This anthology contains selected papers from the 'Science as Culture' conference held at Lake Como, and Pavia University Italy, 15-19 September 1999. The confer

Currents such as epistemological and social constructivism, postmodernism, and certain forms of multiculturalism that had become fashionable within science educ

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