Topic
Deep time
About: Deep time is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 93 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1680 citations.
Papers published on a yearly basis
Papers
Book•
1 Dec 2005
TL;DR: Rudwick as mentioned in this paper examines the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we now call "deep time" was pieced together, and refutes the concept of a rift between science and religion in dating the earth.
Abstract: During a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth - and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Bursting the Limits of Time is a herculean effort by one of the world's foremost experts on the history of geology and paleontology to illuminate this scientific breakthrough that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus and Darwin did. Rudwick examines here the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we now call "deep time" was pieced together. He explores who was responsible for the discovery of the earth's history, refutes the concept of a rift between science and religion in dating the earth, and details how the study of the history of the earth helped define a new branch of science called geology. "Bursting the Limits of Time" is the first detailed account of this monumental phase in the history of science.
350 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a survey of 51 in-service teachers of 7- to 11-year-old children was conducted to identify the nature of idiosyncratic conceptions of deep time: a cognitive deep time framework of pivotal geo-events.
Abstract: As part of a continuing research program on the understanding of geological time (deep time) across society, a total of 51 in-service teachers of 7- to 11-year-old children was studied in relation to their orientations toward geoscience phenomena in general and deep time in particular. The first purpose of the research was to identify the nature of idiosyncratic conceptions of deep time: a cognitive deep time framework of pivotal geo-events. The second was to propose a curricular Deep Time Framework that may form the basis for constructivist approaches to in-service and pre-service teacher training which places deep time center stage. Three research questions were posed, addressing: (1) perceptions of geoscience phenomena and teachers' actual encounters with these in the classroom; (2) conceptions of deep time; and (3) approaches to teaching two curriculum areas (history and geology) which involve the interpretation of material evidence to reconstruct the past. Results enable the selection of 20 geoscience phenomena to be located in relation to teachers' interests and classroom encounters, those of high interest and high encounters being proposed as pivotal areas for further attention in teacher training. Results also reveal that in-service teachers conceive events in the geological past (geo-events) as having occurred in three distinct clusters: extremely ancient; moderately ancient; and less ancient. Within each category there is a strong lack of consensus on time-of-occurrence. Results suggest that primary teachers exhibit greater imagination in their teaching of history compared with geology and that aspects of deep time and past environments are not perceived as being of any great significance in the interpretation of geological specimens. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 38: 191–221, 2001
155 citations
Book•
25 Feb 2008
TL;DR: Thomas Allen as discussed by the authors argues that beginning in the nineteenth century, the actual geography of the United States became less important, as Americans imagined the future as their true national territory, and explored how transformations in the perception of time shaped American conceptions of democratic society and modern nationhood.
Abstract: Building a nation by envisioning the future.The development of the American nation has typically been interpreted in terms of its expansion through space, specifically its growth west-ward. In this innovative study, Thomas Allen posits time, not space, as the most significant territory of the young nation. He argues that beginning in the nineteenth century, the actual geography of the nation became less important, as Americans imagined the future as their true national territory.Allen explores how transformations in the perception of time shaped American conceptions of democratic society and modern nationhood. He focuses on three ways of imagining time: the romantic historical time that prevailed at the outset of the nineteenth century, the geological "deep time" that arose as widely read scientific works displaced biblical chronology with a new scale of millions of years of natural history, and the technology-driven "clock time" that became central to American culture by century's end. Allen analyzes cultural artifacts ranging from clocks and scientific treatises to paintings and literary narratives to show how Americans made use of these diverse ideas about time to create competing visions of American nationhood.
68 citations
Related Topics (5)
Performance Metrics
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 |
| 2024 | 60 |
| 2023 | 51 |
| 2022 | 75 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2020 | 18 |