Overview
- Introduces an innovative approach to nature of science (NOS) in science education
- Synthesizes perspectives from the fields of philosophy of science, and science education
- Give a holistic representation of NOS
- Provides visual tools to support the teaching and learning of NOS
- Discusses practical implications of the Family Resemblance Approach to NOS for science education
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education (CTISE, volume 43)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Domain-specificity in scientific inquiry
- Epistemic practices of science
- Family Resemblance Approach
- Generative images of science
- Heidegger family resemblance
- NOS
- Nature of science
- Philosophy of science
- Science studies
- Scientific knowledge
- Scientific practices
- science education
- science learning
- learning and instruction
About this book
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 popularized by Wittgenstein, defining science as a cognitive-epistemic and social-institutional system whose heterogeneous characteristics and influences should be more thoroughly reflected in science education. They seek wherever possible to clarify their developing thesis with visual tools that illustrate how their ideas can be practically applied in science education.
The volume’s holistic representation of science, which includes the aims and values, knowledge, practices, techniques, and methodological rules (as well as science’s social and institutional contexts), mirrors its core aim to synthesize perspectives from the fields of philosophy of science and science education. The authorsbelieve that this more integrated conception of nature of science in science education is both innovative and beneficial. They discuss in detail the implications for curriculum content, pedagogy, and learning outcomes, deploy numerous real-life examples, and detail the links between their ideas and curriculum policy more generally.
Reviews
“This 8-chapter, 190-page, extensively documented Reconceptualizing book is a welcome addition to the field of Nature of Science (NOS) research in science education. … The authors of Reconceptualizing provide rich, detailed and practical evaluation of research literature across the whole NOS spectrum, and well work out their own elaboration of the FRA … . In summary, an excellent and richly documented book that will progress NOS research in science education.” (Michael R. Matthews, Studies in Science Education, Vol. 53 (1), November, 2017)
“Teacher educators would find the book useful, both for introducing theoretical aspects of NOS in their courses and for the cases and examples included in it. In particular, the generative images have potential to be worthwhile tools in weaving NOS in science education.” (María Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre, Science and Education,Vol. 24, 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science Education
Book Subtitle: Scientific Knowledge, Practices and Other Family Categories
Authors: Sibel Erduran, Zoubeida R. Dagher
Series Title: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9057-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9056-7Published: 02 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0539-2Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9057-4Published: 20 August 2014
Series ISSN: 1878-0482
Series E-ISSN: 1878-0784
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 189
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science Education, Philosophy of Science, Learning & Instruction