Scientific teaching

By Keith S Taber2011-09-25T12:48:00

Keith S Taber reviews this text aimed at higher education teachers

Scientific teaching is aimed at science teachers at higher education (HE) level, and is intended as a ‘guide to improving undergraduate education in the STEM disciplines’.

The book appears to be based on the assumption that university and college teachers may be subject experts, but generally lack any sophisticated knowledge of pedagogy. They should therefore be invited to ‘bring to teaching the critical thinking, rigor, creativity, and spirit of experimentation that defines research’. In other words, to think about scientific teaching in the sense of teaching scientifically as well as teaching of science.

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