The prospective virtues of using history and philosophy of science in science teaching have
been pronounced for decades. Recently, a role for nature of science in supporting scientific …

By convention, school science has traditionally aimed to prepare students for the next level
of science courses, ultimately funnelling students into careers associated with science and …

Individuals are increasingly relying on social media as their primary source of scientific
information. Science education needs to adapt. Nature of science (NOS) education is …

Epistemic practices are the socially organized and interactionally accomplished ways that
members of a group propose, communicate, assess, and legitimize knowledge claims …

Engineering offers new educational opportunities for students, yet also poses challenges
about how to conceptualize the disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science …

In a seminal volume of Studies in Science Education, Maddock (1981) proposed'that
science and science education are cultural enterprises which form a part of the wider …

This book provides a comprehensive overview of humanistic approaches to science.
Approaches that connect students to broader human concerns in their everyday life and …

This article presents and discusses preliminary research on a new heuristic tool for learning
from laboratory activities in secondary science. The tool, called the science writing heuristic …

In this study we examined the discourse components, interaction patterns, and reasoning
complexity of 4 groups of 12 Grade 8 students in 2 science classrooms as they constructed …

Abstract This article explores First Nations (Native American) science education from a
cultural perspective. Science is recognized as a subculture of Western culture. Scientific and …