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Kind, Per; Osborne, Jonathan – Science Education, 2017
In this paper, we contend that what to teach about scientific reasoning has been bedeviled by a lack of clarity about the construct. Drawing on the insights emerging from a cognitive history of science, we argue for a conception of scientific reasoning based on six "styles of scientific reasoning." Each "style" requires its own…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Epistemology
Fishman, Evan J.; Borko, Hilda; Osborne, Jonathan; Gomez, Florencia; Rafanelli, Stephanie; Reigh, Emily; Tseng, Anita; Million, Susan; Berson, Eric – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2017
Considerable evidence suggests that dialogical interaction in the classroom promotes students' scientific knowledge building and reasoning. Hence, scientific argumentation is recognized as a central component of the Next Generation Science Standards. A focus on argumentation, however, requires teachers to adopt instructional practices that…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Process Skills
Osborne, Jonathan – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2014
This paper provides a rationale for the changes advocated by the Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards. It provides an argument for why the model embedded in the Next Generation Science Standards is seen as an improvement. The Case made here is that the underlying model that the new Framework presents of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Instruction, State Standards, Elementary Secondary Education
Henderson, J. Bryan; MacPherson, Anna; Osborne, Jonathan; Wild, Andrew – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This paper argues that science education has overemphasized the importance of construction at the expense of critique. In doing so, it draws on two key premises--Ford's argument that the construction of knowledge requires a dialectic between construction and critique and Mercier and Sperber's theory of argumentative reasoning that critique is…
Descriptors: Role, Science Education, Epistemology, Literacy
DeWitt, Jennifer; Archer, Louise; Osborne, Jonathan – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
Students' engagement with science and the numbers pursuing further study of science continue to be a concern among policy-makers, particularly in Western countries. Previous research reflects that most children have positive attitudes to science at age 10 but that, by age 14, attitudes towards and interest in further pursuit of science have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Surveys, Scientific Attitudes, Science Careers
Christodoulou, Andri; Osborne, Jonathan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
Current science education research and policy highlight the need to conceptualize scientific disciplines not only based on a view of "science-as-knowledge" but also on a perspective of "science-as-practice," placing an emphasis on practices such as explanation, argumentation, modeling, and communication. However, classroom…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Process Skills, Persuasive Discourse, Epistemology
Osborne, Jonathan – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2007
This paper argues that the dominant form of science education that is common across the world rests on a set of values that have no merit. Moreover, such practice has a negative impact on students' attitudes to science. It makes the case that the primary goal of any science education should be to develop scientific literacy and explores what that…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Education, Scientific Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Chin, Christine; Osborne, Jonathan – Studies in Science Education, 2008
Students' questions play an important role in meaningful learning and scientific inquiry. They are a potential resource for both teaching and learning science. Despite the capacity of students' questions for enhancing learning, much of this potential still remains untapped. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to examine and review the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Questioning Techniques, Science Instruction, Inquiry
Simon, Shirley; Erduran, Sibel; Osborne, Jonathan – International Journal of Science Education, 2006
The research reported in this study focuses on an investigation into the teaching of argumentation in secondary science classrooms. Over a 1-year period, a group of 12 teachers from schools in the greater London area attended a series of workshops to develop materials and strategies to support the teaching of argumentation in scientific contexts.…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Research and Development, Workshops, Persuasive Discourse
Osborne, Jonathan; Erduran, Sibel; Simon, Shirley – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
The research reported in this study focuses on the design and evaluation of learning environments that support the teaching and learning of argumentation in a scientific context. The research took place over 2 years, between 1999 and 2001, in junior high schools in the greater London area. The research was conducted in two phases. In phase 1,…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Experimental Groups, Science Teachers, Persuasive Discourse
Chin, Christine; Osborne, Jonathan – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
This study explores how student-generated questions can support argumentation in science. Students were asked to discuss which of two graphs showing the change in temperature with time when ice is heated to steam was correct. Four classes of students, aged 12-14 years, from two countries, first wrote questions about the phenomenon. Then, working…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Questioning Techniques, Classroom Communication, Case Studies
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Duschl, Richard A.; Osborne, Jonathan – Studies in Science Education, 2002
Explores the research on argumentation in science education by focusing on two questions: (1) what should constitute argumentation?; and (2) what does research say about classroom conditions that promote, nurture, and sustain argumentation practices among students? Discusses possible barriers to argumentation and foundational frameworks and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Inquiry
Bartholomew, Hannah; Osborne, Jonathan; Ratcliffe, Mary – Science Education, 2004
In this paper, we report work undertaken with a group of 11 UK teachers over a period of a year to teach aspects of the nature of science, its process, and its practices. The teachers, who taught science in a mix of elementary, junior high, and high schools, were asked to teach a set of "ideas-about-science" for which consensual support…
Descriptors: Diaries, Delphi Technique, Science Teachers, Scientific Principles