Table of Contents

Belief, Learning and Education.- Knowledge, Education and Critical Inquiry.- Plato on Knowledge, and a Socratic Model of Inquiry.- Some Problems for Theories of Knowledge and Their Resolution.- Varieties of Constructivism and the Inaccessibility of Reality Argument.- The Aims of Science and Critical Inquiry.- Naive Inductivism as a Methodology in Science.- Hypothetico-Deductivism as a Methodology in Science.- Bayesian Methodology in Science.- Scientific Realism and Modelling Reality.- Sociology Versus Rationality in Science.- Lyotard,Postmodernism and Education.- Multiculturalism and Science Education.- Politics of Science and Science Education.