From Kuhn to the Economics of Science: Curriculum Studies and Science Studies

2018 ◽  
pp. 9-43
Author(s):  
John A. Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Science Studies ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Curriculum Studies ◽  
Economics Of Science

The necessity to incorporate TQM and QA study into the undergraduate chemistry/science/engineering curriculum

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad A. Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Science Studies ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Engineering Curriculum ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Undergraduate Chemistry

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to define the necessity of total quality management (TQM) and quality assurance (QA) study into the undergraduate chemistry/science/engineering curriculum based on the consideration of current declining trend of science education, lack of social, business and technological implications with science, and for students to perceive science knowledge as useful, interesting and relevant. Design/methodology/approach – The course design is outlined as an integrated and part of the science curriculum where “student-centred” and participative “inquiry-based” learning approaches is suggested to teach TQM and QA. Findings – TQM and QA provide the opportunity to learn applied science and associated business consequences, enhance student motivation and engagements, improves decision-making and problem-solving abilities. Students become creative, develop thinking capability in a structured and logical way to express views, and evidently their knowledge-building efforts become apparent. Research limitations/implications – The impetus of the “unit course” design is to focus on the fundamental concepts and understanding of TQM and QA, develop basic knowledge and practices, and explain quality system development and continuous improvement process. Practical implications – TQM and QA study help students easily accommodate into the workforce; and enhance employability. Students achieve higher awareness of the social implications of science studies, better prepared to become future informed citizens, and take responsibility. Originality/value – The paper discusses the rationale of TQM and QA study in the undergraduate course, and explains the underlying causes for not being receptive in the higher education. The paper discusses implicated contents and issues related to TQM and QA required to consider for implementation and, in context of the outlined course.

Laboratory Life and the Economics of Science in Law

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Caudill
Keyword(s):  
Science Policy ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Economics Of Science ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Science Wars ◽  
Laboratory Life ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Commercialisation Of Research

Issuing a bold and, in light of current preoccupations with AIME, untimely call for the continued relevance of Laboratory Life, David Caudill’s chapter realigns the question of Latour’s value for legal theory. Rather than mapping the unstable, unpredictable movements of the legal trajectory – a term that, in preceding chapters, has taken on several perhaps inconsistent layers of meaning – Caudill proposes to reconsider the relationship between law and the sciences (and revisits some of the drama of the Science Wars) under the auspices of the economics of science, a flourishing sub-field of science studies veritably inaugurated by Laboratory Life’s influential discussion of cycles of credit and credibility. Deftly untangling the law-sciences-economics knot, Caudill stages the matter of Philip Mirowski v. Bruno Latour (and Michel Callon), in which the defendants were accused of complicity with neoliberalism and charged, by proxy, with the allegedly pernicious effects of the increasing commercialisation of research on the scientific establishment. Mirowski’s critique runs out of steam, Caudill shows, and runs off the rails as soon as the details of law’s appropriation of scientific research and evidence are examined. But the often dismaying implications of Science Wars-era disputes – now being recapitulated or replayed in miniature, in the economics wing of the science studies field and in legal studies – continue to haunt contemporary law as well as science policy, because it remains unclear to what extent judges and regulators (and legal academics) appreciate the material contributions of works like Laboratory Life to the improvement of our understanding of the sciences, and to what extent the co-production thesis developed by Latour, Callon and others still registers as a fanciful exercise in debunking.

Library and information science as a career in Kuwait

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 764-780
Author(s):  
Hanadi Buarki ◽  
Mashael Al-Omar
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Grade Point

The Library and Information Science discipline is in constant flux, facing myriad impediments with the development of technology. Per se, the field introduced information and communications technology into its curriculum which has changed librarians’ roles in information handling. Moreover, the integration of the term ‘information’ changed the nomenclature thereby giving a new name of Information Science/Studies, embracing an enormous range of subjects. The present study investigates the previous and current skills of alumni at the Department of Library and Information Science, College of Basic Education, Kuwait. Descriptive analysis of the distributed survey revealed frequencies and percentages data on participants’ gender, marital status, age, grade point average, certificate obtained, employment sector, years of experience, and salary. Qualitative data revealed comments on employment issues, difficulties faced, and the Department of Library and Information Science curriculum. The findings suggested that the majority of the alumni have benefited from their major as their employment is relevant (84%), it is within their specialisation and most of them (56%) are employed in a library setting. The most frequently learned skill is ethics (54%), and the skills that needed improvement are library skills and English language proficiency. The research data initiated a list of skills required and organisations employing the alumni. It is recommended that LIS alumni should be equippedwith multi-tasking skills to work at the job market institutions, and that LIS schools should start offering a PhD qualification in Kuwait. This research contributes to decisions in curriculum updating from the viewpoint of alumni to meet the requirements of the job market. The research is the first study to collect data from LIS alumni in Kuwait at CBE, PAAET and realises their concerns. Departments sharing a similar curriculum can benefit as the research is an initial step that should be regularly taken to update the curricula.

Application of electron holography to material science studies on magnetic domain states of small particles

1993 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 1028-1029
Author(s):  
T. Hirayama ◽  
Q. Ru ◽  
T. Tanji ◽  
A. Tonomura
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Material Science ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Phase Distribution ◽  
Carbon Film ◽  
Objective Lens ◽  
Electron Holography ◽  
Transform Method ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Thin Carbon

The observation of small magnetic materials is one of the most important applications of electron holography to material science, because interferometry by means of electron holography can directly visualize magnetic flux lines in a very small area. To observe magnetic structures by transmission electron microscopy it is important to control the magnetic field applied to the specimen in order to prevent it from changing its magnetic state. The easiest method is tuming off the objective lens current and focusing with the first intermediate lens. The other method is using a low magnetic-field lens, where the specimen is set above the lens gap.Figure 1 shows an interference micrograph of an isolated particle of barium ferrite on a thin carbon film observed from approximately [111]. A hologram of this particle was recorded by the transmission electron microscope, Hitachi HF-2000, equipped with an electron biprism. The phase distribution of the object electron wave was reconstructed digitally by the Fourier transform method and converted to the interference micrograph Fig 1.

A case study of a nontraditional basic science curriculum

1982 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 314-322
Author(s):  
GI Roth ◽  
RB Bridges ◽  
AT Brown ◽  
R Calmes ◽  
TT Lillich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Basic Science ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Basic Science Curriculum

Asserting parallel computational thinking into an undergraduate computer science curriculum

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edusmildo Orozco ◽  
Rafael Arce-Nazario ◽  
Peter Musial ◽  
Cynthia Lucena-Roman ◽  
Zoraida Santiago
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Computer Science Curriculum
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