Term
Spring 2024
Capstone
Capstone Project
Degree Name
MAED: NSEE
Facilitator(s)
Julianne Scullen
Content Expert
Travis Novak
Abstract
This capstone project explores the question of the philosophical ideas that have given rise to modern conventions of teaching and learning science, and what alternatives exist to these methods. By exploring the philosophies that underpin our modern methods of science teaching and learning, and how have they come to dominate the space of scientific thought, the author has created a website resource for teachers to use for professional development, to learn about the philosophical history of science, in order to fully understand the reasons why science operates within specifically empirical and mechanistic paradigms. The project includes an interactive historical timeline integrating multimedia to tell the story of the history of science parallel to shifts in Western philosophical thought. In addition to exploring this history, the author analyzed state standards to make clear the ways that our conventions of teaching science continue to advance an anthropocentric and mechanistic worldview. Finally, the project contains a resource bank for educators to use to incorporate concepts and practices into their teaching that uphold an organismic worldview, valuing observation, studies phenomena in-context, and centers around community and place-based knowledge. As we look forward to the future of science education, and knowing our history, it’s our responsibility to make choices in our instruction that divest from anthropocentric and domineering relation to the natural world, and look to sustainable communities as guides for teaching science in a way that advances and sustains the wellbeing of individuals, communities, and our shared planet.
Project Type
Website Creation
Keywords
Science, Staff Development, Native Science
Recommended Citation
Steele, Rebecca, "The History of the Philosophy of Science and its Impacts on Modern Science Education" (2024). School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects. 1022.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/hse_cp/1022
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text
dc_publisher
DigitalCommons@Hamline
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application/pdf
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School of Education Student Capstone Projects