Exploring Physics Teachers' NOTSs (Nature of the Sciences) Conceptions and Discussing Their Relation to the Current Domain-General NOS (Nature of Science) Agenda

Autor/inn/en	Schizas, Dimitrios; Psillos, Dimitris
Titel	Exploring Physics Teachers' NOTSs (Nature of the Sciences) Conceptions and Discussing Their Relation to the Current Domain-General NOS (Nature of Science) Agenda
Quelle	In: Electronic Journal of Science Education, 23 (2019) 2, S. 19-48 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1087-3430
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Test; Fragebogen; Foreign Countries; Scientific Literacy; Knowledge Level; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Scientific Principles; Misconceptions; World Views; Physics; Biology; Epistemology; Secondary School Teachers; Greece + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Wissensbasis; Pädagogische Kompetenz; Missverständnis; World view; Weltanschauung; Physik; Biologie; Erkenntnistheorie; Griechenland
Abstract	The present study elaborates on a domain-specific approach to NOS (Nature Of Science) and employs a NOTSs (Nature Of The Sciences) agenda to investigate how Greek in-service physics teachers understand the unique features of school physics and biology. Our theoretical framework focuses on the notion of worldview and important differences that exist between the Newtonian and the neo-Darwinian worldviews, whereas our methodology involves questionnaires and mainly individual interviews. The empirical findings indicate that participants understand the nature of the sciences from the perspective of how they understand their own science and tend to share homogeneous NOTSs conceptions that mostly stem from how they have assimilated positivistic tenets. As a result, they have serious misunderstandings regarding (a) the nature of biology because they project upon biology epistemological characteristics that biology does not possess and (b) several NOS items because they erroneously consider domain-specific NOS (or NOTSs) conceptions to be domain-general and disregard important NOTSs conceptions that underpin the understanding of domain-general NOS items. The implications of all such findings for synergies that may exist between the NOTSs agenda and the current domain-general approach to NOS are also discussed. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Southwestern University and Texas Christian University. TCU Box 297900, Fort Worth, TX 76129. Tel: 817-257-6115; e-mail: ejse@southwestern.edu; Web site: http://ejse.southwestern.edu
Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01