A Research-Informed Instructional Unit to Teach the Nature of Science to Pre-Service Science Teachers

Autor/inn/en	Aduriz-Bravo, Agustin; Izquierdo-Aymerich, Merce
Titel	A Research-Informed Instructional Unit to Teach the Nature of Science to Pre-Service Science Teachers
Quelle	In: Science & Education, 18 (2009) 9, S.1177-1192 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0926-7220
DOI	10.1007/s11191-009-9189-3
Schlagwörter	Science Teachers; Gender Issues; Instructional Design; Preservice Teacher Education; Scientific Principles; Education Courses; Preservice Teachers; Science Instruction; Units of Study; Science History; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Science; Teacher; Teachers; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Geschlechterfrage; Lesson concept; Lessonplan; Unterrichtsentwurf; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Fortbildungskurs; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Lerneinheit; History of science; Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	In this paper we discuss the foundations and process of design of a research-informed instructional unit aimed for pre-service science teacher education. The unit covers some key ideas on the nature of science (around methodology, theory change, scientific inference and explanation, values, gender issues) anchoring them in a well-known episode from the history of science--the "discovery" of radium by the Curies. Such episode is mainly examined as reconstructed in the 1997 French commercial film "Les Palmes de Monsieur Schutz". Pre-service science teachers are required to solve three tasks, individually and in small groups; those tasks are respectively centred around: (1) the distinction between "discovering" and "inventing"; (2) scientific modelling via abduction; and (3) the extended hagiographic treatment of the figure of Madame Curie. Plenary debates around the tasks aim at acquainting pre-service science teachers with some powerful concepts of twentieth century philosophy of science. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10