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Simon F. Kraus – Science & Education, 2024
Observation is widely regarded as a fundamental way of studying nature. However, due to its complexity, proposing a comprehensive characterization is challenging. Observation is a method of studying nature that can be divided into several dimensions. Each of these dimensions can be presented as a pair of terms, which are elaborated in this paper…
Descriptors: Observation, Science Education, Science Process Skills, Epistemology
Kara C. Oatman; Nancy A. Price – American Biology Teacher, 2024
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) engage students in the epistemic, or knowledge building, components of science through three-dimensional learning. Each scientific domain has its own epistemic aspects that result from different social groups going about science in different ways to conceptualize different bodies of knowledge; education…
Descriptors: Science Education, Biological Sciences, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship
Noah Weeth Feinstein; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
This theoretical paper focuses on the social processes of public engagement with science and their implications for science education. The core of our argument is that science education should help people become better at evaluating, using, and curating their epistemic networks to make personal and civic decisions and to understand the natural…
Descriptors: Science Education, Epistemology, Networks, Misinformation
Brock, Richard; Kampourakis, Kostas – Science & Education, 2023
Scientific teleological explanations cite end states as causes to account for physical phenomena. Researchers in science education have noted that students can use teleological explanations in ways that are illegitimate, for example, by implying that inanimate objects are acting intentionally. Despite such cases, several examples of legitimate…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Epistemology, Philosophy
Jennifer Löfgreen – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2023
Although there is ample literature that explores what SoTL is and offers guidelines on how to do SoTL, we have not paid enough attention to the fundamental assumptions that underpin systematic scholarly inquiry itself, regardless of the context or the object of study. Instead, we seem to have a narrative that relates SoTL to the disciplines and/or…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, Science Education
Paul Engelschalt; Tom Bielik; Moritz Krell; Dirk Krüger; Annette Upmeier zu Belzen – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
The development of metaknowledge about models (MKM) and metaknowledge about the modelling process (MKP) are important in pre-service science teachers (PSTs) education. MKM refers to knowledge about the model's entities and its purposes, while MKP refers to knowledge about the components and structure of the modelling process. Assessing MKM and MKP…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Epistemology, Models
Beatrice Dias – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2024
In this forum paper, I grapple with critical questions about our understanding of science as a discipline and the education standards formulated within that framing. My exploration is contextualized in our current socio-political climate and is presented in discourse with Charity Winburn's "Meeting the needs of the individual student in the…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Science Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Academic Standards
Tan, Michael; Koh, Teck Seng – Science Education, 2023
In considering goals for science education, it is conventional to make arguments for the utility of scientific knowledge for a variety of purposes. Less prominent are rationales based on the beauty or truth of science. In this paper, we examine how an approach to science education might be different if we shift the goals of communication to an…
Descriptors: Science Education, Classroom Communication, Knowledge Level, Evidence
Ezgi Yesilyurt; Hasan Deniz; Erdogan Kaya – Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Background: Since the advent of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), there has been an increasing focus on engineering in K-12 education. As educators and researchers have gained a better understanding of the nature of engineering in the decade following the release of the NGSS, there are new opportunities for growth and complexity.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Standards, Science Education, Engineering Education
Roth, Wolff-Michael – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2021
The core epistemologies underlying science education have changed little over the past 40 years: whereas science educators tend to take constructivist stances, many or most teachers tend to be concerned with the appropriation and transfer of facts and theories mandated as outcomes in the curriculum guidelines of the relevant authorities (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Epistemology, Science Education, Educational Philosophy
Jessica Watkins; Natalie A. De Lucca; Serena R. Pao – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Preservice secondary science teachers often experience science learning in narrow and marginalizing ways in their science preparation. These experiences cause harm, particularly for preservice teachers of color. They also limit the disciplinary resources they can develop for later teaching science in ways that value and sustain their students'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Science Education
Ying-Chih Chen; Michelle Jordan; Jongchan Park; Emily Starrett – Science Education, 2024
An essential aspect of scientific practice involves grappling with the generation of predictions, representations, interpretations, investigations, and communications related to scientific phenomena, all of which are inherently permeated with uncertainty. Transferring this practice from expert settings to the classroom is invaluable yet…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Science Process Skills, Ambiguity (Context)
Madeline L. Nyblade; Stephen J. Smith; Elizabeth Sumida Huaman – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2024
Indigenous communities at ground zero for extractive industry, industrial pollution, and climate change battle extant development agendas under coloniality that drive cycles of consumption. In this scheme bolstered by neoliberal policies, stewarding biocultural diversity is a clarion call and heavy responsibility for Indigenous community members…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Science Education, Biodiversity, Cultural Pluralism
Tovar-Gálvez, Julio César – Science Education, 2023
Intercultural teaching practices for science education (ITPSE) are suitable to support science teachers in bringing cultural inclusion into their classrooms. The epistemological bridge is the base of the ITPSE design since this approach describes culturally inclusive teaching of science. There is an ITPSE of planning and one of enactment. With…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Inclusion, Multicultural Education, Science Education
Winkelmann, Jan – Science & Education, 2023
Idealizations are omnipresent in science. However, to date, science education research has paid surprisingly little attention to the use of idealizations in fostering students' model competence and understanding of the nature of science (NOS). The starting point for the theoretical reflection in this paper is that insufficient consideration of…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Educational Research, Science Instruction