu/

WWW-VL The History Index

http://argos.evansville.edu/

History Deptarment form Around the World

http://chnm.gmu.edu/history/depts/

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

http:/www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/hstm_ove.htm

Science Education:

NSTA

http://www.nsta.org

Association for the Education of Teachers in Science

http://science.cc.uwf.edu/aets/aets/aaets.html

Science Content & Process:

The American Association for the Advancement of Science

http://www.aaas.org/

National Science Foundation

http://www.nsf.gov/

NASA

http://www.nasa,gov/

4. ReferenceTools

Educational Research:

Handbook of Research on Teaching 3rd Edition, A.E.R.A., (Ed.) Merlin Wittrock, 1986

Handbook of Research on Science Teaching and Learning, Gabel,D. (Ed.) NSTA, 1994

Science for All Americans, Rutherford & Ahlgren, Project 2061, AAAS, 1990

Benchmarks for Science Literacy, AAAS, 1993

National Science Education Standards. National Research Council, 1995

What Research Says To The Science Teacher, Vol. 6, Process of Knowing, M.B. Rowe

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