Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science Education Scientific Knowledge, Practices and Other Family Categories /

• Main Authors: Erduran, Sibel (Author), Dagher, Zoubeida R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education, 43
• Subjects: Education.; Philosophy and science.; Science education.; Science Education.; Philosophy of Science.; Learning & Instruction.

Prompted by the ongoing debate among science educators over ‘nature of science’, and its importance in school and university curricula, this book is a clarion call for a broad re-conceptualizing of nature of science in science education. The authors draw on the ‘family resemblance’ approach populari...

Table of Contents:

• Dedication.- Foreword
• Preface.- Chapter 1. Reconceptualizing nature of science for science education
• Chapter 2. Family Resemblance Approach to characterizing science
• Chapter 3. Aims and values of science
• Chapter 4. Scientific practices
• Chapter 5. Methods and methodological rules in science
• Chapter 6. Scientific knowledge
• Chapter 7. Science as a social-institutional system
• Chapter 8. Towards “Generative Images of Science” in educational contexts
• Index.