Re: WOMEN'S WAYS OF KNOWING/physics courses

["Daniel L. MacIsaac" <macisaac@bohr.phy.nau.edu>]

> 	In a slightly different, but related vein, I ran across an essay
> by Michael R. Mathews offering a critique of the "constructivist" view of
> educational philosophy that you might be interested in reading.  It is
> entitled "Old Wine in New Bottles: A Problem with Constructivist
> Epistemology", and it is available on the web at
>
> 	http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/PES/92_docs/Matthews.HTM
>
> ******************************
> 	Not to be confused with "Old Wine, New Flasks: Reflections
> on Science and the Jewish Tradition" by Hoffman and Leibowitz,
> reviewed in NATURE for Nov. 27,1997.  I think NATURE has also had
> a review of Mathews' book, but I'm not sure.
> 			Regards and happy '98
> 				Jack
There's also an interesting discussion of constructivism in the new online 
EJSE at http://unr.edu/homepage/jcannon/ejse/ejse.html
this issue also has a survey of whether solutions manuals for physics homework
sets should be made available to students.  This journal often reprints
AJP materials.