This book deals with uncertainty and graphing in scientific discovery
work from a social practice perspective. It is based on a 5-year
ethnographic study in an advanced experimental biology laboratory. The
book shows how, in discovery work where scientists do not initially
know what to make of graphs, there is a great deal of uncertainty and
scientists struggle in trying to make sense of what to make of graphs.
Contrary to the belief that scientists have no problem
“interpreting” graphs, the chapters in this book make clear that
uncertainty about their research object is tied to uncertainty of the
graphs. It may take scientists several years of struggle in their
workplace before they find out just what their graphs are evidence of.
Graphs turn out to stand to the entire research in a part/whole
relation, where scientists not only need to be highly familiar with
the context from which their data are extracted but also with the
entire process by means of which the natural world comes to be
transformed and represented in the graph. This has considerable
implications for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
education at the secondary and tertiary level, as well as in
vocational training. This book discusses and elaborates these
implications.
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Implications for and Applications in STEM Education
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789400770096
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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