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- Title
DIRECT EXPERIENCE IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE FOR GENERAL EDUCATION.
- Authors
Hubler, H. Clark
- Abstract
The article discusses the direct experience of the course physical science for general education at Wheelock College, Boston, Massachusetts. The course is a year's work of six semester hours and deals with five areas of knowledge: weather, electricity, the sky, atomic energy and the earth's changing surface. Great emphasis is placed on observation and interpretation of the immediate physical environment, yet stresses meanings that have a general value, in the belief that direct investigation is fundamental to science and that the scientific method is desirable in modern education. Direct experience in physical science at Wheelock, text, lectures and discussions are designed to make the direct experience meaningful. Students observations and interpretations are guided by the course outline, aided by numerous field trips with a class, by a list of reading references, by the lectures and discussions and study guide.
- Subjects
BOSTON (Mass.); MASSACHUSETTS; PHYSICAL sciences; GENERAL education; OBSERVATION (Educational method); UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; SCIENTIFIC method; CURRICULUM; SCHOOL field trips; LECTURES &; lecturing; STUDENTS
- Publication
Science Education, 1958, Vol 42, Issue 5, p431
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730420516