This review examines 105 empirical studies that investigate students' views of the nature of
science (VNOS), effects of curricular interventions on changing students' VNOS, and …

Hel** students develop informed views of nature of science (NOS) has been and
continues to be a central goal for kindergarten through Grade 12 (K–12) science education …

The title of this chapter deliberately includes two terms-scientific literacy and science literacy,
abbreviated together as SL. The literature on SL has mushroomed in the past two decades …

Recent arguments in science education have proposed that school science should pay
more attention to teaching the nature of science and its social practices. However, unlike the …

The chapter sets out the agenda for the entire book. The primary aim is to illustrate the
context for the articulation of how “Nature of Science”(NOS) can be conceptualized and …

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

Conclusions This chapter has explored the dynamic arena of the nature of science by
examining both its history and ways that the nature of science has informed and should …

Dialogic: Education for the Internet Age argues that despite rapid advances in
communications technology, most teaching still relies on traditional approaches to …

The purpose of this investigation was to explicate the role of the nature of science in
decision making on science and technology based issues and to delineate factors and …

After providing a definition of the nature of science (NOS) for science education, we argue
that a pragmatic consensus exists regarding NOS topics most important for a scientifically …