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Busra Aksöz; Ebru Kaya; Aysegül Çilekrenkli – Science & Education, 2025
This autoethnographic study is part of a funded project involving a school science teacher and university science education researchers. In this project, we incorporated nature of science (NOS) into the fifth-grade curriculum and implemented it for a semester at a public school in Turkey. We adopted Reconceptualized Family Resemblance Approach to…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Autobiographies, Ethnography, Reflective Teaching
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Can, Hatice Belge – Journal of Educational Issues, 2021
This research focuses on chemistry teachers' enacted pedagogical content knowledge (ePCK) in equilibrium in chemical reactions. The enactment dimension of this pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) encompasses enacted knowledge and skills as well as those embedded in practice concerning the Refined Consensus Model of PCK, the most recent PCK model…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Shi, Xiaoming – Science & Education, 2021
Adopting an explicit and reflective approach to the teaching of the history and philosophy of science is useful in promoting high school students' understanding of the nature of science. Whereas the history of science is usually signposted clearly in the school science curriculum, the philosophy of science is considered to be embedded in and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Science Instruction, Reflective Teaching
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Adler, Idit; Zion, Michal; Rimerman-Shmueli, Esther – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2019
This study examined teachers' expressions of the dynamic characteristics of open inquiry, which emphasize the scientific, continuous, and flexible thinking and affective aspects associated with the inquiry process. Metacognitive prompts supported teachers' reflections as they engaged in an open inquiry process. Using both qualitative and…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Cues, Metacognition, Active Learning
Cheung, K. C.; Toh, K. A. – 1990
This paper seeks to explore how beginning elementary school teachers (N=161) in Singapore conceive the scope and nature of science and to understand the relationship between those views and their present approach to, as well as their past experience of, science teaching and learning. Results of an inquiry into the teachers' views indicate that…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Jeanpierre, Bobby – Journal of Elementary Science Education, 2006
This article reports the results of a survey on K-8 teachers' inquiry beliefs and practices. The survey in this study was part of the National Science Foundation-supported, five-year, in-depth longitudinal case studies aimed at elucidating K-8 classroom teachers' motivations, goals, and purposes for carrying out inquiry in diverse, low SES…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Inquiry, Teacher Attitudes, Longitudinal Studies