Doctoral Dissertation Research: Scientists in the Classroom: The Structure of the Disciplines Movement in American Science Education, 1949-1964

该项目将提供美国主要科学课程改革运动的全面和分析历史。该项目将在战后科学界发生的组织变化的背景下，根据美国教育日益加深的危机，研究两个最重要的课程项目——物理科学研究委员会和生物科学课程研究的发展。这个项目将提供必要的历史框架来理解科学课程的基本概念的重新概念化，这一运动带来了它的社会影响。它还将成为公众传播科学知识的社会建构的案例研究。

This project will provide a comprehensive and analytic history of the major science curriculum reform movement in the U.S. The project will examine the development of two of the most significant curriculum projects, the Physical Science Study Committee and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, in the context of the organizational changes that occurred in the postwar scientific community and in light of the deepening crises in American education. This project will provide the historical framework necessary to understand the fundamental reconceptualization of the science curriculum that the movement brought about along with its societal implications. It will also serve as a case study of the social construction of scientific knowledge for public dissemination.