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Epistemological and Didactic Reflections on Teacher Training in France: Promoting Nature of Science with Children's Literature
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Mohamed Soudani – Science & Education, 2024
The professionalization of teachers is a fundamental and decisive issue for all education systems. This text presents a qualitative research on an original experiment in training future primary school teachers in the nature of science (NOS) and its transposition into teaching practice. It is a script for reading the children's book, "7 souris…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Teacher Education Programs, Elementary School Teachers, Scientific Principles
Cell Membrane Potential Model Circuit Lab
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Kutzner, Mickey D.; Bryson, Michael – Physics Teacher, 2018
There remains a strong movement for Introductory Physics for Life Sciences (IPLS) courses to better integrate physics and biology. Part of the challenge for IPLS educators is to introduce fundamental physical law while simultaneously establishing the relevance of physics to biological science. Life science relevant laboratory experiences are…
Descriptors: Physics, Biological Sciences, Science Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
Development and Dissemination of a Teaching Learning Sequence on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in a Context of Communities of Learners
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Stavrou, Dimitris; Michailidi, Emily; Sgouros, Giannis – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
Introducing Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NST) topics into school science curricula is considered useful for an in-depth understanding of the content, processes and nature of science and technology, and also for negotiating the social aspects of science. This study examines (a) the development of an inquiry-based Teaching-Learning Sequence (TLS)…
Descriptors: Sequential Learning, Chemistry, Models, Communities of Practice
Modeling Evolution in the Classroom: The Case of Fukushima's Mutant Butterflies
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Lark, Amy; Richmond, Gail; Pennock, Robert T. – American Biology Teacher, 2014
New science standards and reform recommendations spanning grades K--16 focus on a limited set of key scientific concepts from each discipline that all students should know. They also emphasize the integration of these concepts with science practices so that students learn not only the "what" of science but also the "how" and…
Descriptors: Evolution, Classroom Techniques, Case Studies, Scientific Concepts
Expanding Views of Creative Science: A Response to Ghassib's Productivist Industrial Model
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Ambrose, Don – Gifted and Talented International, 2010
It was refreshing to read Hisham Ghassib's (2010) article outlining his model of scientific knowledge production. Too few scholarly writings in creative studies and gifted education deal with issues at the large-scale, panoramic level of analysis. Ghassib (2010) would not disappoint Albert Einstein who lamented that "I have little patience with…
Descriptors: Creativity, Gifted, Scientific Enterprise, Reader Response
The Nature of Science. A Personal View of Science and How It Has Shaped the Way We Think and Behave.
Aicken, Frederick – 1984
Designed to provide a broader and more encompassing approach to science studies, this book contains perspectives on science and its impact on culture. It consists of a series of discrete essays which focus on the interaction of science with religion, philosophy, and lifestyle. Each essay begins with a series of quotations and questions which are…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Models, Philosophy, Science and Society