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Paul F. Brandwein was a man with many talents and abilities, a variety of interests, and a high level of energy. He developed and refined his beliefs, philosophies, and visions for what he thought were desirable outcomes for science education. He also tried to work out conditions and ways to help people to achieve these outcomes.
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I would also be able to use some of these data gathered by me and my coauthors Stanley L. Helgeson and Patricia E. Blosser in a 1977 publication on the history of precollege science education, The status of pre-college science, mathematics, and social sciences education: 1955–1975: Volume I. Science education. Columbus, OH: ERIC Clearinghouse for Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED153876).
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The third edition of this text (1986), written by Morholt and Paul, was being gradually revised in summer workshops at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006 and 2007. An unrevised edition may be digitized and made available on the Internet.
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Where I am now professor emeritus.
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According to its Web site summary, “ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text.”
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See Part IV, Appendix B, “Textbooks and Series,” for a summary of these contributions.
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Fort, D.C. (2010). Some Reflections on Paul F. Brandwein’s Impact on Science Education. In: One Legacy of Paul F. Brandwein. Classics in Science Education, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2528-9_16
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