The history of science and technology links many disciplines and cultures: scientific, technological, humanistic and social. Smith’s program in the history of science and technology is designed to ...

But if we embrace history as a lens for teaching complex accounts of science, we open possibilities for more critical and socially relevant classrooms. This means rethinking curricula, teacher ...

A common technique in science popularization is to take some modern scientific idea, and connect it to some much earlier notion. The classic example of this is the regular invocation of the ancient ...

Science, in practice, is a series of evolving processes informed by hypotheses and theories, with the hopeful endpoints of discovery and dissemination of knowledge to others. In a case study using ...

The history and historiography of information science : some reflections / W. Boyd Rayward -- The origins of information science and the International Institute of ...

Suggested Citation: "Part I HISTORY - 2 Putting Principles into Practice: Understanding History." National Research Council. 2005. How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the ...

AS its title leads us to suppose, this interesting volume is a plea for the recognition of folklore as a historical science. Seeing that the barrier between history and folklore is still unbroken, in ...

How does technical art history relate to the burgeoning field of heritage science? Has technical art history become part of heritage science? Can both disciplines be considered counterparts within the ...

Graveyard of the Atlantic, Indigenous peoples reconnect with a river and the oldest longleaf pine. Learn what makes the Outer Banks so deadly and how the Coharie Indian Tribe’s restoration of their ...