Aesthetic Experience in Science Education: Learning and Meaning-Making as Situated Talk and Action by Per-Olof Wickman

New. This book examines the role of aesthetic experience in learning science and in science education from the perspective of knowledge as action and language use. The theoretical underpinnings are based on the writings of John Dewey and Ludwig Wittgenstein. In their spirit aesthetics is examined as it appears in the lives of people and how it relates to the activities in which they are involved. Centered around an empirical analysis of how students and their teachers use aesthetic language and acts during laboratory and field work, the book demonstrates that aesthetics is something that is constantly talked about in science class and that these aesthetic experiences are intimately involved in learning science. These empirical findings are related to current debates about the relation between aesthetics and science, and about motivation, participation, learning and socio-cultural issues in science education. This book features: *an empirical demonstration of the importance and specific roles of… Read More

Routledge, 2014. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 185 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

T&F, 2013. Paperback. New.

T&F, 2013. Paperback. New.

Routledge, 2014. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 185 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.