Review
Education & Educational Research
Licui Chen, Sihan Xiao
Summary: This paper reviews the literature on how science teachers teach socioscientific issues, finding that teachers generally have a partially informed understanding of SSI-based teaching. Teachers face various challenges in teaching SSIs and lack explicit strategies to cope with them, indicating a need for more support and collaborative efforts to improve teaching quality.
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH REVIEW
(2021)
Biographical-Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ehsan Masood
Summary: This is about the materials scientist behind Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.
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
Education & Educational Research
Charles R. Ault
Summary: Science educators are faced with the choice of either emphasizing the unity of science and teaching accordingly, or accepting the diversity of disciplines, teaching the value of different scientific fields in solving social problems, and cultivating trust.
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
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
Vesna D. Milanovic, Dragica D. Trivic
Summary: Most chemistry teachers recognized some characteristics of the nature of science, but there was a divergence in attitudes towards including more topics from history and philosophy of science in classes. Teachers who had attended courses in the history of science/chemistry displayed more positive attitudes, while those aged 31-40 and with 6-15 years of work experience showed the least positive attitudes towards many variables.
JOURNAL OF EDUCATION FOR TEACHING
(2022)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Francesco Di Giacomo
Summary: The Timaeus is a highly influential dialogue by Plato that discusses celestial motion theory, the structure of matter, and introduces the concept of intertransformability of elementary corpuscles, marking the first chemical reactions in history. Plato uses geometric interpretations to describe Empedocles' elements and atomism at molecular, atomic, and sub-atomic levels in a pioneering manner. The chemical reactions in Timaeus are written in enlightening chemical symbolism, showing analogies with modern chemistry.
FOUNDATIONS OF CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Sara Green, Hanne Andersen, Kristian Danielsen, Claus Emmeche, Christian Joas, Mikkel Willum Johansen, Caio Nagayoshi, Joeri Witteveen, Henrik Kragh Sorensen
Summary: This paper discusses the importance of adapting philosophy of science teaching to different audiences of science students, and highlights the benefits of using research in science education to inform curriculum design. It also emphasizes the relevance and engagement of philosophy of science to science students by considering their potential career trajectories.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
(2021)
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)
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
History & Philosophy Of Science
Sybren Heyndels
Summary: P.F. Strawson made significant contributions to various philosophical domains, particularly in the philosophy of language and logic. While his views have influenced contemporary debates, his philosophy of logic has been rarely discussed. This paper provides a systematic account of Strawson's philosophy of logic and argues that he is an important predecessor of logical expressivism. It also highlights the need for clarifications in his position.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Cicek Dilek Bakanay, Mustafa Cakir
Summary: This qualitative study examined teachers' science teaching orientations (STO) and their purposes for integrating the history of science (HOS) into their teaching using newly developed instructional materials. The results showed that teachers failed to relate HOS with nature of science (NOS) principles and had different purposes for integrating HOS. Only reformist teachers were able to integrate HOS for epistemological purposes, while traditional teachers used HOS as interesting stories of famous scientists.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Maayan Schvartzer, Michael Elazar, Shulamit Kapon
Summary: This paper emphasizes the use of historical case studies to teach physics, helping students understand the importance of mathematical tools and representations in scientific inquiry. By reproducing Galileo's experimental notes, it sparked discussions and reflections on the meanings and implications of mathematical representations in learning and doing physics.
SCIENCE & EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mageswary Karpudewan, Pavitra Krishnan, Mohd Norawi Ali, Lay Yoon Fah
Summary: The Malaysian government's initiative to reform segmented teaching through STEM education policies has inspired this study, which aims to explore Malaysian science and mathematics teachers' perceptions of STEM teaching and develop a questionnaire to measure explanatory factors. Teacher's knowledge of interdisciplinary strategies, challenges in STEM teaching practices, and self-efficacy beliefs were identified as factors explaining STEM teaching practices.Following qualitative findings, a 33-item questionnaire was developed and validated, resulting in a final version consisting of 23 items. The findings of this study are expected to benefit STEM advocates and educators globally.