Integrating the sciences and society challenges, practices, and potentials

Social movement strategies and coalition dynamics in movements are two of the hottest arenas for cutting-edge research. Many case studies offer useful analytical windows through which we can understand the strategic choices made by individual movement organizations. Equally if not more important que...

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Other Authors Hartman, Hariʼet
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, UK : Elsevier JAI, 2008.
SeriesResearch in social problems and public policy ; v. 16
Subjects
Science > Social aspects.
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781848552999
1848552998
9781848552982
ISSN0196-1152 ;
DOI10.1016/S0196-1152(2008)16
Physical Description1 online resource (vii, 307 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • The importance and challenge of integrating scientific and societal perspectives / Harriet Hartman
  • Collaboration between science and social science: issues, challenges, and opportunities / Mary Frank Fox
  • Knowing a hawk from a handsaw: interdisciplinarity and STEM education research / Karen L. Tonso
  • Engineering ethics and STS subcultures / Joseph R. Herkert
  • Understanding earth resources: what's sociology got to do with it? / James D. Myers and Garth Massey
  • Teaching sociology to science and engineering students: some experiences from an introductory science and technology studies course / Trevor Pinch
  • Why sociology courses combined with a required STS project are mutually enhancing: the WPI experience / John Wilkes and Peter Campisano
  • Advancing educational reform: lessons from a collaborative workshop among engineering educators and sociologists / Roberta Spalter-Roth and Peter F. Meiksins
  • Pedagogical partnerships: faculty learning communities as a foundation for linking science and society / Anne F. Eisenberg and Andrew P. Herman
  • Improving educational change agents' efficacy in science, engineering, and mathematics education / Jeffrey Froyd ... [et al.]
  • The convergence of sociology and computer science / William Sims Bainbridge
  • The social sciences and the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM): toward the building of improved two-way bridges / William R. Freudenburg.

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