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 …

Over the past 10 years an increasing number of articles have been published in leading
science education journals that report on research about teacher identity and describe …

This paper examines the values of the CHE principles of C onnectivity, H umanness and E
mpathy as a guiding framework for maximizing the ethical and methodological advantages …

This paper distinguishes a series of contingent and necessary problems that arise in the
design, conduct, analysis and reporting of open-ended or conversational qualitative …

Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite 'proper'knowledge–it's too political
or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of 'proper'knowledge? Who defines …

The research reported here contributes to understanding how student engineers on an
engineering campus in the US mid-continent not only talked about the kinds of people …

JONATHAN POTTER is Professor of Discourse Analysis and Dean of the School of Social,
Political and Geographical Sciences at Loughborough University. He has studied racism …

Being reflexive and providing these reflections for public scrutiny is often considered a key
element of ethical, rigorous qualitative research. Prevalent conceptualizations of reflexivity …

Kvale and Brinkmann (2009: 48–50) introduce two metaphors for describing and contrasting
these two ways of obtaining knowledge. They distinguish between the interviewer as a …

Over the past few decades new ways of conceiving the relation between people, practices
and institutions have been developed, enabling an understanding of human conduct in …