1. Beyond the Textbook: Reaching Out to the Context and to History

   • Ian Winchester

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 2

2. Introduction: Context and Thought Experiments in Science Learning

   • Stephen Klassen
   • Arthur Stinner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 5

3. Large Context Problems and Their Applications to Education: Some Contemporary Examples

   • Ian Winchester

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 17

4. The Large Context Problem (LCP) Approach

   • Arthur Stinner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 30

5. A Theoretical Framework for Contextual Science Teaching

   • Stephen Klassen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 62

6. The Promise and Perils of Thought Experiments

   • James Robert Brown

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 75

7. The Science Thought Experiment: How Might it be Used Profitably in the Classroom?

   • Stephen Klassen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 96

8. The Context of Thought Experiments in Physics Learning

   • Miriam Reiner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 113

9. What History Can Teach Us About Science: Theory and Experiment, Data and Evidence

   • Trevor H. Levere

   OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 128

10. Facilitating Chemistry Teachers’ Understanding of Alternative Interpretations of Conceptual Change

    • Mansoor Niaz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 150

11. An Ode to Imre Lakatos: Quasi-Thought Experiments to Bridge the Ideal and Actual Mathematics Classrooms

    • Bharath Sriraman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 178