http://blog.oup.com/2009/08/graduate_science/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2009/08/graduate_science/#comment-153277 Twitter Trackbacks for How To Support Graduate Education in the Sciences? : OUPblog [oup.com] on Topsy.com Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:14:13 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=5386#comment-153277 [...] How To Support Graduate Education in the Sciences? : OUPblog blog.oup.com/2009/08/graduate_science – view page – cached Frederick Grinnell is Professor of Cell Biology and founder of the Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas. His newest book, Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic offers an insider’s view of real-life scientific practice. Grinnell demystifies the textbook model of a linear “scientific method,” suggesting instead a contextual understanding of science. Scientists do not work in objective isolation, he argues, but are motivated by interest and passions. In the article below he looks at how graduate scientific education should be changed. Read previous posts by Grinnell here. — From the page [...] [...] How To Support Graduate Education in the Sciences? : OUPblog blog.oup.com/2009/08/graduate_science – view page – cached Frederick Grinnell is Professor of Cell Biology and founder of the Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas. His newest book, Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic offers an insider’s view of real-life scientific practice. Grinnell demystifies the textbook model of a linear “scientific method,” suggesting instead a contextual understanding of science. Scientists do not work in objective isolation, he argues, but are motivated by interest and passions. In the article below he looks at how graduate scientific education should be changed. Read previous posts by Grinnell here. — From the page [...]

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