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Eshach, Haim; Hwang, Fu-Kwun; Wu, Hsin-Kai; Hsu, Ying-Shao – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
Although there is a broad agreement among scientists and science educators that students should not only learn science, but also acquire some sense of its nature, it has been reported that undergraduate students possess an inadequate grasp of the nature of science (NOS). The study presented here examined the potential and effectiveness of Nobel…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, College Science, Story Telling
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Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lederman, Norman G. – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
This study explores the relationship, if any, between an individual's culturally based worldviews and conceptions of nature of science. In addition, the implications of this relationship (or lack of relationship) for science teaching and learning are discussed. Participants were 54 Taiwanese prospective science teachers. Their conceptions of…
Descriptors: World Views, Scientific Enterprise, Science Curriculum, Science Teachers