Doing Science

Introduction - science education and science studies, Robin Millar; accomplishing scientific instruction, Jane French; bending the evidence - the relationship between theory and experiment in science education, Robin Millar; a study of pupils' responses to empirical evidence, Colin Gauld; the construction of scientific knowledge in school classrooms, Rosalind Driver; science as a discipline, science as seen by students and teacher's professional knowledge, Tom Russell and Hugh Munby; the social construction of school science, Joan Solomon; writing and reading in science - the hidden messages, Clive Sutton; waves or particles? - the cathode ray debate in the classroom, Ton van der Valk; adventures with N rays - an approach to teaching about scientific theory and theory evaluation, Patricia Burdett.