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Designing Courses on the Nature and History of Science
Leyh, Bernard; Avitabile, Gustavo; Kelly, Orla
2015In Maciejowska, Iwona; Byers, Bill (Eds.) A Guidebook of Good Practice for the Pre-Service Training of Chemistry Teachers
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Keywords :
Nature of Science; History of Science; Chemical education; Didactics of chemistry; Scientific literacy
Abstract :
[en] Achieving scientific literacy is recognized as an essential goal of secondary school education. This obviously implies that science teachers, themselves, need to be scientifically literate, which in turn requires that emphasis should be placed on Nature of Science (NoS) issues in university pre-service (and also in-service) teacher education courses. A review of the research literature reveals that the beliefs and the understanding of teachers about NoS are often simplistic and lacking internal consistency. Research has also shown that explicit approaches towards NoS teaching are more efficient than implicit ones, and that analysis of historic cases can be an effective teaching tool. Based on an analysis of the existing literature and on their teaching experience, the authors propose a NoS curriculum for pre-service science teachers in chemistry, biology and physics and critically discuss a case example of NoS teaching practice consisting of four weekly seminars of two hours each. These seminars focus on identifying the learners’ preconceptions through team work, on discussing explicitly key NoS concepts and epistemological theories based on an inductive approach, and on highlighting the pedagogical implications. Suggestions for teaching the history of science (with emphasis on chemistry) are also provided.
Disciplines :
Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Education & instruction
Author, co-author :
Leyh, Bernard  ;  Université de Liège > Département de chimie (sciences) > Laboratoire de dynamique moléculaire
Avitabile, Gustavo;  University Federico II, Naples (Italy)
Kelly, Orla;  The Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin (Ireland)
Language :
English
Title :
Designing Courses on the Nature and History of Science
Publication date :
2015
Main work title :
A Guidebook of Good Practice for the Pre-Service Training of Chemistry Teachers
Editor :
Maciejowska, Iwona
Byers, Bill
Publisher :
Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland
ISBN/EAN :
978-83-943754-0-9
Pages :
221-246
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Name of the research project :
European Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Education Network 2 (EC2E2N) - 526259-LLP-1-2012-1-FR-. ERASMUS-ENW.
Funders :
European Community's Lifelong Learning Programme (EAC/27/11)
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