sábado, 4 de junio de 2011

Libros de National Academies Press Gratis en PDF

La National Academies Press (NAP), que publica libros relacionados con las ciencias, educación, salud y tecnología, acaba de poner a la disposición de todos la colección completa de sus libros totalmente gratis en formato PDF.

Entre los libros disponibles están:


Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences, Second Edition.

While the mechanisms of evolution are still under investigation, scientists universally accept that the cosmos, our planet, and life evolved and continue to evolve. Yet the teaching of evolution to schoolchildren is still contentious.

In Science and Creationism, The National Academy of Sciences states unequivocally that creationism has no place in any science curriculum at any level.
Briefly and clearly, this booklet explores the nature of science, reviews the evidence for the origin of the universe and earth, and explains the current scientific understanding of biological evolution. This edition includes new insights from astronomy and molecular biology.
Attractive in presentation and authoritative in content, Science and Creationism will be useful to anyone concerned about America’s scientific literacy: education policy makers, school boards and administrators, curriculum designers, librarians, teachers, parents, and students.


How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition.

This popular trade book, originally released in hardcover in the Spring of 1999, has been newly expanded to show how the theories and insights from the original book can translate into actions and practice, now making a real connection between classroom activities and learning behavior. This paperback edition includes far-reaching suggestions for research that could increase the impact that classroom teaching has on actual learning.

Like the original hardcover edition, this book offers exciting new research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to a number of compelling questions. When do infants begin to learn? How do experts learn and how is this different from non-experts? What can teachers and schools do-with curricula, classroom settings, and teaching methods–to help children learn most effectively? New evidence from many branches of science has significantly added to our understanding of what it means to know, from the neural processes that occur during learning to the influence of culture on what people see and absorb.
How People Learn examines these findings and their implications for what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess what our children learn. The book uses exemplary teaching to illustrate how approaches based on what we now know result in in-depth learning. This new knowledge calls into question concepts and practices firmly entrenched in our current education system.

Otros libros de gran impacto incluyen los siguientes:

Surrounded by Science: Learning Science in Informal Environments

Ready, Set, SCIENCE!: Putting Research to Work in K-8 Science Classrooms

From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development

On Being a Scientist:A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research: Third Edition


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1 comentario:

  1. La ciencia siempre debería ser abierta en sus publicaciones y el acceso de los ciudadanos a los conocimientos que generan.
    Un saludo

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