Science and Technology

• Botkin, Daniel B, et.al. Changing the Global Environment. Boston: Academic Press, 1989. The book examines a wide vareity of environmental issues as well as global environmental changes and the extent to which technology can be employed to improve our global environment.
• Bybee, Rodger W.(Ed). Science, Technology and Society. Washington, DC: National Science Teachers Association, 1985. The articles in this book provide background, rationale, and goals for technology's and society's inclusion in science programs; it presents various curriculum materials, new approaches, and instructional strategies; and suggests methods for the theme implementation in traditional programs.
• Chalk, Rosemary. Science, Technology, and Society: Emerging Relationships. Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1988. This is a collection of articles that originally appeared in Science. Topics range from science and responsibility to science and ethics.
• Frazer, M.Y. and A. Kornhauser. Ethics and Social Responsibility in Science Education. Oxford, England: Pergamon Press, 1986. Essays presented at the ICSU Conference on Science and Technology in Bangalore, India, 1985. The book deals with questions of ethics and social responsibility in science education, and provides information on the efforts being made to deal with these problems in the practice of science education.
• Gibbons, Michael and Philip Gummett. Science, Technology and Society Today. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1989. Four different themes concerning STS are presented in the various chapters of the book: the nature of and origin of scientific knowledge; scientific knowledge and political authority; the economic impact of science and technology; and the control of science and technology. The book aims at providing teachers with basic information and some sense of how to approach each of the above subjects.
• Head, John. The Personal Response to Science. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1985. The book aims at showing that the relation between science education and the social context of beliefs and practices concerning science is closer than generally recognized. It sketches an intricate interaction between adolescent development, curriculum, and the biases in the ideology and the personality of the scientists.

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