Article
Education & Educational Research
Xiaoming Shi
Summary: Numerous studies have shown that teaching the history and philosophy of science (POS) can help improve senior high school students' scientific literacy. This research analyzes the overlap between the conceptualizations of the nature of science (NOS) and the POS. The empirical results show that students who participated in this POS course significantly improved their scientific literacy and their understanding of the relationships among science, technology, and society.
SCIENCE & EDUCATION
(2023)
Review
Education & Educational Research
Wencheng Liu, Xiaofei Li, Gaofeng Li
Summary: The philosophy of science has made significant contributions to science education, particularly in enhancing conceptual understanding and knowledge of the nature of science. However, implementing it in education faces challenges such as unclear teaching objectives and a lack of perspective in textbooks.
SCIENCE & EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Management
Wallace J. Hopp, David Simchi-Levi
Summary: This paper examines the performance of Management Science in promoting the development and application of a science of management for its 65th anniversary. It also discusses recent trends impacting this mission and how recent initiatives are addressing these issues.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Cristiano B. Moura, Matheus Monteiro Nascimento, Nathan Willig Lima
Summary: This article discusses the roles of HPSS in Science Education in the context of COVID-19 crisis and explores the intertwining of politics and science in public controversies surrounding the pandemic. The Brazilian case is analyzed in detail, and implications for Science Education research and practices are proposed based on educational scholarship and previous discussions.
SCIENCE & EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Vitaly Pronskikh, Galina V. Sorina
Summary: This article introduces an elective course on the philosophy of scientific experimentation for young scientists and graduate students of natural science, aiming to develop critical thinking skills, familiarize with philosophical problems, and deepen the understanding of features of scientific practice and issues in megascience.
SCIENCE & EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Philippe Charlier, Simon Donnell, Donatella Lippi, Andreas Nerlich, Victor Asensi, Antonio Perciaccante, Otto Appenzeller, Raffaella Bianucci
Summary: This article discusses the importance of paleomedicine in the field of medicine and biology, advocating for intensified research and the establishment of a distinct branch in paleopathology and medical history.
POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Jose Arao, Laurinda Leite, Emilia Nhalevilo
Summary: Chemistry students should not only learn the key concepts and processes of the discipline but also understand their historical development. However, undergraduate programs for chemistry teachers often neglect the training in the history of chemistry, which hinders future teachers from applying concepts in a historical context. This study examines the ability of Mozambican preservice chemistry teachers to assess the potential and limitations of analogies about atoms in their school textbooks. The results indicate that these teachers lack knowledge about the educational use of analogies and the historical evolution of atomic models. Therefore, integrating analogies into Chemical Education courses and introducing selected history of chemistry issues in undergraduate teacher education programs are recommended to better equip preservice teachers to handle historical analogical models of the atom.
SCIENCE & EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Davut Saritas, Hasan Ozcan, Agustin Aduriz-Bravo
Summary: This article proposes a model-based teaching approach to establish appropriate relations between different levels of chemical knowledge, aiming to address misconceptions in school chemistry. By examining the relations between observations and inferences with the guidance of philosophy, a new perspective is provided for understanding chemical concepts.
SCIENCE & EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Mathematics
Ana B. Montoro, Carmen Gloria Aguayo-Arriagada, Pablo Flores
Summary: The STEM approach to education has gained significant attention among teachers in recent years. While integrated proposals can be complex, many educators choose to implement textbook recommendations. A study on the common content of mathematics and science in primary school textbooks found similarities and differences in how mass and volume are addressed, with teaching objectives for mass aligning in the earliest grades, while inconsistencies were observed in volume measurement-related content.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Richard Brock, Kostas Kampourakis
Summary: Scientific teleological explanations use end states as causes to explain physical phenomena, but students may have illegitimate use of teleological explanations. This article proposes two criteria to determine the legitimacy of teleological explanations and introduces seven examples of constraint-based teleology in physics education. The article also discusses potential criticisms of the approach and proposes strategies for using legitimate teleological explanations in the physics classroom.
SCIENCE & EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Moti Mizrahi
Summary: Theoretical virtues play an important role in scientific practice, and empirical research shows that accuracy, consistency, and simplicity are the theoretical virtues that scientists invoke more frequently when discussing models, theories, and hypotheses.
BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Ertan Cetinkaya, Deniz Saribas
Summary: In a pandemic era, it is important to empower individuals to make informed decisions about health issues, especially viruses and vaccines. This study explores eighth graders' reasoning about vaccination through small group and plenary discussions of false claims. The findings suggest that involving well-informed students in discussions can positively impact other students' reasoning and that scientific knowledge and argumentation are crucial for further research on students' reasoning about vaccination.
SCIENCE & EDUCATION
(2023)
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alexandra Witze
Summary: Engineers need to resolve tricky hydrogen leaks before launching the mega rocket and capsule.
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Marco Tamborini, Edoardo Datteri
Summary: This paper asks whether biorobotics can be considered as science, addressing the distinction between science and technoscience. It argues that technoscientific biorobotic studies focus on proximal hypotheses, while scientific biorobotic studies focus on distal hypotheses. The paper concludes by reflecting on the philosophical and disciplinary importance of seeing biorobotics as a science and/or technoscience for the bio-hybrid and technical world of the 21st century.
BIOINSPIRATION & BIOMIMETICS
(2023)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Nikil Mukerji, Edzard Ernst
Summary: This paper provides a systematic discussion on the recognition of homeopathy as pseudoscience. It explains the concept of pseudoscience, presents evidence from literature to support the view that homeopathy fits this classification, and highlights the reasons behind this classification.
