The Identification of Progress in Learning

Herausgeber: H. Gerstrand, T.; Hagerstrand, T.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This series of essays discusses how progress is identified in a range of disciplines - physics, mathematics, biology, medicine, sociology, linguistics, art history, history, economics and ecology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780521106085
• ISBN-10: 0521106087
• Artikelnr.: 26010677

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Pushing back frontiers - or redrawing maps! J. M. Ziman
2. Assessment in physics H. Haken
3. Identifying progress in mathematics M. F. Atiyah
4. Progress and expectations in biology H. G. Gyllenberg
5. Assessment of progress in medicine H. R. Wulff
6. Scientific advancement in sociology R. Boudon
7. Progress in linguistics S. C. Dik
8. How is scientific progress assessed in art history? G. Kauffmann
9. The identification of scientific advancement: a contribution on history H. L. Wesseling
10. The identification of scientific advances in economics E. Malinvaud
11. Breakthroughs in ecology L. B. Slobodkin
12. Public knowledge, truth and the ways of scholarship advancement in western civilization S. N. Eisenstadt.