The chapter sets out the agenda for the entire book. The primary aim is to illustrate the
context for the articulation of how “Nature of Science”(NOS) can be conceptualized and …

No presente artigo, discute-se a construção epistemológica da Educação em Ciência como
área interdisciplinar que integra, por apropriações e transposições educacionais, campos …

Wenn man sich fragt, wie alles angefangen hat, wie und mit welchen Ideen und
Veröffentlichungen konstruktivistische Autoren zunächst Aufmerksamkeit erzeugt haben …

This paper aims at shedding light on what students can “construct” when they learn science
and how this construction process may be supported. Constructivism is a pluralist theory of …

Occam's razor—the principle of simplicity—has recently been attacked as a cultural bias
without rational foundation. Increasingly, belief in pseudoscience and mysticism is growing. I …

Many contemporary constructivists are particularly attuned to Dewey's penetrating criticism
of traditional epistemology, which offers rich alternatives for understanding processes of …

Ever since we wrote a paper () on the constructivist theory of knowledge for the Journal,
fifteen years ago, chemists and chemical educators have asked: Do you really believe in the …

In an 8-month teaching experiment, I investigated how 4 sixth-grade students reasoned with
reversible multiplicative relationships. One type of problem involved a known quantity that …

We contend that science education should be multicultural. We do not believe a universalist
view of science is either compatible with a multicultural approach or fully coherent as a …

Ülkemizde bilim ve teknolojideki gelişmelere ayak uydurabilmek için fen öğretiminin
gerekliliğinin farkına varılmış, fen öğretim programının içeriğini ve felsefesinde …