The Role of Students in Pioneering New Fields of Science and Technology

Michael A. Rappa, Koenraad Debackere

ISBN 10: 1332280587 / ISBN 13: 9781332280582

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Print on Demand. This book examines the role of students in science and technological pioneering through a comparative study of neural network scientists. Pioneers who initiate research in the field during their studies are compared to those entering afterward, and to peers who join the field once it gains recognition. The author finds that pioneering students are remarkably similar to other academic pioneers in their motivations for entering and persisting in the field, despite common assumptions about student naivety and susceptibility to conventional wisdom. This suggests that the pioneering spirit may originate early in a scientist's career, challenging the traditional view of problem choice in science as determined solely by cognitive factors within science or social dynamics. The book's insights shed new light on the potential contribution of students to the emergence of new fields and the importance of nurturing pioneering spirit in education. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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• Titolo: The Role of Students in Pioneering New Fields of Science and Technology
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1332280587
• ISBN 13: 9781332280582
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Tipo di libro: print-on-demand item
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Excerpt from The Role of Students in Pioneering New Fields of Science and Technology: December 1991

A recent international survey of more than seven-hundred scientists working on the development of neural networks provides evidence that pioneering scientists are different in both their motivations to enter and their persistence to remain in the field.1 Pioneers are defined as those scientists who initiate and continue working in a field before it is widely recognized as significant, or perhaps even legitimate by their peers. In comparison to Other scientists, pioneers are more deeply influenced by the intrinsic intellectual appeal of the subject matter and are less influenced by the social dynamics of the research community. This conclusion holds when controlling for a scientist's age and years of professional experience. The results lend support to the contention that scientists' problem choices are determined by cognitive factors that are internal to science, while at the same time show the relevance of social factors operating broadly within a research community. Hence, pioneers may be an important factor to consider when sorting-out the long-standing debate over problem choice in science (for example, see Zuckerman, 1978; Gieryn, 1978; Ziman.

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