Exploring Natural and Social Scientists' Views of Nature of Science
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Tarih
2014
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Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
Science education researchers recently turned their attention to exploring views about nature of science (NOS). A large body of research indicates that both students and teachers have many naive views about the NOS. Unfortunately, less attention has been directed at the issue of exploring the views of the scientists. Also, the little research in the literature generally took into consideration NOS views of only natural scientists. This study primarily proposes to explore the views of scientists in both the natural and social sciences regarding the seven target aspects of NOS. The second aim of the study is to find out the similarities and dissimilarities between the views of scientists who majored in social sciences and those who majored in natural sciences in terms of the target aspects of NOS. The sample was 69 scientists representing 5 scientific disciplines from natural and social sciences. Interviews were employed for obtaining data. The data were analyzed by means of cognitive maps. This study revealed that the scientists in the sample have neither completely informed views nor completely naive views according to contemporary scientific understanding. Their views were a blend of the two in terms of almost all the target aspects of NOS. The views of the scientists in natural science and in social science were not substantially different. The scientists from both groups generally had similar viewpoints. This situation suggested that the scientists' views about NOS are not related to their scientific disciplines.
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Views Of Scientists, Nature Of Science, Natural Science, Social Science, Elementary Teachers Conceptions, Preservice Science, Students, Understandings, Knowledge, Beliefs, Issues, Impact, Say
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International Journal Of Science Education
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Q2
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36
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8
