Background To International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Group

HISTORY AND CURRENT STATUS

The International History, Philosophy, and Science Teaching Group was formed in 1987 in order to bridge humanistic, social, scientific, and pedagogical scholarship. The group staged its first international conference in Tallahassee, Florida in 1989, the second in Kingston, Ontario in 1992, the third in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1995, the fourth in Calgary in 1997, the fifth in Pavia, Italy in 1999, the sixth in Denver, Colorado in 2001, the seventh conference in Winnipeg at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba in 2003; the eighth in Leeds at the University of Leeds, England. The ninth has been awarded to University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.

The group has been associated since 1992 with the research journal Science & Education; it arranges the periodic publication of special issues of other academic journals devoted to 'History, Philosophy, and Science Teaching'; and it supports the periodic publication of scholarly anthologies based on journal contributions and conference proceedings. The conferences are attended by about 200-250 researchers and teachers from 25-30 countries. Full proceedings have been printed, or made available on CD, for each conference.

The group has been associated with special issues of other academic journals devoted to ‘History, Philosophy and Science Teaching’. Some of these are:

Interchange 37(1–2), (2006)
Interchange 28(2–3), (1997)
Interchange 24(1–2), (1993)
Interchange 20(2), (1989)

Journal of Research in Science Teaching 29(4), (1992)
Studies in Philosophy and Education 10(1), (1990)
International Journal of Science Education 12(3), (1990)
Synthese 80(1), (1989)

The group maintains a web site (www.ihpst.org) and an Electronic Mail list, of about 1000 names, for dissemination of information.

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