Applied theory of science in higher education development

Abstract

The paper shows how the Theory and Philosophy of Science may contribute to a discipline specific higher education development with focus on the academic teachers' concepts about knowledge, teaching, and learning. It will be reasoned that a thorough reflection on essential scientific traits of any discipline has a purposeful impact on those concepts as well as on the practice of teaching and learning. The paper has been presented on the 10th conference of the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) in June 2014 in Stockholm.