This review examines 105 empirical studies that investigate students' views of the nature of
science (VNOS), effects of curricular interventions on changing students' VNOS, and …

La didáctica de las ciencias promueve hoy la presencia explícita de la naturaleza de la
ciencia en el currículo de ciencias, aportando diversos motivos para ello. Este artículo se …

Dialogic: Education for the Internet Age argues that despite rapid advances in
communications technology, most teaching still relies on traditional approaches to …

Helping students develop informed views of nature of science (NOS) has been and
continues to be a central goal for kindergarten through Grade 12 (K–12) science education …

The title of this chapter deliberately includes two terms-scientific literacy and science literacy,
abbreviated together as SL. The literature on SL has mushroomed in the past two decades …

What is engineering? What do engineers do? How is engineering related to, but distinct
from, science? These questions all relate to the nature of engineering (NOE), and as …

Recent arguments in science education have proposed that school science should pay
more attention to teaching the nature of science and its social practices. However, unlike the …

Conclusions This chapter has explored the dynamic arena of the nature of science by
examining both its history and ways that the nature of science has informed and should …

This book provides a comprehensive overview of humanistic approaches to science.
Approaches that connect students to broader human concerns in their everyday life and …

Two fundamental questions about science are relevant for science educators:(a) What is the
nature of science? and (b) what aspects of nature of science should be taught and learned …