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| Science Education | 1 |
| Scientific Attitudes | 1 |
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Peer reviewedClough, Michael P. – Interchange, 1997
Argues that the greatest barrier to science education is overcoming students' naive conceptions of science. Recommends helping students to maintain a sense of dissatisfaction with their archaic notions of the nature of science, essentially a philosophical sense of the difficulty of the problems involved. (SM)
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Science Education, Scientific Attitudes, Scientific Concepts
